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The Port of Long Beach Community Grants Program will give away more than $46 million over the next 12-15 years to help those most affected by Port-related impacts. The grants help address the effects on air and water quality, traffic, and noise on local schools, health-care centers, senior facilities and the wider community.

Electrical issues that took place at APM Terminals’s new Moin container terminal in Costa Rica will lead 12 container ships to be diverted to docks administered by Costa Rica’s port authority JAPDEVA. The decision was made in order to prevent disrupting the operations, as the terminal faces some problems with one of the transformers.

An £80,000 network of air pollution monitors, funded by the Port of London Authority, is now in place, ready to record the effect of emissions locally from cruise ships docking in Greenwich this summer. The eight monitoring stations are located close to the Greenwich Ship Tier landing stage. They will capture data all day long, with the raw data available at the websites of both the PLA and Breathe London.

On 21 May 2019, after formal approval by the relevant competition authorities, PSA International, the Polish Development Fund and the IFM Global Infrastructure Fund, have completed the transaction to jointly acquire DCT Gdańsk, the largest container terminal in Poland. The consortium partners aim to further enhance the terminal's position and to look into more expansion needs as and when relevant.

The British Ports Association has written to the UK’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Liz Truss MP, urging that the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review to consider how to replicate the EU's schemes that provide investment for the transport and infrastructure network. The BPA also called for new mechanisms to be created to help UK projects benefit from European Investment Bank loans.

Hamburg Süd announced that it christened the 'Polar Ecuador' container ship in Antwerp. The ship belongs to a group of four structurally identical vessels in the 'Polar' class that have been built for Hamburg Süd by the Chinese shipyard Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding. The 'Polar Ecuador' will operate in Hamburg Süd’s North Europe - Mexico/Caribbean service (EMCS), which connects Antwerp and other European ports in Ireland, Great Britain and Germany with Mexican and Caribbean ports. 

The Port of Tyne informed that it is increasing its offer to potential offshore wind manufacturers. Namely, the Port has almost completed the final phase of a major investment programme to infill Tyne Dock and increase its commercial property portfolio. A £3 million programme will complete Tyne Dock infill, leading to an additional 30 acres of land with deep-sea quayside access to support offshore wind.

Oman Oil Marketing Company has secured board approval for constructing an in-port bunker terminal at the Port of Duqm on the Sultanate's Al Wusta coast. The permission regards 30,000 cubic metres of tankage capacity along with the necessary ancillary equipment and facilities. What is more, Oman Oil Marketing Company has developed four more service stations in the Duqm area.

India's 12 major ports achieved a 5.65% increase in cargo handling to 60.07 million tonnes in April this fiscal year. This was mainly because of higher demand for coal, petroleum, oil and lubricants. These ports handled a total of 56.86 MT of cargo in April 2018. The growth at these port was mainly because of higher handling of coal, fertilisers and containers.

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) along with the Port Authority of Las Palmas have ratified an investment plan for the Port of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. The aim is to establish the Port of Las Palmas as a key hub for shipping traffic with the African West Coast. Approximately EUR 9 million will be funded to modernize the Port, a process that will take place over the course of eight years.