The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Frank Verhoeven as the new President of the IADC Board of Directors.

At the beginning of the New Year, BPA Chief Executive Richard Ballantyne has outlined the association's key priorities for 2017.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will hold a joint community workshop on 24 January to gather input on strategies released late last year to update the Clean Air Action Plan, or CAAP.

Slowed by industry headwinds and challenges that included a major customer declaring bankruptcy, the Port of Long Beach still moved almost 6.8 million containers in 2016, its fifth best year ever.

The Port of Virginia set a new annual record for container cargo volume having handled more than 2.65 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, a 4.2 percent increase over last year's total.

The consortium consisting of Van Oord and Urbinveste – Promoção e Projectos Imobiliários, S.A. has been awarded the contract for the design and construction of the Marginal da Corimba project in Luanda, Angola.

The Ministry of Transport (MOT) and PSA Corporation has signed agreements with two automotive companies, Scania and Toyota Tsusho, to design, develop and test-bed an autonomous truck platooning system for use on Singapore's public roads.

BIMCO is seeking to drive the improvement of standards for ships at dry bulk terminals across the world and has launched its first report on terminal performance.

Dynamar has issued the latest, 14th edition of its annual Top 25 Container Liner Operators publication. It offers an exclusive insight into the world's largest container shipping companies, their history, nature, characters, developments, strategies, relationships and performances.

Tideworks Technology Inc, a full-service provider of comprehensive terminal management and planning software solutions, has announced that Crowley Maritime has gone live with Tideworks' terminal operating system (TOS) under CitadelMC, the newly branded SaaS model by Tideworks, at its Port Everglades Terminal in Florida.