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Stevedores with SSA Cooper at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal recently moved two heavy-lift turbine rotors bound for a San Juan, Puerto Rico power plant. The rotors will be used to generate electricity for the people of Puerto Rico.
The rotors, weighing 97,000 and 125,000 lbs. and measuring 17 and 19 ft. in length, were transported individually to Jacksonville via 11-axle and 13-axle tractor trailers from the Virginia manufacturing facility where ...
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Robert van de Weg has been promoted to the post of Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Volga-Dnepr Group.
In his new role, Robert assumes commercial responsibility for both the Group’s scheduled cargo operations and charter businesses, namely AirBridgeCargo Airlines, Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Atran ...
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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won a three-year contract to provide cargo handling and trucking services for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in the UK.
WFS will handle export and import cargo for PIA’s wide-bodied flights at London Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester, connecting customers in the UK ...
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CaroTrans recently announced a new direct, weekly LCL service from Atlanta to Nhava Sheva, India to address increased demand from the U.S. Southeast and Gulf regions. This service offers extremely competitive transit times, from the Gulf - 38 days, and the Southeast - 33 days.
At ...
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Crowley Liner Services recently became one of the first private companies in the nation to be certified and validated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as part of its new Marine Port Terminal Operator (MPTO) designation, known as the AQUA Lane program. Following on-site ...
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East Coast Warehouse & Distribution announced that it has completed a rigorous accreditation process to receive the Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This designation puts East Coast Warehouse at the forefront of the Food Safety Modernization Act ...
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Hamburg Süd has been awarded gold, the highest-possible recognition level, for its evaluation completed in July 2016 by the supply chain sustainability network EcoVadis.
The scorecard provided by independent sustainability expert EcoVadis indicates that Hamburg Süd has achieved advanced sustainability management practice. The gold rating is ...
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Port Manatee has promoted Denise Stufflebeam to senior director of business administration and finance and Virginia Zimmermann to senior communications manager.
Stufflebeam, who has served since 2013 as Port Manatee’s director of business administration and finance, joined the port in 1991 as information services assistant and ...
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Ports America and Cooper/T. Smith have merged their breakbulk operations in the Port of Houston into a new joint venture (JV) called Cooper/Ports America, LLC, which will be referred to as C/PA. Operations commenced on Oct. 1, 2016.
Additionally, C/PA agreed to acquire all the assets of Shippers Stevedoring and Chaparral Stevedoring under C/PA’s operations upon startup. Integrated ...
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SeaLand has introduced the Port of Hueneme as a new port call on its West Coast Central America (WCCA) Service. This direct service started on Sept. 13, 2016. WCCA offers weekly service between Southern California, Mexico, Central America, and the West Coast of South America, ...
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