The port of Shanghai, the world’s busiest container port, may have set a container throughput record for July, its operator Shanghai International Port Group said on Monday on its official WeChat account.

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) South Africa has issued a request for information for project ideas for the supply of renewable energy at South Africa’s main commercial ports.

As had already emerged from recent discussions, the two groups who had been invited by the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority to tender for the elaboration of the detailed and executive design and the construction of the new Breakwater of the Port of Genoa, presented their offers by the bid submission deadline of midnight 26 July.

A backup of container ships off one of the U.S. East Coast’s busiest ports has swelled to 40 vessels, reviving a bottleneck that had cleared earlier this year and raising fresh concerns over potential supply-chain disruptions during the critical peak shipping season.

The Port of Venice and Italian authorities approved a test of anchoring a large cruise ship outside the lagoon and tending passengers ashore for a day’s long visit.

Pilbara Ports Authority has delivered a total monthly throughput of 65.9 million tonnes (Mt) for June 2022.

Shipping containers are transported by automated guided autos (AGV) beside gantry cranes on the dockside at the Delta Terminal, operated by Europe Container Terminals BV (ECT), at the Port of Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The Port of Rio Grande in the Brazilian southernmost state of Rio Grande do sul, will have continuous dredging of its access channel. The decision follows strong long-standing demand from operators and the fact that the main maritime port terminal in the state of Rio Grande do Sul also has close links with the three other Mercosur member countries, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.

Container xChange’s new Demurrage & Detention Benchmark 2022 report, published today, compares Demurrage & Detention (D&D) rates* imposed on customers by the world’s ten largest shipping lines across 60 of the world’s biggest container ports.

Construction is underway on the first shore power installation specifically designed to handle containerships. The demonstration project is being built at the Port of Hamburg initially serving two of the terminals and is due to enter an initial test phase in 2023.