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Port of Rotterdam presents a look of the port's year for 2019, commenting it as a "safe year", discussing the developments in the port, the number of sea-going vessels' arrival and the accidents that took place.

Chain parties in the port of Rotterdam launched a set of guidelines, providing recommendations to shippers and/or freight forwarders when it comes to influencing the development of a more transparent and efficient structure for the inland container shipping chain.

The video, published by Canada's Port of Vancouver, points out the latest progress made at the Centerm Expansion Project and South Shore Access Project, aimed to help meet anticipated near-term demand for containers shipped through the Port. The projects are expected to be complete by 2022.

The Port of Southampton accomplished one of its milestones, with the upgrades to Ocean Cruise Terminal following the arrival of two new air bridges, as the Associated British ports informed. The port is now ready for the arrival of Iona, P&O Cruises newest cruise ship and the first wholly powered LNG ship built for the UK market.

The Government of Georgia decided to cancel its contract with the Anaklia Development Consortium and to launch appropriate legal procedures. The issue was the first to be discussed at Thursday’s governmental meeting.

The Government of the Philippines will boost the country's cruise tourism from 2020 by attracting more cruise tourists arriving with international ships at the Salomague Ilocos Cruise Port, near the northern tip of Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines. 

Port of Tallinn, Estonia, announced that it signed a deal with YIT Eesti AS for the construction of new cruise terminal in Tallinn Old City Harbour, with the deal having a 13.7 million euros value. Specifically, the cruise terminal will be completed in July 2021, according to plans. 

The port of Rotterdam welcomed the European Green Deal which was presented in December 2019, commenting that it will boost Europe's plans to tackle climate change and achieve its environmental goals. However, the authority seems sceptical of the Deal, commenting that "several of the measures stated in the Green Deal appear logical, but the detailing of these plans is still unclear."

The French port of Le Havre issued a tender to begin reinforcement works on the Hermann du Pasquier quay, in line with its offshore wind reception, including a roll on/roll off (RoRo) platform, as well as the execution studies.

The Port of Quincy, US, began its Phase 1 of its infrastructure project; The project will consist of two phases, with the port providing the funding for the completion of the first phase, expecting to complete the design of the project at the end of 2019 and the overall phase 1 in early 2020.