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| Proposed Georgia port aimed at bulk |
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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A third port in southern Georgia could help diversify the state's marine business by concentrating on bulk cargo such as grains, sands, aggregates and wood pellets, according to a Feb. 16 press release by the Camden County Joint Development Authority, which is promoting the concept. David Keating, the JDA's executive director, recently briefed state lawmakers that a 720-acre site where a defunct paper mill now sits is available for sale and presented an excellent opportunity to ...
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| Improved productivity at APMT Callao terminal |
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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APM Terminals said significant productivity gains have been made at the container terminal it now operates in the Peruvian port of Callao. APMT, the terminal operating arm of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, assumed control of the port’s North Terminal in July. In that time, “crane productivity has more than doubled to 26.57 moves per hour per crane and gate turnaround time has decreased by 49 percent to 28 minutes in the first 29 weeks of operations.” The term...
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| NY port hits record container volume in 2011 |
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it handled a 5.5 million TEUs in 2011 (both loaded and empty), about 4 percent more than in 2010. The port’s on-dock rail system – known as ExpressRail – also set a new record in 2011, handling 422,144 containers of all sizes, or 12 percent more than in 2010.
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| Proposed Georgia port aimed at bulk cargo |
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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A third port in southern Georgia could help diversify the state's marine business by concentrating on bulk cargo such as grains, sands, aggregates and wood pellets, according to a Feb. 16 press release by the Camden County Joint Development Authority, which is promoting the concept. David Keating, the JDA's executive director, recently briefed state lawmakers that a 720-acre site where a defunct paper mill now sits is available for sale and presented an excellent opp...
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| Ports help Georgia land new Caterpillar plant |
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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Access to the ports of Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., played a key role in Caterpillar Inc.'s decision to build a new plant in Athens, Ga., the company said Friday. The 1 million-square-foot facility will manufacture small track-type tractors and mini-hydraulic excavators and employ 1,400 people when fully operational. The announcement also underscores the recent phenomenon of near-shoring, the slowly growing trend of some U.S. man...
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| Inspectors stop bee threat at U.S. port |
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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The U.S. honeybee population is safer today after U.S. Customs officers at the Port of Norfolk in Virginia recently intercepted a red mason bee hitchhiking in a container of household goods from the United Kingdom, the agency said. It is the first known interception of the red mason bee, which is commonly found in the United Kingdom, and is not established in the United States. Inspectors found the insect within a rolled rug and called in agriculture specialists to ident...
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| Third port for Georgia? |
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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Georgia officials are eyeing a bankrupt paper mill on the St. Mary's River in Camden County as a possible site for a third port, according to two local newspapers. Camden County Development Authority Executive Director David Keating recommended to lawmakers that the state buy the 720-acre site of the defunct mill for $12 million and turn it into a port, the Morris News Service reported Thursday. He also presented his plan to Gov. Nathan Deal and the Georgia Ports Authority,...
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| Unisys seeks India port deal |
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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Unisys Corp. is in talks with India’s shipping ministry to provide security systems to domestic ports to avoid traffic congestion and piracy threats, according to a report in India’s Economic Times . The project involves drawing a port-security roadmap for threats, as well as a vessel traffic management system, with a deal possibly signed by March, according to the report.
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| Port truckers in Seattle end protest |
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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The Port of Seattle announced that cargo operations and deliveries returned to normal Wednesday as a contingent of port truck drivers ended a two-week work stoppage to protest pay and safety conditions. An estimated 300 to 400 drivers that shuttle containers between the port, local warehouses and rail ramps walked off the job Jan. 31 in an effort to get classified as employees instead of independent contractors and draw attention to alleged occupational hazards such...
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| Mixed fortunes at SoCal ports in January |
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Container volume at the Southern California ports rose a collective 1 percent year-on-year in January, but the spoils were not equally shared, with Los Angeles volume rising, and Long Beach’s dropping. The two ports handled a collective 1.15 million TEUs in the month, up from 1.13 million TEUs in January 2011. Los Angeles’ volume rose 5.8 percent in the month to 698,715 TEUs. Long Beach’s volume fell 3.9 percent to 456,424 TEUs. Imports to Los Angeles rose 5.3 perce...
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| U.S. imports to rise in first half 2012 |
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to drop 6.8 percent in February from the same month a year ago, but should show year-over-year increases through most of the remaining first half of 2012, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released Wednesday by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. “With consumer confidence building, retailers are optimistic that the economy is recovering but are continuing to be ...
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| APMT chief urges India to expand ports |
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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India remains significantly underrepresented as a player in global trade, according to APM Terminals Chief Executive Officer Kim Fejfer. "The opportunities for development throughout India, one of the world's largest and fastest-growing economies, are exciting and energizing and APM Terminals is committed to being a part of that growth," Fejfer said during a keynote speech at the India Ports Conference in Mumbai this week. Although India’s economy is now the...
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| Budget increase sought for DOT, Army Corps |
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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President Obama is proposing a fiscal year 2013 budget for the Department of Transportation of $74 billion, 2 percent, or $1.4 billion, above the 2012 enacted amount. It's one piece of a $3.8 trillion plan that raises spending to support the middle class through incentives for domestic manufacturing, lower payroll taxes, infrastructure investment and other steps while raising revenue through taxes on the wealthiest Americans and reductions in subsidies for the ...
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| Parsons Brinckerhoff picks Northeast ports director |
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Parsons Binckerhoff has appointed Phillip Girandola to director of ports and marine in the U.S. Northeast. New York-based Parsons Brinckerhoff is a global infrastructure consulting, planning, engineering and program/construction management firm. Girandola has more than 27 years of experience as an engineering consultant and construction contractor in marine and heavy civil projects.
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| Court won't block NY Waterfront Commission program |
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Monday, February 13, 2012
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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a complaint by the New York Shipping Association (NYSA) that sought to block a program by the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (WCNYH) that would give it the option to install independent monitors at port businesses. The commission was created in 1953 by the states of New York and New Jersey as a special law enforcement agency to combat crime and corruption at marine terminals and other wa...
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| NC ports posted volume gains in 2011 |
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Monday, February 13, 2012
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Container volume grew 11.2 percent to 287,467 TEUs at the Port of Wilmington, the North Carolina State Ports Authority said last week. Bulk and breakbulk tonnage increased 16 percent in Wilmington over 2010 to 1.7 million tons, while in Morehead City those categories recorded a 2 percent increase to 1.9 million tons. Breakbulk cargo increased 8 percent at that two state ports. The Port of Wilmington experienced significant gains in animal feed and grain imports...
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| Savannah to welcome MSC Golden Gate service |
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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Mediterranean Shipping Co.'s weekly Golden Gate Service is scheduled to arrive for the first time at the Port of Savannah on Feb. 16 based on the company's latest plans, Executive Vice President Allen Clifford said. News that the Swiss container line was adding Savannah to its loop via the Suez Canal was initially reported in November by American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data . The 12-vessel string will include the largest ships ever to call on Georgia's deepwater...
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| Rep. Issa questions LA port's stimulus spend |
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
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The campaign by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives to discredit the Obama administration's choices for distributing stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has now set its sights on the Port of Los Angeles. Rep. Darrell Issa of California, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Monday sent a letter to Port Director Geraldine Knatz asking for details about the port's decision to use $489,0...
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| Army Corps boosts spending on harbor deepening |
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released work plans for its civil works program through the end of the current fiscal year 2012 and increased the amount it will spend on harbor deepening projects. Projects underway or planned to deepen harbors in Jacksonville, Fla.; Savannah, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; Wilmington, N.C., and the Delaware River all received multimillion increases in funding. The South Carolina Ports Authority said the plan included $2.5...
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| Report calls NY/NJ port authority 'dysfunctional' |
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
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A highly critical report on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, released on Tuesday, described the agency as a "challenged and dysfunctional organization suffering from a lack of consistent leadership, a siloed underlying bureaucracy, poorly coordinated capital planning processes, insufficient cost controls, and a lack of transparent and effective oversight of the World Trade Center (the “WTC”) program that has obscured full awareness of billions of dollars in exposu...
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| ACL starts ro/ro service to Russia, Finland |
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
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Atlantic Container Line said it's starting a weekly roll-on/roll-off service to Russia and Finland this month. ACL said the service combines its transatlantic vessels and Finnlines’ ice-class Baltic vessels with shipments transshipped via Antwerp, Belgium. Both ACL and Finnlines are owned by the Grimaldi Group. “Our customers have been asking us for a better Baltic Sea connection for quite some time," said Andrew J. Abbott, ACL’s pre...
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| First ship due at Longview terminal |
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
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The first ship is due to call at the EGT grain terminal in Longview, Wash., in the wake of an agreement between the owners of the facility and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) that will result in ILWU employees loading vessels at the facility. An earlier decision by EGT to hire a contractor employing members of the rival International Union of Operating Engineers resulted in months of protests, one of which led to property damage at the facility i...
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| Busan volume up 10% on transshipments |
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
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Cargo volume at the Port of Busan, the world fifth largest container port, rose 10.6 percent year-on-year in January to nearly 1.4 million TEUs, according to a statement from South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. Busan’s volume increase was largely due to a 23 percent spike in transshipment cargo to 671,000 TEUs. Import-export volume remained stable, at 684,000 TEUs, an increase of 0.3 percent.
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| CSA to assess St. Vincent tug surcharge |
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
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Members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association said last week they plan to begin assessing a St. Vincent and the Grenadines tug service surcharge from early March. “This charge is to recoup a portion of the costs imposed for mandatory employment of tugboats by ships entering and departing St. Vincent,” the member lines said. “The use of tugboats is completely unnecessary from navigation and safety points of view.” The surcharge, $90 per container, is effective from...
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| APMT names Nielsen Latin America head |
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
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The global terminal operator APM Terminals has named Joe Nielsen, former chief financial officer of its Americas region as managing director for Latin America. APMT said the high-growth markets of Latin America “continue to be a focus area of the company's investment planning.” Latin American container trade has been projected by Drewry to expand by 6.5 percent this year. The company operates container terminal facilities in Callao, Peru; B...
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| New Orleans sets own TEU record in 2011 |
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Monday, February 06, 2012
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Container volumes at the Port of New Orleans in 2011 grew 11.6 percent on an annual basis to 476,413 TEUs, a port record and an increase of 46 percent from two years ago, the port authority said a week ago. Officials credited strong exports, especially for chemicals and agricultural products, as well as coffee and apparel on the import side, for the strong performance. The port also added a new Latin American container service last year from CMA CGM.&nb...
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| Ningbo's 2011 volume up 10% |
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Monday, February 06, 2012
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The Port of Ningbo’s container volume reached 14.5 million TEUs in 2011, an increase of 10.7 percent from 2010, according to a report from the state-owned news agency Xinhua . Ningbo has seen volume more than double since 2006, when it handled barely 7 million TEUs. It is mainland China’s third busiest container port, after world leader Shanghai and Shenzhen, and it ranks sixth globally.
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| Savannah posts 4.2% TEU growth in 2011 |
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Friday, February 03, 2012
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A record 2.95 million TEUs crossed the docks at the Port of Savannah in 2011, up 4.2 percent, or 120,000 units, from the prior year, the Georgia Ports Authority announced last week. The strong container volume helped Savannah and its sister port Brunswick set a tonnage record of 26.1 million tons for the year, up 4.3 percent, or 1.1 million tons from 2010. The rate of container growth in 2011 was less than in 2010 (19.9 percent), but better than many po...
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| Damen sends new dredgers to Azerbaijan |
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Friday, February 03, 2012
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Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards delivered three cutter suction dredgers to the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Azerbaijan. The ministry ordered the three dredgers to clean-up, deepen and maintain the Kura River. Damen was able to build and deliver the dredgers within six months of signing the contract with the Azerbaijan government. The dredgers will be moved to Nefchala, where the crews will be trained. Afterwards they start work at three d...
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| ACP says canal expansion on schedule |
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
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The Panama Canal Authority (ACP), as well as Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC), the consortium of four construction companies building a new, larger set of locks for the waterway, said they expect the expansion project to be completed on time. Despite a one-week construction workers strike in January, problems with perfecting the concrete mix for the locks project, and a report of work falling behind, both ACP and GUPC said in statements the canal expansion was ...
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| DOT begins 4th round of TIGER grants |
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
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The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday said it will make $500 million available this year in the fourth round of TIGER funding for surface transportation investment. Infrastructure projects will be evaluated on how they advance the Obama administration's goals of safety, improving the nation's economic competitiveness, livable communities, environmental sustainability, keeping assets in a state of good repair and short-term job creation. The ...
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| Hapag-Lloyd to start weekly service to Portland |
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
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German container line Hapag-Lloyd will begin calling the Port of Portland on a weekly basis instead of every 10 to 14 days beginning Feb. 8, port spokesman Josh Thomas confirmed. The extra frequency is expected to help shippers in the Pacific Northwest with greater access to the European market. The newly configured rotation also brings Hamburg Süd, another German carrier, to the Columbia River port for the first time. In December, H...
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| Ports call for more dredging funds |
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
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Several port executives called for passage of the so-called Realize America's Maritime Promise or RAMP Act (H.R. 104) during a joint hearing of the House's Ways and Means oversight and select revenue measures subcommittees. The oversight subcommittee is chaired by Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., who introduced the bill. The bill would dedicate all proceeds of the Harbor Maintenance Tax to harbor maintenance projects such as dredging port...
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| First batch of Fords heads to S. Korea |
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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The Port of Portland two weeks ago began exporting Ford vehicles made in Detroit to South Korea, marking the first time the auto maker has utilized the Pacific Northwest to deliver finished vehicles abroad, the Oregon port announced on its Website. The Columbia River port is taking advantage of its import facilities and rail services to export U.S.-made cars. Glovis, the logistics arm of South Korean manufacturer Hyundai, arranges with roll-on/roll-off carrier ...
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| Everglades snags new chief, finalizes intermodal deal |
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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Steven Cernak is leaving the Port of Galveston in Texas, where he served as port director for a dozen years, to head Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Broward County announced Tuesday that Cernak will replace Phillip Allen, who has been the port's chief executive officer since 2006 and is scheduled to retire on Feb. 3. Cernak's start date has not been finalized. "Mr. Cernak has big shoes to fill, but his experience as a port direct...
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| Baltimore offers cash to scrap old trucks |
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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Truckers serving the Port of Baltimore can now receive up to $20,000 towards disposal of their old, polluting rigs and purchase of newer model trucks under a program announced Tuesday to help reduce diesel emissions. The "cash-for-clunkers" incentive is primarily aimed at individual operators who own their trucks and upgrade to tractors with 2007 or newer engines. The Environmental Protection Agency set new emission standards...
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| Rep. Mica introduces surface transportation bill |
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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A new transportation bill was introduced in the U.S. House by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica, R-Fla., and other members of his committee on Tuesday. They said the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act (H.R. 7) would authorize approximately $260 billion over five years to fund federal highway, transit and safety programs, “consistent with current funding levels.” Mica called it the “largest transportation reform...
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| Study: Oakland port pollution drops |
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
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The Port of Oakland said a study by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley found a 50 percent decline in diesel particulate matter emissions from drayage trucks and a 40 percent decline in nitrogen oxide emissions in the port area following implementation of the clean trucks component of the port’s comprehensive truck management program. The UC Berkeley study measured ambient conditions directly above 7th Street in a...
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| Waterworth named interim head of Houston port |
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Leonard Waterworth was appointed as interim executive director of the Houston Port Authority at a special Port Commission meeting on Monday. He succeeds Alec Dreyer, who announced last month he intended to relinquish his duties . “I look forward to serving the port,” Waterworth said in a statement. “It is really the heart of economic prosperity for this entire community. And it is a critically important economic engine for our region and nati...
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| New research to cut across infrastructure types |
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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The Urban Institute has established a multi-dimensional Infrastructure Initiative designed to inform the public and government officials about the important tradeoffs in developing, operating, maintaining and financing the nation's core systems that support society. The research effort will examine the fiscal, social and environmental costs and benefits of policy choices at all levels of government related to transportation, electrical, water, sewer, wireless and broadband ...
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| Hamburg Süd merges Seattle calls at SSA terminal |
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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The liner carrier Hamburg Süd said Friday it will begin consolidating its calls at the Port of Seattle's Terminal 18, operated by SSA Terminals. The German line, which calls Seattle on its services linking the port to Australia/New Zealand and North Europe/South America, had previously called at both Terminal 18 and Terminal 46, operated by Total Terminals International, a subsidiary of Hanjin. The line will start calling only at the SSA Terminals facility a...
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| Court holds up APMT Lazaro terminal |
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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A court in Mexico has put on hold a concession granted to APM Terminals’ to develop a new container terminal in the Port of Lazaro Cardenas. The terminal operator, a subsidiary of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, confirmed the delay to American Shipper . The suspension of the concession process arose from a court challenge by terminal operator Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), which operates the existing terminal in the Pacific coast port. APMT announ...
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| Houston Port Authority considers interim CEO |
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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The Port of Houston Authority Commission will hold a special session Monday to vote on hiring Leonard Waterworth as interim chief executive officer after Alec Dreyer, the current CEO last month indicated his intention to step down. Dreyer, a former energy industry executive, announced Dec. 13 that he planned to leave office once a replacement is found, telling the Houston Chronicle that he was frustrated by the political demands of the job. Dreyer's thr...
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| Norfolk expects export bump from MSC double call |
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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Mediterranean Shipping Co. will make a double call in Norfolk with its Golden Gate service between Asia and the U.S. East Coast, beginning the first week of February, according to Virginia Port Authority spokesman Joe Harris and American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data . The service, which transits the Suez Canal in both directions, also changed the order of arrival for several ports. The new rotation is Ningbo, Shanghai, Chiwan, Yantian, Singapore, Salaleh, New York, Nor...
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| VPA searches to fill idle Portsmouth terminal |
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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The Port of Virginia is still looking for a tenant for its vacant Portsmouth Marine Terminal after Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., the world's largest fertilizer maker in terms of production capacity, eliminated the site as a possible location for a new sulfur melting plant. The Canadian fertilizer giant scratched Portsmouth off its list after strong community opposition, the Virginian-Pilot reported Jan. 19. In a lett...
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| Mexican terminal picks Tideworks |
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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Tideworks Technology, a provider of terminal management and planning software, said SSA Mexico (SSAM) has deployed the new Forecast customer service Web portal at its container terminal at Manzanillo, Mexico. Both Tideworks and SSA Mexico are subsidiaries of Carrix, one of the largest privately held marine and rail terminal operators. The Forecast Website provides terminal customers including ocean carriers, trucking companies, and customs bro...
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| New Busan terminal gets first call |
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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The newest container terminal in Busan’s New Port deepwater container complex has received its first vessel call, the port said Monday. The ship, operated by the South Korean liner carrier KMTC on its service between Incheon and Hong Kong, arrived over the weekend at the Busan New Container Terminal (BNCT). The terminal, which began operations in December, is owned and operated by a consortium of eight partners. The largest shareholder is Macquarie Korea Infrastruct...
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| VPA starts clean fuel program with Maersk |
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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Maersk Line, the world's largest operator of container vessels, will become the first ocean carrier to take advantage of a new incentive program at the Port of Virginia designed to encourage transport companies to reduce air pollution from commercial vessels while at berth, both parties announced Thursday. The new initiative expands the Virginia Port Authority's Green Operator program, originally focused on providing financial support to replace older (more pollutin...
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| Foss 'rocket ship' strikes Kentucky bridge |
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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An unusual ship that transports rocket components struck a bridge Thursday night in western Kentucky. The vessel involved in the accident is Foss' Delta Mariner , a 312-foot-long, 8,000-horsepower supply ship that transports space-bound hardware, including the common booster cores, for the Boeing Delta IV rocket program. The Delta Mariner struck the Eggner Ferry Bridge, which services both U.S. Highway 68 and Kentucky Highway 80, resulting in its coll...
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| U.S. West Coast container volume drops in 2011 |
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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Total 2011 container volume at the major U.S. West Coast ports fell by 0.8 percent year-on-year, according to the maritime consultant Dynamar. Collective volume at Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, and Tacoma dropped to 19.1 million TEUs, compared to 19.2 million TEUs in 2010. As previously reported by American Shipper , Los Angeles saw volume rise 1.4 percent, while Long Beach volume fell 3.2 percent in 2011, mostly thanks to volume switching ...
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| Oakland looks within for appointments |
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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The Port of Oakland board of commissioners has appointed Jean Banker, most recently manager of finances and administration for the maritime division, as deputy executive director, the California port said Thursday. Banker came to Oakland in 2007. Prior to working at the port, she spent 13 years as deputy director of capital programs for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “Jean Banker brings significant experience to her new position,” s...
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| Belgian dock workers back strike |
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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Workers in the Port of Antwerp will support a planned 24-hour general transportation strike across Belgium, starting Monday morning, in protest against the country’s government to meet the European Union's financial targets. “Transport workers are playing a vital part in this strike,” said Paddy Crumlin, International Transport Workers' Federation president and chairman of the ITF dockers section. “Belgium’s docker unions will also be in the frontline, protesting against...
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| Mississippi River pilots seek 44-foot draft |
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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The Crescent River Port Pilots Association has decided to increase its maximum draft recommendation from 42 feet to 44 feet on the Lower Mississippi River. Capt. A.J. Gibbs said he made the recommendation Thursday after "reviewing the most current survey in the Pilottown Cubit's Gap area, and due to the successful transit of the two 44 feet test vessels." Sean M. Duffy Sr., executive director of the Big River Coalition, said the recommend...
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| Ports America relocates headquarters |
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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Ports America has relocated its headquarters from Iselin to Jersey City, N.J. The company is the largest independent marine terminal operator with operations at more than 80 terminals in 42 North American ports.
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| Curto calls for NY port unity |
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Curto Joseph Curto, president of the New York Shipping Association, called for unity among all players in the Port of New York and New Jersey, as he accepted the “Person of the Year” award from New York/New Jersey Foreign Freight Forwarders and Brokers Association Wednesday night. “At a time when infrastructure investment and the subsequent job creation are synonymous with economic recovery, we as a region and as an industry are well positioned to take advan...
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| CLARIFICATION: Dredging Miami's port |
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Wednesday's story on the Port of Miami, "Miami dredging faces lengthy delay," reported that a judge would hear the case involving petitions by environmental and neighborhood groups opposing the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's decision to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deep dredge the Miami ship channel. The judge referred to in the story is an administrative law judge within the Department of Environmental Protection, not a federal court judge. &...
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| Miami dredging faces lengthy delay |
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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The Port of Miami learned it will have to wait until late this year to find out if it can proceed with a much-anticipated project to deepen the main channel for next-generation containerships when the schedule for addressing a legal challenge to the excavation was released Tuesday by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The delay represents a major setback for the city, which wants to become a first port-of-call for carriers transiting from Asia and create...
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| Ports debate Panama Canal widening |
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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The ability to move larger ships through the Panama Canal will reduce the cost of all-water service between the Far East and the eastern part of the United States, but speakers at a conference held last week in Tampa, Fla. were divided on how significant theimpact of the canal will be on cargo routing. "We are not the fat hog waiting to be cut," said Dean Wise, vice president of network strategy for the BNSF Railway. "We are not going to sit back and see t...
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| COMMENTARY: Who says big ships are only for Asia-Europe? |
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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The liner carriers China Shipping, UASC, and CMA CGM took a bold step into the unknown last week. The lines announced they will deploy ships of between 12,500 and 14,000 TEUs on a loop between the Far East and Middle East, in effect merging two similar existing services operated with smaller ships into one. When the loop starts in early February, it will be the first service operated with ships of that size to not touch European ports. In essence, it will be...
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| WWL opens Moscow office |
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics said Tuesday it has opened a new office in Moscow to support its current Russian presence in St. Petersburg. “Moscow is the central vehicle logistics hub in Russia, a market that, after a short set-back in 2009, has seen rapid growth in the automotive and rolling equipment sector over the past years,” the company said in a statement. “The city is also a hub for several rail and trucking companies, important partners that support Wallenius W...
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