Drone attacks on two oil tankers in Novorossiysk raise alarms over Black Sea energy shipment security amid ongoing regional conflicts.

Puerto Cabello, Venezuela's busiest port, is in disrepair as a consortium seeks to reclaim its concession amid ongoing operational challenges.

Baku International Sea Trade Port reports a 37% increase in container throughput for 2025, reaching 105,000 TEU, bolstering Azerbaijan's transit role.

The Port of Oakland reports a 13.1% rise in container imports, marking 13 consecutive months of growth as it aims to reach pre-pandemic levels.

The Ministry of Treasury and Finance reveals plans to privatize Tekirdağ Çeşmeli Port Area, with bids accepted until March 25, 2026.

Residents near Taşucu Port call for pest control as strong odors from an Angus cattle shipment disrupt daily life.

Özata Shipyard signs a deal to build six advanced port control boats for the Ministry of Transport, enhancing maritime oversight capabilities.

Italian ports handled nearly 250 million tonnes of cargo in H1 2025, with container traffic up 2.6% and passenger numbers rising 5.8%.

Zonguldak Port Authority staff undergo vital first aid training to improve emergency response and safety measures at the port.

Ukrainian drone strikes caused significant damage to a port in Krasnodar, affecting infrastructure and halting operations amid rising tensions.

The Port of Vancouver's new system offers 96-hour notice for container ship arrivals, enhancing logistics and operational efficiency.

Thessaloniki Port Authority SA reported a 10

Singapore's port recorded its highest monthly container throughput of 2025 and the strongest bunker fuel sales in over 18 months, reports Saint Petersburg's PortNews

OREGON's Port of Coos Bay has received US

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THE death toll has risen to 70, with more than 1,000 injured, following the explosion at the Port of Shahid Rajaee in Bandar Abbas, Iran, reports the Associated Press

MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Co (MSC), the world's largest container line, has completed its buy-in into the port of Hamburg, radically changing the container port landscape in northern Europe in the process

CONTAINER volumes at Southern California's ports, the largest complex in the United States, remain down significantly for the year and in the latest monthly report, according to Fort Lauderdale's The Maritime Executive

HAROPA, the union of the French ports of Paris, Rouen and Le Havre, is to offer commercial rebates and tariff discounts to container shipping lines calling at Le Havre, in a bid to hold on to customers at a time when the nation's ports are being plagued by strikes organised by the CGT union in protest at President Macron's proposed pension system reform

THE Port of Long Beach has followed in the footsteps of the ports of Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Barcelona, Antwerp and Vancouver by joining the World Ports Climate Action Programme that reaffirms its commitment to the Paris Agreement

KALMAR, part of Cargotec, has signed a contract to supply a fully electric Ottawa T2e electric terminal tractor to Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) for a six-month demonstration period, with delivery slated for the first quarter of 2019

PORT of Virginia in Norfolk set a new annual throughput record in 2018 after handling 2

THE South Carolina Ports Authority has taken delivery of three additional ship-to-shore cranes with 155 feet of lift height that are to be installed at the port of Charleston, as part of a drive to further modernise operations, boost berth productivity and upgrade infrastructure to handle larger ships

GLOBAL Port Tracker expects a steady, but a less robust container volume growth through six northern European ports in the second half of 2011 after a disappointing first quarter.

LUZHOU, a river port in the southeast of Sichuan province, recorded a year-on-year decrease of five per cent in cargo to 5.33 million tonnes, Xinhua reports.

Maasvlakte 2 first stage delivered to client Port of Rotterdam Authority on April 17; on schedule, on budget and in accordance with the quality requirements specified.

IN January, major ports in southern China's Hainan province lifted a total of 8.73 million tonnes of cargo, which fell two per cent year on year. 

THE Association of Canadian Port Authorities' 56th Annual Conference will be held August 17 - 20 in Belledune, New Brunswick.

MANILA's International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) dry port, Laguna Gateway Inland Container Terminal (LGICT), broke ground to start its expansion.

THE new deep-water Baltic port of Bronka being built on the southern bank of the Gulf of Finland outside St Petersburg has taken delivery of two Liebherr STS P167 L (WS) container gantry cranes with a 51-metres boom, handling 18 containers across the deck.

THE Busan Port Authority (BPA) is on track to handle 20 million TEU of container cargo in 2016, which represents a 2.8 per cent increase from 2015, reports Rotterdam's World Maritime News.

INDIA's busiest container port Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) handled 58,376 TEU of imports via the direct port delivery (DPD) scheme in July, out of total import volume of 143,699 TEU, representing a 41

THE Port of Virginia's container throughput rose by eight per cent year on year in August to a record 258,821 TEU

THE Port of Long Beach has received preliminary approval for a US$50 million grant from the California Air Resources Board for a sweeping, transformative demonstration of a near-zero and zero-emissions supply chain at the nation's second-busiest seaport

SINGAPORE, the world's second largest container port, handled 37

CAMBODIA's Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) has posted a 22 per cent increase in year on year first 11 months to US$37 million, reports the Phnom Penh Post

AUSTRALIA's Port of Newcastle (PON) has continued pushing into the container trade with two Liebherr mobile harbour cranes recently, reports Bulimba, Queensland-based Grain Central

PORT of Virginia set a new June cargo volume record having handled more than 317,000 TEU, an increase of nearly 36,000 units when compared with last June, making it the facility's fourth consecutive month of cargo volumes of 314,000 TEU or more

WITH congestion rising on the US east coast impacting schedule reliability and furthering delays, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is combining the calls at Savannah and New York from mid-January until further notice, reports the American Journal of Transportation

THE Port of Virginia has surpassed the 300,000 TEU mark for another month, having already broken the August monthly record with 307,000 TEU, a year-on-year increase of 19 per cent, reports Jacksonville's Container News

IRAN is pressing ahead with plans and projects to increase its port capacity to 280 million tonnes a year, reports Tehran's official Press TV

LOUISIANA's Plaquemines Port and Maersk port operator APM Terminals (APMT) have announced plans to work together on the future of harbour facilities, reports UK's Port Strategy

THE Port of Los Angeles, America's busiest container port, lifted 9

VOIDED sailings have led to two terminals at the Port of Miami to schedule one- and two-day suspensions of operations owing to low import volumes

SHANGHAI port has maintained its top position for a tenth consecutive year in the world in terms of container throughput in 2019 with a record 43

THE Port of Los Angeles lifted 5

General cargo Volgo-Don 211 (4963 gt, built 1977), ran aground beyond the edge of the fairway, off the port of Azov, on the River Don near buoy No

A general strike in French Polynesia has seen cargo stuck in the Port of Papeete following action by port workers

The Japanese group MOL Chemical Tankers is coming to the port of Antwerp

Pelabuhan Tanjung Pelepas Sdn Bhd (PTP), a member of MMC Group, became the first port in the world to depart a vessel with a final load over 19,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs)

Initally, few outside of the Hunter seemed too concerned about the secret lease conditions making it all but impossible for Newcastle to have a container terminal, with the general belief being the idea wouldn’t work anyway, so why worry about a piece of obscure paperwork? Now, however, for a variety of reasons, that line of thinking is being challenged, and the consortium that operates the Port of Newcastle has seen enough in many months of investigations to believe that a container terminal can and will work in Newcastle