CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal, the first overseas greenfield project of Cosco Shipping Ports Limited (CSP), has started a new direct weekly service to several ports across Europe and the Indian Subcontinent.

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICSTSI) has announced a total throughput of 4.8m teu in the first six months of this year, down 5% year-on-year, across its 32 terminals spanning six continents.

King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam has set a new record for any Saudi port on the Arabian Gulf coast by handling 12,691 teu in a single call, reports the port’s container terminal operator Saudi Global Port (SGP).

The container volume of eight major Chinese ports increased 2.5% year-on-year during the period of mid-June.

Yilport is resuming its investment programme in the San Cataldo Container Terminal (SCCT), Italy, after Covid-19 delays and expects to receive its first CMA CGM box ship in July.

Ningbo-Zhoushan Port plans to acquire stake in Jiangyin Sunan International Container Terminal to expand its footprint along Yangtze river.

Germany’s Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has taken delivery of three new container gantry cranes for its Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) in Hamburg, providing additional capacities for handling ultra large containerships with cargo...

Global container port demand is forecast to rise for the next five years with box throughput reaching 973m teu by 2023, though capacity expansion plans are likely to be muted, according to a latest analysis by Drewry.

Hutchison Ports has been selected by Canada’s Québec Port Authority (QPA) to work alongside Canadian National Railway (CN) to build and operate a new deepwater container terminal known as project Laurentia.

If 1.3bn teu of containers were to be lined up end-to-end, they would go around the earth almost two hundred times.