Container volume at eight major Chinese port declined by 5.7% year-on-year in mid-April affected by the recent Covid outbreaks in Yangtze River delta region.

The world’s largest container port in Shanghai has managed to maintain operations during the Covid lockdown of China’s commercial heart, but daily container handling dropped by about 25% in April.

The Port of Rotterdam is eyeing developing a green corridor with Singapore as a growing number of countries look to pilot environmentally friendly shipping lanes.

Emergent Cold Latin America (Emergent Cold LatAm) is acquiring Polo Logístico de Frío (PLF) a major player in the Uruguayan market.

Maersk reported its best ever quarter in Q1 2022 with a $6.8bn profit despite taking a $718m hit from pulling out of Russia.

Côte d’Ivoire Terminal, a joint venture of Bollore Ports and APM Terminals, has received six yard gantry cranes for the second container terminal currently under construction at the Port of Abidjan.

Gasunie and Vopak are to co-operate on the development of hydrogen import terminal infrastructure for Northwest Europe.

Maersk will rebrand Pilot Freight Services as Pilot – A Maersk Company after successfully completing its acquisition.

Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), DP World’s trade and logistics hub, has broken ground on the first phase of its new ‘Jafza Logistics Park’, scheduled for completion in 2023.

Chile-based SAAM Towage has signed an agreement with Ian Taylor to acquire the company's towage operations in Peru.