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Puerto Rico Ports Authority welcomes JAXPORT leadership to San Juan

The Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Ports Authority (PRPA), Joel A. Pizá Batiz, welcomed Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) leadership to San Juan recently during JAXPORT’s four-day business development trip to the island. “We are extremely pleased to welcome Chief Executive Officer Eric Green, Chief Operating Officer Fred Wong, and Director of Cruise and Cargo Development Alberto Cabrera, who responded to our invitation to visit our maritime cargo and cruise ship ... [+]

10 consecutive months of growth in Savannah

The Port of Savannah handled 478,620 TEUs in May, an increase of 41.9% compared to last year. It was the second busiest month in the port’s history, and the 10th consecutive month of positive year-over-year growth.Port officials said the facilities saw a fast recovery from ... [+]

DB Schenker invests in Gideon Brothers

DB Schenker and Gideon Brothers announced an investment by the global leading logistics service provider into the Croatian robotics and AI solutions company. DB Schenker joins a $31 million Series A investment to accelerate the development and commercialization of its AI & 3D vision-based autonomous ... [+]

Port Houston Records Best May Ever

Port Houston continues to make waves with another month of double-digit container cargo increases through the Houston Ship Channel and its best May ever for container TEUs.TEUs in May showed a 30% increase, with 288,127 TEUs compared to last year’s 222,250 TEUs for the same ... [+]

May Holds Record Volume & Record-Setting Vessel for POV

The Port of Virginia® in May set a new record for monthly TEU volume handled nearly 315,000 units and in doing so surpassing the previous record by nearly 30,000 units.Contributing to the month’s volume was the CMA CGM Marco Polo, which at 16,000-plus TEUs is ... [+]

ABC signs contract for WFS’s new H-JAIA cargo terminal

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group, has signed a three-year contract to become the launch customer of Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) new cargo terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (H-JAIA). Under the terms of the agreement, WFS will handle some 9,500 tonnes of cargo ... [+]

Port of Long Beach Achieves Record Month

The Port of Long Beach continued its unprecedented streak of single-month records in May by moving more than 900,000 cargo containers for the first time in its 110-year history. Dockworkers and terminal operators processed 907,216 twenty-foot equivalent units in May and broke the previous "best ... [+]

U.S. Department of Commerce awards $1.6 million

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Agency announced a $1.6 million grant to The Water Institute of the Gulf for the development of a Lower Mississippi River SmartPort & Resilience Center (SmartPort). This federal award adds to $1.4 million in matching funding from the ... [+]

AIT Worldwide Logistics acquires Multimodal International.

Supply chain solutions leader AIT Worldwide Logistics today announced the acquisition of Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based Multimodal International, Ltd., a licensed U.S. Customs broker with four decades of experience in the automotive, machine tools, metals, electronics and chemical industries. AIT’s latest acquisition ... [+]

Port of LA adopts $1.7B FY 2021/22 budget

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners has approved a $1.7 billion FY 2021/22 annual budget for the Port of Los Angeles. The approval comes on the heels of record cargo volumes during FY 2020/21, which Port officials credit to a rapid recovery in global ... [+]

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