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North Carolina Ports has added maritime industry veteran Benjamin M. Massa to its staff as the new Director of Carrier and Trade Development. At North Carolina Ports, Massa will apply his extensive experience to further grow and expand container business at the Port of Wilmington.
“Ben brings a wealth of experience from leadership roles in port development, ocean carrier trade management, as well as agency operations and management,” said NC Ports ...
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Maintaining its positive run in 2018, Bahri, a global leader in transportation and logistics, accepted the delivery of ‘Qamran’, a Very Large Crude-oil Carrier (VLCC), to further strengthen its market-leading position in crude oil transportation and enhance its maritime offering.
The 300,000-DWT carrier is the third ...
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Port Manatee officials are encouraged about expansion of international commerce following a joint meeting with trade commissioners from eight countries.
“This is the first time we’ve had so many trade commissioners assembled at one location,” Carlos Buqueras, executive director of Port Manatee, said of the International ...
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A battery-powered truck has entered the Port of Oakland fleet for the first time, testing the feasibility of zero-emission freight hauling. The Port said today that GSC Logistics, a major California trucking operator, introduced the 10-ton rig earlier this month. It's the only electric truck ...
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The Port of Los Angeles handled 808,728 TEUs in January 2018, the second-busiest January in the port’s history behind last January’s record of 826,640 TEUs. While a slight decrease compared to last January’s record, it’s significantly higher than the port’s most recent 5-year January average ...
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SEKO Logistics is continuing its global expansion with the opening of its second largest operation in Europe at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Logistics Park.
The new facility doubles the size of SEKO’s previous locations in Amsterdam and brings its entire service offering under one roof for customers using ...
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United Cargo has acknowledged the ‘outstanding achievement’ of the Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) team in Amsterdam for winning the airline’s ‘Best Station of the Year’ in its Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) region in 2017 and for a third consecutive year.
The award was ...
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More than 8,000 brand new containers with the distinctive red exterior paint and white lettering Hamburg Süd have been delivered by the container factory of Maersk Container Industry (MCI) in the Chinese city of Dongguan. The 40' high cube standard Hamburg Süd containers which have ...
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has signed a concession agreement with the Port of Zeebrugge to develop 49 hectares of land known as the Bastenaken West property located in the inner port. With this concession, in place until 2043, the company will nearly double its terminal footprint. WWL will ...
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Evergreen Marine Corp. (EMC) has entered into an agreement with Shoei Kisen Kaisha today to charter twelve 11,000 TEU class containerships. The charter parties were signed by EMC Chairman Anchor Chang and President of Shoei Kisen Kaisha Yukito Higaki.
The plans to charter these vessels were ...
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