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The leading European Port of Rotterdam plans to put a further 11 quay container cranes into operation, to cope with the growth in box traffic in recent years, particularly in the trade with Asia which is set to surpass transpacific routes this year.

A Logistics joint venture initiated by government of Qingdao and Korea's Incheon has held a ground-breaking ceremony in Qingdao, Logistics Week reported.

TransContainer has announced that is has handled its 100th container train that arrived in Kaluga, western Russia, from Germany on behalf of car manufacturer Volkswagen.

East Siberian River Shipping Company expects an 11 per cent increase in cargo to 2.2 million tonnes due to the settlement of the Irkutsk Region requiring more gravel and construction materials.

Sky-High oil prices, costly California ports, a doubling of Panama Canal capacity, cheaper all-water routes from Asia, augur well for the Port of Savannah, says its chief promoter John Wheeler, of the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA).

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Chiwan Container Terminal Co. Ltd (CCT) have jointly held a vendors' seminar in Shenzhen, which attracted more than 150 delegates from the shipping, freight forwarding and logistics industries.

Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT) has launched the first phase of its HK$140 million (US$18 million) crane-electrification programme in a bid to cut emissions at the city's Kwai Tsing Container Port.

Delegates attending the 17th Asian Shipowners' Forum (ASF) in Boao, China earlier this month have expressed "grave concern" that current container freight rates remained "insufficient," to cover the dramatic cost increases triggered by the high price of fuel and port congestion.

Marseililes-based CMA CGM has announced that an agreement has been signed with The New World Alliance (MOL, APL, HMM) for a new weekly service linking Japanese ports to Los Angeles.

Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has upgraded its South America West Coast service with the addition of a direct call at Houston port.

Shareholders were confused as the world's fifth-largest port operator, Cosco Pacific, said yesterday that it had offered US$779.32 million to manage container operations for 35 years at Piraeus port, Greece's biggest seaport, well below press reports of a $6.7 billion bid, trumping the $6.32 billion bid by a Hutchison Whampoa-led group.

The Russian government approved a draft agreement preliminarily worked out with the Lithuanian government regarding cooperation in the struggle with the Baltic Sea pollution by oil and other hazardous substances, the Russian governmental press service said.

Officials say they are fighting a 21-kilometre-long fuel-oil spill caused by the collision of two ships just outside the harbour of Uruguay's capital.

Three people have been confirmed dead, three injured, and seven missing following a fire on a cargo ship at a military dockyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, a navy spokesman said on Friday according to RIA Novosti.

The Indian central government has approved a US$125.62 million project for deepening Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin port to enable it cater to large cargo ships of 75,000 dead-weight tones.

Negotiations between Somali pirates and the owner of a Dutch ship are at an impasse over the size of the ransom the pirates are demanding, Radio Netherlands reports.

APL said it is ending the Pacific Rim Express Service (PRE) between Far East ports and Los Angeles.

The US gateway port of Los Angeles has lowered its budgeted revenue for the next financial year by 12.1 percent in anticipation of falling imports and a weak economy continuing into 2009.

Here are abstracts from the open letter of Russian Association of Marine and River Bunker Suppliers to RF Prime Minister Vladimir Putin:

Saigon Premier Container Terminal (SPCT) will implement the new Navis SPARCS N4 TOS to streamline operations at its greenfield site in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam.