This agreement was made during Oceanology International the world's largest marine exhibition, featuring over 500 exhibitors from 30 different countries.

The surplus of exports over imports topped NZD269 million and is seen as a positive sign. However, all was not yet calm as the Ports of Auckland needed a NZD50 million boost from its owner Auckland Regional Holdings during the year to help it repay a bank loan in December.

With commissioning planned for May and handover by June 2020, the crane will handle general, heavylift & project cargo and expand the terminal’s container handling capacity.

It is also the world's largest electrically- operated Liebherr port handling machine with gantry undercarriage as well as the largest port handling machine Liebherr has ever produced.

The Port of Savannah moved 4.6 million twenty-foot equivalent container units in Calendar Year 2019, an increase of nearly 250,000 TEUs (5.6 percent) compared to the previous year, Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) Executive Director Griff Lynch announced recently.

Newly published Port of Gothenburg freight figures for 2019 showed that container volumes at the Port of Gothenburg rose for the second year in succession.

Cordero was introduced by Long Beach Harbour Commission President Bonnie Lowenthal in front of an audience of more than 750 industry partners, community members and civic leaders gathered at the Long Beach Convention Center Grand Ballroom.As a leader in environmental sustainability and community engagement, Lowenthal said the port is poised to have a prosperous 2020 despite dramatic changes within the goods movement industry.

The Navis project was part of a full terminal modernisation effort to help take them from a manual terminal down a path of implementing more automated and data-driven services to increase terminal capacity and strengthen the terminal’s operational performance. Located in Ecuador, YILPORT Puerto Bolivar handles over 150,000 TEUs and one million tons of break bulk annually and has been growing steadily over the past several years.

Welcoming delegates to a week-long workshop intended to share knowledge and best practice of IMO regulations and to boost Caribbean maritime co-operation, the Director General of the MAJ, Rear Admiral (ret’d) Peter Brady said: “Full and complete implementation of our treaty obligations require incorporating international maritime legislation in domestic law and investing in adequate human resources and facilities.

The ship was in ballast and had to remain at anchor until January 14 before leaving two days later for Japan with a cargo of 170,000 tonnes of iron ore from the IOC Rio Tinto company. Built in 2016, the 300-metre-long bulk carrier has a total cargo capacity of 209,113 tonnes. The ship is owned by the Oldendorff Carriers company and is operated by a crew of 25 sailors.