2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (176+ words) Kalmar offers liftruck refurbishment through Kalmar Modernisation Services in Hamina, Finland. Earlier this year, the team in Hamina completed a major "from the ground up" overhaul of a 2003-built DCE160 16-ton Kalmar FLT for a leading Finnish stevedoring company. The machine…...

15+ hour, 14+ min ago  (128+ words) Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has begun to show early signs of picking up following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, easing tensions in the region after almost four months. The…...

16+ hour, 19+ min ago  (126+ words) The Port of Melbourne recorded a second consecutive year of record container throughput in 2025, handling 3. 5m TEU during the calendar year, according to newly finalised data. Editor & Digital Coordinator for World Cargo News Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (410+ words) US-based Xtek specialises in precision manufacturing and a special heat-treating process to produce long-life wheels and sheaves for crane applications. The company is well known in the US steel and industrial crane market for pioneering its "Tool Steel Process" (TSP)…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (239+ words) Figures, published by the UK Department for Transport, show a year-on-year drop in freight tonnage passing through major British ports. The provisional statistics comparing January to March 2026 with January to March 2025. The data measures the top fifty or so ports…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (160+ words) BIC has launched a completely redesigned upload experience for Box Tech, its free global container database. Further platform enhancements are planned across 2026 as BIC works with industry groups that can benefit from shared data on container properties. The first in…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (211+ words) World Cargo News Liebherr LHM 600 goes into service at Compas Cartagena Liebherr has delivered a new mobile harbour crane (MHC) to Compania de Puertos Asociados S. A. (COMPAS), which operates Colombia's multipurpose port network across both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (378+ words) The leading brake manufacturer for the port crane sector, German SIBRE Siegerland-Bremsen Gmb H, continues to invest in R&D for the port industry. On the terminal, SIBRE recently completed a project to install its CB8-E disc brakes as a…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (210+ words) World Cargo News Port of Galveston moves to develop multi-use berth on Pelican Island Galveston Wharves, the governing entity that owns, manages, and operates the Port of Galveston, is proposing to move forward with the development of its Pelican Island…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (203+ words) 20 years after it abandoned a move to purchase the US terminal assets of P&O Ports, DP World is making a play for a US container terminal. The company has entered into an exclusive negotiation agreement for a long-term lease…...