…and Portek enters Malta

Liebherr Group has orders for two intermodal RMGs and has just placed another LPS 420 crane in the Russian market; four Vityaz double-lever cranes from SMM SevMorMontazh have recently been delivered to the same customer

APM Terminals in Los Angeles claims a container exchange record on a North American call.

The International Longshoremen’s Association has agreed a new 6-year Master Contract.

Singapore-based Portek, a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. Ltd of Japan, is aiming to handle 1M TEU in a calendar year for the first time in 2018. The company handled 930,000 TEU in 2017.

HES International has been taken over by American bank Goldman Sachs and Australia’s Macquarie Group. The Rotterdam-based dry and liquid bulk terminal operator has changed hands for €2B, according to Reuters

Chile-based multinational ports, logistics and towage group SAAM posted net income of US$64.4M in 2017, up 11% on 2016