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October 2019

Port Manatee breaks fiscal year cargo records again

         Port Manatee has again broken multiple fiscal year cargo records, including topping 10 million tons of total annual throughput for the first time in its 50-year history and enjoying a year-over-year increase of nearly 50 percent in containerized cargo activity. In its fiscal year ended Sept. 30, the diverse Southwest Florida Gulf Coast port established new highs in total tonnage, containerized cargo units and tons and liquid and ... [+]

PortsToronto Launches Phase Two of Seabin Pilot Program

Following the success of this summer's Seabin Pilot Program at Toronto's Outer Harbor Marina, PortsToronto announced the launch of phase two of the project which includes the deployment of two additional Seabins in Toronto's harbor. Secured to a floating dock positioned in the northeast corner of the York Street Slip, ... [+]

Sterling Transportation Miami Now an Official CFS / IBEC

Sterling Transportation is proud to announce that its Miami terminal is now an official Container Freight Station with a Firm Code of LBZ0 and an IBEC (In-Bond Export Consolidator). The Miami terminal is a state-of-the-art 35,000 sq. ft. stand-alone building with 24-hour security. It is open 7 days a week and ... [+]

Turkish Cargo keeps reinforcing its fleet with Boeing 777F freighters.

Turkish Cargo, the fastest growing air cargo brand of the world, included the sixth Boeing-777 Freighter, capable of flying at a range of 9200 km, without any limitation, to its fleet. Taking off from Everett Paine Airport (Seattle/USA) and landing at Ataturk Airport on October 9, the Boeing-777 Freighter falls under ... [+]

USTR Announces Duties on European Goods

On October 9, 2019, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a notice in the Federal Register, 84 FR 25245, of the final list of products related to trade remedy actions under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, for large civil aircraft, that will be ... [+]

Hermes Logistics Technologies to Deliver Cargo Management Solutions

Menzies Aviation has selected Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) to provide the Cargo Management System (CMS) for its global network. The most recent version of HLT’s flagship CMS, Hermes 5 (H5), will be rolled out at Menzies cargo facilities from Q1 next year. “After benchmarking the industry, we selected H5 as our cargo ... [+]

Port of Corpus Christi Sets Tonnage Records

The Port of Corpus Christi recently set three new tonnage records, including the highest volume in a single month. September tonnage was 12.2 million tons, a 27% gain over the previous record set in March of 2018. Two other tonnage records broken included the highest quarter ever at 32.1 million ... [+]

Virginia’s Path to 55 Feet is Set; First Phase of Dredging Will Begin by January 2020

The effort to make The Port of Virginia® the deepest port on the U.S. East Coast will begin by January 2020, following the finalization this week of a contract with an international dredging firm that will take on the project’s initial phase. On Oct. 9, John F. Reinhart, CEO and executive ... [+]

Engineering & Design to begin for Port of Mobile Deepening

The Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) director and chief executive officer James K. Lyons and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mobile District commander Colonel Sebastien Joly signed the Mobile Harbor Pre-Construction, Engineering and Design Agreement on October 2 at the Port Authority’s headquarters in downtown Mobile. The engineering ... [+]

LOT Cargo signs Master Lease Agreement with CSafe Global

LOT Cargo, a leading carrier with cargo transports to, from, and within Europe, recently signed a Master Lease Agreement with CSafe Global, the innovation leader in active temperature-controlled air cargo containers, to extend cold-chain transportation offerings to their life-science customers who ship temperature-sensitive and life-enhancing products to patients around the ... [+]

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