Freight News
The Port of Portland has worked to create another new option for moving container freight by way of a railway partnership at Terminal 6. Starting the first week of January, shippers can move their product on a rail shuttle to the Puget Sound ports.
The new service, in partnership with BNSF Railway, will move containers between Portland and Seattle/Tacoma, where goods can be loaded onto ocean carriers. The rail service will ...
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Governor Kate Brown appointed Alice Cuprill-Comas as Port of Portland Commission President, effective Dec. 27.
Cuprill-Comas is senior vice president and general counsel for Oregon Health & Science University, and she replaces Jim Carter who completed an eight-year term as Commission President, and who agreed to ...
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Shanghai Port has surpassed its annual handling capacity of 40 million TEUs, says Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG). In 1978, the port had a handling capacity of 7.951 TEU. China’s official press agency, Xinhau, reports that Ningbo-Zhoushan Port has exceeded 10 million TEUs, up 16% ...
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The Port of Corpus Christi recognizes the two-year anniversary of Congress lifting the ban on exports of crude oil, and proud to have played a role in the expansion of the United States as a global leader in energy trade. Legislation to lift the export ...
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Motor carriers moving cargo to and from Norfolk International Terminals (NIT) are finding even greater efficiency in reaching the terminal’s North Gate and nearby I-564 with the opening of the I-564 Intermodal Connector on December 21.
The Connector is a dedicated ramp that provides a safe, ...
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The Port of Seattle Commission has appointed retired U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Stephen P. Metruck as its new Executive Director. Metruck has 34 years of executive experience in maritime, security and financial leadership. Most recently he was Commander of the Mid-Atlantic Region, overseeing 3,600 ...
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The Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) and APM Terminals boards of directors in separate actions have approved a $49.5 million expansion of the container facility at the Port of Mobile. The Port Authority and APM Terminals jointly will deliver a Phase 3 expansion that includes ...
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Calabasas, California-based Harbor Freight Tools has broken ground on a one-million square foot expansion of its Dillon, S.C. distribution center. The facility is within the Carolinas I-95 Mega Site, a 3,400-acre industrial park situated between Dillon and Latta near the North Carolina border. That mega ...
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The Marland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA) recently received $1,189,600 through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s federal port security grant program to improve security initiatives at the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore's public marine terminals. The funding, from the U.S. ...
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JAXPORT achieved double-digit growth in container volumes in the first two months of fiscal year 2018, moving 204,492 TEUs, compared to 165,571 TEU during the same period in FY2017. JAXPORT’s fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
JAXPORT’s Asian container volumes continue to grow, up ...
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