Expansion plans at the Port of Walvis Bay in Namibia have been ‘put on hold’ after the Namibian Ports Authority (Namport) cancelled the N$3bn (US$ 365,000) engineering, procurement and construction...

Cavotec has won two large orders for electrical power and spreader cable reels for ship-to-shore (STS) container cranes for ports in the Netherlands and Malaysia.

Manta Port Authority (APM) has extended by three months its tender deadline for the concession to manage public port services at the multipurpose deep-water terminal in the Port of Manta...

Starting today (31 July) Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR) is introducing new direct short-sea calls between Hamburg and Casablanca, as well as between Lisbon and Hamburg. In addition, there will be new...

Omar Suleiman, managing director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) was unexpectedly dismissed from his job this week by President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Port of Melbourne, Australasia’s busiest container and general cargo port, saw its trade surge ahead in the financial year 2011-2012 with a 9.1% overall increase; total port trade grew...

Terex Port Solutions has received orders for automated container-handling systems from APM Terminals and Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) to equip the new container terminals on the Maasvlakte II site in...

Israel and China have signed an historic co-operation agreement to build the Eilat railway line and other future projects, including the inland canal port north of Eilat.

Maersk Line will remain a client of Terminal 18 at the Port of Seattle thanks to the recent renewal of its agreement with terminal operator SSA.

The requirement for 100% of US bound containers to be scanned before reaching the US still remains a requirement of the law passed by Congress in 2007, although the Department...