The Georgia Ports Authority has announced the sale of 500 acres of property for commercial development to accommodate growing customer demand for warehousing, distribution and transload facilities near the Port of Savannah.

At the end of December 2016 Bedeschi successfully fulfilled the commissioning of a three tower design ship loader with a design rate of 6,000tph to provide ship loading from 50,000dwt up to 180,000dwt vessels. The coal terminal plant of CMT, Convent Marine Terminal, is located on the Mississippi river near Convent (Louisiana) and it is owned since 2015 by SunCoke Energy.

Global engineering group Cavotec has been awarded significant orders for its innovative systems for marine propulsion, shore power supply, and crane electrification systems, with a combined value of EUR 10 million, highlighting the Group's pivotal position in the global Ports & Maritime segment.

TTS Group ASA has, through its 100% owned subsidiary TTS Marine AB, entered into an agreement for sale of its subsidiary TTS Liftec Oy in Finland, to Novatech ApS in Denmark.

Last year Liebherr Maritime Cranes delivered nine mobile harbour cranes, four reachstackers, three rail mounted gantry cranes and one ship-to-shore container crane to various Italian ports.

South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) announced an all-time record container volume of nearly 105,000 pier containers and 185,018 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) handled in January.

Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd are announcing a slot purchase agreement for Hamburg Süd's volumes on the East-West trades to be shipped on vessels in the 2M network.

Contship Italia's Maritime Container Terminal business saw an increase of 109,000 TEUs in overall handling volumes in 2016, welcoming 6,888 vessel calls, up 4% year on year.

DP World Limited handled 63.7 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the full year of 2016, with gross container volumes growing by 3.2% year-on-year on a reported basis, and 2.2% on a like-for-like basis, which compares favourably to the industry estimated growth of 1.3% for 2016.

The Port of Algeciras has reached its goal for 2016 by breaking the 100-million tonne barrier for total throughput in one year.