Shanghai: Shanghai, the world's busiest container port, saw a considerable dip in box throughput in February due to the shorter number of days and the Chinese New Year holidays.

Jakarta: Mitsui has reportedly won the tender to operate Kalibaru’s first container terminal in North Jakarta.

Jakarta: Indonesia's state-owned terminal operator Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Pelindo III) has spent over €100m ($130m) to order container handling equipment from Konecranes.

Puerto Cortes: International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), that won the International tender for the construction and operation of the container and general cargo terminal of Puerto Cortes in Honduras, have said they will begin work...

Panama City: The port of Rotterdam expansion – Maasvlakte 2- will be completed by the end of this year with terminals operational in mid-2014.

Shanghai: Cosco has transferred its 39.04% stake in Taicang International Container Terminal (TICT) upstream from Shanghai on the Yangtze to its terminal operator unit Cosco Pacific for RMB322.78m ($51.82m).

Phnom Penh: Cambodia has opened its new 120,000-teu a year capacity container terminal of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port.

Fujian: Fujian ports posted a 10.6% year-on-year rise in box volume in to 10.7m teu in 2012.

Busan: South Korea's Busan port maintained its position as the world's fifth busiest container port in 2012 with throughput of 17.03m teu, an improvement from 16.17m teu in 2011.

Kaohsiung: Taiwan's main seaport Kaohsiung achieved a marginal improvement in annual container throughput in 2012, according to figures from Taiwan International Ports Corporation (TIPC).