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Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Boskalis Westminster to carry out major dredging work in the approach channel to the Port of Southampton. 

Work on the £30m contract is due to get underway shortly, with the new facilities at Southampton's container terminal due to open in the first quarter of 2014.

The dredging works will:

- improve the safety of navigation;

- improve the ability of vessels to pass each other in the approaches to the port;

-...

DP Word Southampton today marks the start of three new transatlantic services calling at the terminal with the inaugural call of Hapag-Lloyd’s Kobe Express. This is an important business win for the UK's best performing terminal.

Britain’s only container terminal on the south coast will now receive three additional weekly sailings from the Grand Alliance on the America-Europe trade: The Gulf Atlantic Express (GAX), the Gulf Mexico Express (GMX) services and the Pacific Atlan...

ABP’s Port of Southampton has been ranked the most productive port in Europe and the number one performing container terminal in the UK, according to an independent industry study.

Based on confidential data charting more than 100,000 port calls at 400 ports during 2012, the analysis from the Journal of Commerce (JOC) put Southampton's productivity performance among a global elite.

The findings place Southampton at 20th in the world for productivity, the only port in Europe to...

UK leading shipside and landside performance at DP World Southampton has played part in CMA CGM’s decision to add a Southampton call to its new FEMEX service to Northern Europe.

The new service is a vote of confidence for Southampton, who have seen a 28% increase in crane rates over the past 2 years, placing the terminal among the bes...

Associated British Ports (ABP) has awarded a £26 million contract to Liebherr to manufacture four new ship-to-shore gantry cranes as part of its redevelopment of container berths 201/202 at the Port of Southampton. The berth and cranes will enable Southampton’s container terminal – a joint venture with terminal operator DP World – to contin...

Associated British Ports (ABP) has received consent from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to improve the marine access to the Port of Southampton with an extensive programme of dredging.

The dredging, in Southampton Water and the Solent, is part of an extensive programme of investment centred around  improving the capability of the port to receive the largest vessels in the world long into the future. The consent marks the fi...