Gary G Burrows
The Port of Long Beach has been awarded $2.4 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help Stevedoring Services of America (SSA), Foss Maritime and Curtin Maritime replace equipment with zero-emission or cleanest-available equipment.
The Diesel Emission Reduction Act money will enable SSA to retrofit three rubber-tired gantry cranes to all-electric operations, entirely reducing related emissions and diesel fuel consumption. The funds will also assist in retrofitting four tugboats operated ...
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On November 9th, Port Freeport Commissioners agreed to extend the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) for an additional five years. In 2012, both parties signed the MOU as a joint effort to help promote business between the ACP and Port Freeport.
"On June 26, 2016, the ...
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Foreign Trade Zone No. 62 (FTZ) at the Port of Brownsville ranks second in the nation for the value of exports during 2016, according to the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board's annual report to Congress released Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.
Dorchester County, South Carolina, and Miami-Dade County, Florida are ranked first ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo has commenced direct freighter service to Yangon, Myanmar. The Doha-Yangon-Doha route is served once-a-week with the Airbus A330 freighter, providing more than 60 tons of cargo capacity each way.
Qatar Airways’ Acting Chief Officer Cargo, Mr. Guillaume Halleux, said: “We are delighted to launch our eighth freighter ...
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World Container Index: Drewry assessment on Thursday, 16 November 2017
• The composite index is down by 10.5% this week and down by 16.2% from the same period of 2016.
• The average composite index of the WCI, assessed by Drewry for year-to-date, is US $1,493/40ft container, which is $113 lower than ...
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The Fiscal Year 2018 Operating and Capital Budget was approved on November 14 during a special meeting of the Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority. Solid financial performance is expected to continue in 2018.
Port Houston projects total revenue growing 9% over the 2017 mid-year forecast, fueled by container ...
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American Airlines Cargo was honored to successfully transport more than six tons of China’s national treasures from Beijing to Los Angeles in order to bring selections from the Summer Palace Museum to the United States for the first time.
In conjunction with the Bowers Museum, one of Orange County’s finest and ...
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On the heels of reporting 32% growth in containerized trade for October, an all-time record for Savannah, the Georgia Ports Authority approved rail and gate expansion projects that will significantly increase capacity at GPA’s Garden City Terminal – the single largest container terminal in all of North America.
“A strong Southeast ...
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Hapag-Lloyd closed the third quarter of 2017 with a significant positive Group net profit and a much improved operating result (EBIT). The integration with United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) is almost completed and on schedule to be finalized by the end of the year.
For the third quarter the net profit ...
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JAXPORT has begun construction of a new automobile processing terminal, the first phase of a multi-year project which will increase the port’s vehicle handling capacity by 25%.
Once completed, the facility will add more than 100 acres of processing and storage space on JAXPORT’s Dames Point Marine Terminal and offers vessels ...
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