As the meetings, announcements and parties at Posidonia roll on, Seatrade Maritime News has the latest edition of the show daily - Posidonia Today.

The Port of Houston kicked off its the long-awaited billion dollar dredging scheme, the Houston Ship Channel Widening and Improvement Project 11 last week.

Falling demand and high retailer inventories could bring US-China container rates even lower, according to a supply chain analyst.

Ningbo-Zhoushan port’s single month container volume hits a new high in May, surpassing the latest record of 3m teu in April.

The number of containerships delayed at ports has started to improve, however 10.5% of the global fleet capacity remains unavailable.

After a two-month city-wide lockdown against Covid outbreaks, Shanghai is close to zero cases and will fully resume factory production and operations from 1 June.

The US has a new ‘Ports Czar’, officially Port and Supply Chain Envoy in the US Department of Transportation with Stephen Lyons, US Army General (Retired), succeeding John Porcari.

The British-Dutch biofuel producer Argent Energy is expanding its second-generation biodiesel production capacity in the Port of Amsterdam to provide sustainable shipping and road transport.

The United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has released its ranking of Latin American ports in 2021 with Panama Caribbean Coast port area leading from a list of 102 terminals.

New research into container port performance last year has thrown into relief recent efficiency gains achieved by Middle East ports, with four facilities in the region positioned in the global top five.