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Gary G Burrows

GPA tops 5.5M TEUs, 650K units in 2021

Port of Savannah moved a record 5.6 million TEUs in CY 2021, growing volumes by a million TEUs, or 20%, compared to 2020. In Brunswick, Colonel’s Island Terminal handled 649,550 units of cars, trucks and machinery, an increase of 10.6%.The Port of Savannah has experienced 12 consecutive months of record container growth. December was no exception, with a record 465,000 TEUs handled, and an all-time high of 312,000 truck gate ... [+]

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol records increase in cargo throughput in 2021

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s total cargo volume for 2021 increased by 15.7% to 1.66 million tonnes compared to 2020. Last year, inbound cargo volumes increased by 15.2% to 869,241 tonnes in 2021 compared to 2020, and outbound cargo volumes also increased by 16.1% to 798,063 tonnes during the same period. The top three ... [+]

Emirates SkyCargo Receives Award

Emirates SkyCargo has been named as the ‘Safest Global Airline Partner’ for the year 2021 for the transportation of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical shipments by SkyCell, one of the leading global manufacturers of specialized containers for the transportation of sensitive pharmaceuticals by air. The title was awarded to Emirates on the ... [+]

Mid-Chesapeake Bay Island Ecosystem Restoration receives $37.5m

The Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA) project to use dredged material to restore a pair of vanishing islands off the coast of Dorchester County received a major boost the week of January 17 with allocation of $37.5 million in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) ... [+]

Port NOLA closes 2021 with major milestones in all four lines of business

The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) ended the year in 2021 strengthening its economic benefit to the region and state with wins across all four of its lines of business: cargo, rail, industrial real estate and cruise. The calendar year closed with breakbulk and bulk volumes up 46% from ... [+]

Port of Long Beach Sets Annual Record

The Port of Long Beach set a new record in 2021 by moving 9.38 million cargo containers as dockworkers and terminal operators worked to clear the docks amid an historic, pandemic-induced import surge. The Port ended 2021 with 9,384,368 twenty-foot equivalent units processed, a 15.7% increase from the previous record of ... [+]

Port of Oakland import volume hit new record in 2021

Containerized, loaded import cargo volume hit a new record at the Port of Oakland in 2021. The Port reported that it handled the equivalent of 1.05 million 20-foot import containers in 2021. That was the most in Oakland’s 94-year history and 6 percent above 2020 totals. Record import volume was achieved ... [+]

Schneider intermodal moving western rail service to Union Pacific

Schneider announced on January 19 that the company is expanding intermodal service by moving its primary western United States rail partnership to Union Pacific beginning in 2023.Schneider has one of the largest intermodal fleets in North America with over 25,000 containers and plans to double the company’s intermodal size by ... [+]

$32,700,000 to Support Repairs to Coos Bay

The Oregon International Port of Coos Bay received notification on January 19 from House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio that the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) included $32,700,000 million in their FY2022 disaster relief supplemental appropriations workplan to support repairs to the North Jetty. The ... [+]

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increased 1% in December

American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1% in December after rising 0.5% in November. In December, the index equaled 114.7 (2015=100) compared with 113.5 in November.“December’s gain was the fifth straight totaling 4.4%,” said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. “In December, tonnage reached the ... [+]

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