December 5 - Montrose Port Authority in Scotland has completed the second phase of a quayside refurbishment project. 

December 5 - The African Development Bank Group has approved a USD400 million loan to support the construction of an LNG plant in Mozambique. 

December 5 - Since November 2018, BigLift has been busy transporting cargoes for Dangote Oil Refining Company’s (DORC) project in Lagos, Nigeria.

December 5 - Freight Connection Pakistan has coordinated the delivery of five transformers, each weighing 60 tonnes, from Shekou port in China to Karachi port in Pakistan.

December 5 - Konecranes will acquire Jebsen & Jessen’s shares in the MHE-Demag joint venture for approximately EUR147 million (USD163 million).

December 5 - James White will resign as executive director at the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA), effective December 31.

December 4 - Representatives of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC), Cargo Equipment Experts (CEE) and Priority Cargo Network attended the seventh Sustainable Ocean Summit in Paris during November. 

December 4 - Three ship-to-shore (STS) cranes have arrived at Peel Ports’ facilities in Liverpool, UK, onboard ZPMC’s heavy lift ship Zhen Hua 25.

December 4 - COLI Group has appointed Simon Guthrie as a senior broker at its Hamburg office. 

December 4 - The Crosby Group has appointed Mike Kuzdzal as its chief operating officer.

December 4 - ALE has transported and lifted a separator for the Repsol refinery in A Coruña, Spain.

December 4 - Rope and Sling Specialists (RSS) delivered a series of testing and inspection services to Galvanize UK’s hot dip galvanising plant in South Kirkby during November. 

December 3 - Mammoet utilised two LR 11350 crawler cranes from Liebherr to hoist the nacelle of GE’s Haliade-X wind turbine at the port of Rotterdam. 

December 3 - DFDS will deploy its recently delivered newbuild ro-ro vessel Hollandia on its services from the port of Gothenburg, Sweden.

December 3 - Peinemann Mobilift Group has acquired industrial relocation specialist G. van Harten. 

December 3 - EMS-Fehn-Group and Prangl will strengthen their cooperation and team up on selected projects.

December 3 - DHL Global Forwarding has signed cooperation agreements with several Chinese wind turbine manufacturers for the provision of its logistics services.

December 3 - Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Ashley Curnow as the head of operations for its largest facility, Humber International Terminal (HIT).

December 2 - Jiangsu Zhenjiang Shipyard has launched United Wind Logistics’ (UWL) specialised deck carrier at its shipyard in China. 

December 2 - United European Car Carriers (UECC) has secured a “green” financing package for three of its newbuild pure car truck carriers (PCTC) on order with China Ship Building Trading and Jiangnan Shipyard Group.

December 2 - ALS Hamburg has coordinated the local transport of a 25-tonne mobile mixing plant.

December 2 - A 360-tonne bridge has been lifted into place as part of the construction of Tilbury2 terminal in the UK.

December 2 - Mammoet has placed 108 shoulder spans on the southbound lanes of the New Orleans Causeway in Louisiana, USA.