Dover Harbour Board have today advertised a Harbour Revision Order (HRO) seeking further modernising powers. It will forever embed the power for the Board to appoint two community directors, which in turn will strengthen the links between the Port and its community as envisaged in the Ministerial statement made in April 2014.

Global engineering group Cavotec has won orders for its innovative technologies for ports in Australia, Indonesia, Oman, Portugal and Turkey, and for two major shipping lines, with a combined value of more than EUR 11.5 million.

The world's largest container ship, the 19,100 TEU CSCL Globe, has made its maiden call at the Port of Felixstowe in the United Kingdom. The ship is operated by China Shipping Container Line on its AEX1 (Asia Europe Express) service with the port of Felixstowe its first port of call in Europe.

Konecranes has been awarded a contract for their first Boxhunter RTG deal. The customer, CGM, located in South-East Asia, has developed an exciting new kind of business concept involving the Boxhunter.

It has been reported by Reuters that at the end of 2014 the consortium led by Spanish-builder Sacyr won a USD 233 million settlement in a dispute over cost overruns for the expansion works for the new Panama Canal. This is half what the group had been seeking in the lawsuit.

Konecranes has been awarded a repeat order for 3 Rail Mounted Gantry (RMG) cranes from Haifa Port Company in Israel.

International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has announced the appointment of Anders Dommestrup as Chief Executive Officer of its Australian subsidiary, Victoria International Container Terminal Ltd.

The 18,300 TEU Triple E-Class Marstal Maersk became the largest vessel to call at the new APM Terminals Maasvlakte II expansion in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The vessel arrived on Monday morning January 5th as part of the testing phase prior to regular weekly calls starting in February. The vessel is 399mlong and 59m wide and sails in Maersk Line's AE10 Asia/Europe service with the next port call in APM Terminals Tangier, Morocco.

Accenture has launched a Ports Center of Excellence in Hong Kong which is focused on providing terminal operators with process excellence and technology implementation for performance management, operations management and enterprise management.