DP World Southampton has brought an additional 11.2 acres of land on stream and is to upgrade its container handling equipment and quayside cranes to remain in step with the world’s largest container vessels.

Problems continue to mount for bankrupt Hanjin Shipping in North America even if some of its vessels have managed to dock and discharge cargo.

DP World has established another strategic Caspian Sea foothold on the “New Silk Road” after entering into an agreement to develop a free trade zone in Azerbaijan.

An agreement to explore investment opportunities in ports, special economic zones and inland logistics centres in Russia expands DP World’s growing presence in the world’s largest country.

DP World has delayed bringing 1.5m teu of extra capacity on line at Jebel Ali’s terminal 3 and “slowed” the construction of its flagship port’s new $1.6bn terminal 4 due to what it describes as "quite clearly" a global economic slowdown. 

DP World has announced a 50.2% increase in profit attributable to shareholders of $608m for the first half of 2016 and says it remains well placed to “continue to outperform the market” despite on-going global trade uncertainty. 

DP World has gone all sci-fi, unveiling a partnership with a US company it hopes will eventually lead to the movement of containers between its flagship port at Jebel Ali and a new inland container depot in Dubai via Hyperloop technology.

DP World subsidiary P&O Maritime has inked an exclusive “memorandum of co-operation” to provide much needed port marine services expertise at Ukraine’s Odessa Sea Commercial Port.

Another day, another container terminal concession for global port operator DP World.

DP World is on the march again, this time to Taiwan where it has vowed to help Kaohsiung Port regain some of its former glory.