The Port of Ashdod will increase its storage space by 20% to around 500,000 containers after it approved plans to increase stack heights to six empty boxes. The increase will...

Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) recorded a 6% growth in total volumes in the first half of the year, handling 3.27m teu. The carrier's parent company, Orient Overseas (International) Limited...

American President Lines (APL) has launched a weekly  Japan-Russia service, which it claims is the only of its kind currently available. The Japan Russia Express (JRX) will be jointly operated...

Container throughput at the Port of Rotterdam increased by 6.2% in the first half of 2018 as the facility recorded growth for the fifth consecutive half-year. Rotterdam handled 7.1m teu...

Eurotainer US, Inc. has chosen APM Terminals (APMT) Inland Services Argentina as the exclusive agent for the sales and marketing of its tank container leasing services in the South American...

Konecranes port solutions sector reported a mixed half-year as orders fell by 10.2% year-on-year to €456.9m (US$534.9m) while both the order book and sales grew. Orders suffered due to an 11.8%...

DP World has signed a concession agreement with the Republic of Mali to build and operate a 1,000 ha logistics hub outside the country's capital, Bamako. The Mali Logistics Hub...

UAE-based operator DP World handled 35.6m teu in the first half of 2018, translating to 6% year-on-year growth on a gross, like-for-like basis. All three regions in DP World’s portfolio -...

Six container vessels were victims of piracy attacks or attempted attacks in the first half of 2018, one less compared to the same period in 2017. Two attempted attacks occurred off...

Equipment manufacturer Liebherr has shipped a mobile crane to Chittagong in Bangladesh, with the Irish company utilising the Port of Sunderland once again for exports. Liebherr has been manufacturing cranes...