The second of five highly efficient hydraulic cranes destined for Associated British Ports (ABP) facilities across the UK has arrived at ABP Swansea.

Jamaica launched its bid to be elected to Category 'C' of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council last Thursday (2 February) - in a move to position Jamaica as a 'viable maritime hub'.

Hyster Company has introduced two weighing systems that can be fitted to Hyster ReachStackers and Laden Container Handlers to obtain a Verified Gross Mass (VGM), as required by the recently introduced SOLAS Legislation.

Broward County's Port Everglades had a record-setting month in December 2016, logging 104,590 TEUs moving through the Port.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, will deliver two super-heavy forklift trucks to a specialist industrial services provider Pentti Hämeenaho Oy, which runs logistical operations at the Raahe steel mill in north-western Finland.

Kijlstra's factory at Henlade in Somerset has produced complex bespoke components for modernising and strengthening the existing middle slip jetty at Portsmouth Naval Base which will be capable of mooring the Royal Navy's new flagship, HMS Queen Elizabeth.

An EU co-funded CEF project with the snappy title Spanish/French Sustainable Atlantic Motorways of the seas Using as fuel for Engine LNG, or S/F SamueLNG for short, started on 13th December 2016, in Gijon, Spain.

A court in Seoul has ruled that after a two week appeal period the court receivership process of South Korean Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd has to formally end.

This morning (Thursday Feb 2), the Maersk Elba container ship (13,092 TEU) arrived at Haifa Port's state-of-the-art Carmel Terminal.

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The Port of Barcelona closed financial year 2016 with several new record figures in traffic, such as the volume of containerised foreign trade cargo (1,202,007 TEU - 20-foot container equivalent units), total vehicles (916,834 units) and passenger movements (3,958,960 passengers, counting ferries and cruise ships).