Abu Dhabi: At today’s opening of the World Ports and Trade Summit 2013, Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) announced the launch of a new subsidiary company, ADPC Marine Services.

La Paz: Bolivia plans to invest heavily in Peru’s southern ports in order to increase its foreign trade through Peru, according to the vice president of Bolivia, Alvaro Garcia.

Panama: The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) Annual meeting in Panama City called for Central American countries and the Dominican Republic to establish national logistics agendas to improve policy coordination and adapt their ports to the...

Hong Kong: Container port activities slowed down in February in Hong Kong as throughput shrank both year-on-year and month-on-month.

Hamburg: Heavy lift specialist Rickmers-Linie is launching a westbound round the world service connecting Asia, South America and North America.

Jakarta: Java and Sumatra will receive the bulk of funding for 40 infrastructure projects worth IDR337trn ($34.8bn) under the next phase of the Indonesian government's Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia’s Economic...

Zeebrugge: China Shipping Container Lines unit China Shipping Terminal Development has agreed to buy a 24% stake in APM Terminals Zeebrugge in Belgium.

Mexico City: The Enrique Pena Nieto Administration will invest $783.1m in the maritime sector to improve and build new infrastructure in six Mexican ports.

Singapore: Container throughput at the port of Singapore in February was flat at 2.36m teu, reflecting the shorter number of working days and the Chinese New Year holidays during that month.

Shanghai: China Cosco Holdings Co. (China Cosco) may sell assets worth as much as RMB27bn ($4.3bn) to its parent, Bloomberg reports.