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Höegh Autoliners has launched its first Aurora class vessel, the largest and most environmentally friendly pure car truck carrier, or PCTC, ever built,
Three years since launching the design, the Höegh Aurora, was delivered at a naming ceremony at China Merchants Heavy Industry’s yard in Jiangsu, China, Aug. 8.
The Aurora class represents Höegh Autoliners’ transformational green fleet renewal program – 12 new multi-fuel-ready vessels that are the centerpiece of ...
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Galveston Wharves has started more than US$90 million in phased construction work to improve and expand its West Port Cargo Complex and grow its cargo business.Funded by port revenues and a US$36 million Texas government grant, the work will add 30 acres of cargo-handling area ...
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Drewry, the maritime research consultancy, said its Global Container Port Throughput Index increased 3.3 percent month over month from May to June, improving 5.5 percent year over year to 118.5 points.The rolling 12-month average growth rate for global port handling also rose to 4.4 percent ...
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French shipping line and logistics company CMA CGM said it plans to implement a peak season surcharge from the U.S. to the Caribbean, effective Sept. 23.The surcharge will be US$250 per 40-foot and 45-foot containers for dry cargo, US$300 per 20-footer and US$600 per 40-footer.The ...
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Supply chain infrastructure and solutions provider Savage said it is developing a new multicommodity, rail-connected transload terminal to serve the Las Vegas market.
The Las Vegas transload facility will be in Jean, Nevada, and served by the Union Pacific Railroad. Savage anticipates moving various fuels ...
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Work progresses on Port Canaveral’s US$39 million capital improvement project to remove the existing North Cargo Berth 4 and replace it with a 981-foot-long multipurpose, multi-use wharf, expected to be completed in the fourth quarter.The existing, functionally obsolete over-the-water pier has been out of service ...
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The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, or NOPB, said it is making significant progress on two major infrastructure enhancement projects – the Transloading Industrial Park and the Claiborne Yard expansion.The NOPB Transloading Industrial Park off Jourdan Road in New Orleans East will enable shippers to ...
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deugro Oman has delivered a 254-tonne well fluid slug catcher from Nizwa, Oman via the Port of Duqm, Oman, to Mina Zayed Port, Abu Dhabi, UAE.deugro was awarded the contract for this project based on the technical concept, including a sophisticated transport engineering solution and ...
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Chipolbrok said the Boym, the sixth vessel in a series of 62,000-DWT multipurpose ships ordered by the Polish-Chinese shipping line in 2021, set sail on its maiden voyage Aug. 9.The Boym, which joins as a third-party vessel within Chipolbrok’s collection, was recently christened at Taizhou ...
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Challenges arising from a global economic downturn, shifts in consumer behavior, and an oversupply shipping capacity have led the global freight forwarding market to contract by 1.3 percent in 2023, according to a report from Ti Insight.
The Global Freight Forwarding 2024 Report, Ti Insight, ...
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