As part of its commitment to transition to zero-emissions operations, the Port of Long Beach will use a $5.3 million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to deploy hydrogen- and electric-powered cargo-handling equipment at two shipping terminals.

An official authority that supports Belgium´s Port of Antwerp has certified the new Hyster® Empty Container Handler series as approved equipment for double reefer container handling.

Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) has delivered a record annual throughput of 699.3 million tonnes (Mt) for the 2017/18 financial year.

Driven by an increase in imports, The Port of Virginia® completed fiscal year 2018 (FY18) having handled 2.8 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), which is a volume increase of 2.4 percent when compared with last fiscal year.

South Carolina Ports Authority has announced record container volume of 2.2 million TEUs handled during the 2018 fiscal year, an increase of three percent over the previous fiscal year.

The Australian port solution provider Qube Ports will shortly receive its eighth mobile harbour crane from Liebherr. Furthermore, the facility has now also placed an order for their ninth LHM.

Krishnapatnam Port Company Limited (KPCL), the country's largest all-weather; deep water port, on the east-coast of India, in an industry first initiative, announced the installation of 'Rapiscan Eagle P 60 ("Eagle P60')' a drive through X Ray Container Scanner & Radiation Portal Monitors.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue made a stop at the Port of Vancouver USA recently to talk with leaders in port and river-related industries.

Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) 250 to South Africa-based Dredging Africa. 

In the first quarter of 2018, Konecranes won another order from Italy for mobile harbour cranes. Two cranes were recently commissioned at Port of Civitavecchia, Rome.

Freight forwarders that suffered operational damage and incurred significant additional costs as a result of the disruption to operations at the UK port of Felixstowe following the introduction of a new operating system in June have been warned that they are unlikely to receive any compensation from the port's owners.

In 2015, the Port of Gothenburg introduced an environmental discount on the port tariff in an effort to increase the number of calls by ships running on liquefied natural gas (LNG). Several major LNG investments have been made since then, including initiatives by a number of Swedish shipping companies. This has had a positive impact on the environment, including reduced emissions of sulphur dioxide, particles and nitric oxide into the air in western Sweden. The Gothenburg Port Authority is now set to extend the discount period and is already outlining a renewed environmental discount.

May imports at The Northwest Seaport Alliance reached their highest level since 2010 at 131,067 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), marking a 0.7 percent increase from last May. At 114,227 TEUs, export volumes were down 11.2 percent from the prior year volumes but above the five-year average.

At TOC Europe, Liebherr Maritime disclosed the expansion of the reachstacker product line by two new devices. A powerful reachstacker with the lifting capacity of 35 tonnes in the second container row and a log handler for timber handling will complete the existing product family.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has signed partnership agreements with four recent participants in the annual PortXL innovation programme.

The Port of Long Beach had the busiest May in its 107-year history, as dockworkers handled 687,427 TEUs of containerised cargo, an increase of 6% compared to the same month a year ago.

Van Oord is collaborating with three start-ups who have been scouted via innovation platform PortXL. On 14 June, the contracts were signed in the presence of CEO Pieter van Oord. In the search for new cooperative partners, Van Oord focused on two innovation themes: sustainability and digitisation.