Ports America is purchasing a 30-percent stake in International Transportation Service Inc., a terminal operating division of Japan's Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) in Long Beach, Calif.

Despite sanctions, Iran says the number of foreign trade vessels berthing at the country's southern port of Shahid Rajayee has considerably increased.

Construction has begun on a three-year $1.6bn overhaul of the largest container port in Australia, with Victorian state government saying the work is necessary to avoid capacity constraints and adding that it will create around 1,100 jobs.

CMA CGM is set to open an inland terminal near Abu Ghraib, in the Baghdad Governorate, in June. The shipping group will exclusively manage and operate the facility, which it says will be Iraq's only dry port.

China has assumed control of a strategic Pakistani port on the Arabian Sea, as part of a drive to secure energy and maritime routes that also gives it a potential naval base, sparking Indian concern. The Pakistani cabinet approved the transfer of Gwadar, currently a commercial failure cut off from the national road network, from Singapore's PSA International to the state-owned China company on January 30.