Qatar's ports handled 226 vessels and 110,784 TEU in December 2025, showing significant growth compared to 2024, reports Qatar's Peninsula.

MCA invites UK ports to a three-month compliance exercise to align with the Ports and Marine Facilities Safety Code, enhancing safety standards.

East and Gulf Coast ports are upgrading rail infrastructure to boost capacity, despite fluctuating cargo volumes and leadership changes.

AD Ports Group enhances its Logistics Cluster with top executives to boost global operations under Noatum Logistics, led by CEO Jochen Thewes.

AD Ports Group's bid for Alexandria Container Handling Company is rejected by Egypt after failed negotiations in Turkey.

Russian drone and missile attacks intensify on Ukrainian Black Sea ports, damaging infrastructure and disrupting vital maritime trade.

Saudi ports saw an 8.22% increase in transshipment containers in November, despite a decline in total handled containers.

Money from the Environment Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Ports Programme will be used for new drayage, cargo-handling equipment, reports New York's FreightWaves

THE General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI) declared that its February earnings exceeded IRR65 billion (US

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THE volume of containers handled by Panama ports fell 2

COPENHAGEN Malmo Port now uses fossil-free fuel of hydrogenated vegetable oil for its container terminal machines while Hamburg's Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) Container Terminal now only uses battery-powered automatic guided vehicles (AGV), reports Rotterdam's Offshore Energy

ACTIVITY at Israel's ports is slowing after last Saturday's attacks by Islamist group Hamas on towns close to Gaza, with the cost of insurance premiums for Israeli shipments soaring amid tightening supplies of food stocks, according to sources and data

OREGON's Port of Coos Bay and NorthPoint Development have jointly presented a proposal for the second round of Mega grant funding, for the Pacific Coast Intermodal Port (PCIP) initiative, reports Rotterdam's Dredging Today

THE Swiss Italian Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) is preparing to pull the world's largest containership, the 23,756-TEU MSC Mia, as well as the 23,656 TEU MSC Nela from serving the Asia-Europe trades and redeploy both vessels on the transpacific services that it operates with 2M partner Maersk Line

THE Chinese Port of Nanjing that reopened for business one month ago has been stepping up its efforts to handle greater container volumes as factory production picks up in China

PORT authorities in Rotterdam, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Hamburg, Antwerp and Barcelona have joined the World Ports Climate Action Programme that aims to curb global warming

THE revised OffPeak programme for providing extended gate hours at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach - dubbed PierPass 2

SAUDI Arabia's King Abdullah Port recently received 28 state-of-the-art Liebherr cranes to start the expansion of the container terminals, which has been described as the largest commercial operation of its kind in the history of the nation

LONG-TERM cargo growth is expected to be achieved in the containerised cargo, ro/ro vehicle cargo and import dry bulk cargo sectors at sea ports located in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a draft 30-year forecast produced by Tioga Group and Hackett Associates on behalf of the San Francisco Conservation and Development Commission

THE Qatari ports of Hamad, Doha and Ruwais handled 121,404 TEU in July, up from 105,686 TEU in the previous month of June, according to data released by Mwani Qatar

THE top ten US container ports recorded better-than-expected 2

FACED with mounting pressure from declining US exports to China, coupled with slowing import growth and congestion-relation performance issues, the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach are doubling down on efficiency enhancements to stem the loss of discretionary cargo to other regions of North America

Bremen and Bremerhaven post strongest growth of all western European peers

SAUDI Ports Authority plans to call for new tenders for container terminal concessions at Jeddah Islamic Port (JIP) in 2017 unless the present holders can perform better than they do today, reports Seatrade Global of Colchester, England

THE Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has expressed confidence that its ports will be capable of handling greater cargo volumes once the Cabotage Law if lifted.

CONTAINER terminals springing up on Mexico's Pacific and Atlantic coasts now risk overcapacity while leaving the nation woefully bereft of ro-ro facilities, reports London's Loadstar.

MEXICAN ports posted a 5.5 per cent year-on-year increase in container volume to 4.1 million TEU in 2016, outstripping the 3.3 per cent average growth of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ports.

WITH the expanded Panama Canal nearing its first full year of operation, some ports are already benefiting as a result, particularly those along the US east coast, according to a Panama Canal Authority (ACP) report.

MAJOR ports globally saw third quarter cargo traffic rise by 6.4 per cent year on year, according to data published by the Shanghai International Shipping Institute (SISI).

ASIAN shippers transporting cargo to the European Union (EU) are likely to benefit from increased Black Sea/Caspian Sea competition with faster, cheaper and improved services

WITH retail sales still strong, volumes through US container ports continues on its record-breaking course, according to the Global Port Tracker report from the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates

SAUDI Ports have raised container throughput volumes 10

CHINESE ports have suffered an overall decline in volumes over the past few weeks as more cities have imposed lockdowns amid a surge in Covid-19, reports London's Port Technology

US east coast vessel volumes are up because of fears of a west coast dock strike, reports CNBC News

THE increasing number of ship arrivals at Chattogram port amid the economic recovery from Covid fallouts has led to the pile-up of containers rising to 90 per cent of the yard capacity

MAJOR US ports have urged the Biden administration actively incentivise the start of an extended terminal gate times, reports IHS Media

PORT authorities from Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and the United States have signed a declaration on their collective response to disruption, digitalisation, and decarbonisation at the 6th Port Authorities Roundtable (PAR), which was virtually hosted by the Antwerp Port Authority last week

THE US-China trade war, the prolonged Lunar New Year factory shutdown combined with the coronavirus outbreak worldwide squeezed container volumes at most of the US' top container ports in January

CARGO volumes handled by ports in Panama totalled 7,346,859 TEU in 2019, representing an increase of 4

The difficulties experienced by operators in Douala port constitute a roadblock to wood exports in Congo, Gabon, and Cameroon

Some major Chinese ports delayed clearing goods from the United States on Friday, four sources said, potentially disrupting imports worth billions of dollars as the world’s top two economies head towards an outright trade war

The British Ports Association (BPA) has established a new Human Resources and Employment Network which met for the first time last week in London.

IMPORTS through the two major US west coast ports have surged more than 30 per cent in the first two months of the year compared to the same period in 2015, according to Datamyne, a provider of web-based international market intelligence.

CONTAINER volumes through Virginia Ports increased 4.6 per cent year on year to 210,177 TEU in April, reports the Virginian-Pilot.

THE Port of Los Angeles is welcoming some 500 delegates from 200 ports to the largest-ever gathering of world port authorities at the IAPH conference this week.

THE deployment of megaships will place staggering new demands on northern European container terminals, which will need deeper channels and bigger ships to shore facilities to cope with massive volumes without creating congestion in yards, says a new study from UK-based Ocean Shipping Consultants (OSC).

Bremen and Bremerhaven post strongest growth of all western European peers

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India’s ports have expanded to reach an annual capacity of over 1 billion tonnes, but the Minister of Shipping has called for more.

NOVOROSSIYSK Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) Group's consolidated cargo volumes rose by 0