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Port of Oakland March container volume rises

Oakland’s March total container volume increased 10.7% over February 2023 volume. Overall exports (loaded and empty containers) rose 13.1% compared to February 2023. Overall imports also rose by 7.9%.This March marks the first month since November 2020 that Port of Oakland loaded exports have outpaced full imports.“Exports are very important to Oakland and it’s great to see an upswing in our total export cargo volume compared to February; we hope ... [+]

SC Ports celebrates growth of inland Port of Dillion

South Carolina Ports celebrates the five-year anniversary of Inland Port Dillon with record number of containers handled at the rail-served inland port in March.“It was five years ago — almost to the day — that we were here opening this facility. What an accomplished five ... [+]

Schneider to add Mexico to upper Midwest intermodal service

Schneider National Inc. announced on April 21 that it will offer customers intermodal service on the newly merged Canadian Pacific Kansas City, which connects the upper Midwest of the United States and Mexico.Schneider will be a strategic intermodal carrier on CPKC’s north-south flagship intermodal service ... [+]

Steady container export growth for Port Houston

Activity across Port Houston’s docks remains steady through March with total tonnage through the eight public terminals up 4% year to date, reaching 12,850,330 short tons. Amidst a nationwide softening of imports, in March, Port Houston continued to see significant demand in loaded export containers.Loaded ... [+]

WestJet Cargo, GTA Group inaugurate three 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters

WestJet Cargo, together with the GTA Group, inaugurated the launch of three 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters on April 20 in Toronto. More celebrations are planned today in Halifax and on April 25 in Vancouver. The event marked the start of a dedicated cargo service designed ... [+]

Grimaldi takes delivery of new “G5” vessel Great Antwerp

The Grimaldi Group took delivery of the vessel Great Antwerp on April 18 at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. Ltd. in Ulsan, South Korea. This is the first of the six multipurpose ro-ro units commissioned from the Korean company just over two years ago. The ... [+]

Nearly 2,500 pieces of military cargo move through JAXPORT

The Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) recently facilitated the movement of nearly 2,500 pieces of U.S. military cargo, including almost 100 aircraft. The move took place during two shipments over March at the port’s Blount Island Marine Terminal.The U.S. Army’s South Carolina-based 841st Transportation Battalion managed ... [+]

New cargo service at Port Canaveral

Blue Water Industries, a leading national bulk materials supplier has entered into an agreement with Port Canaveral terminal operator Ambassador Services International (ASI) to import between 400,000 to 800,000 metric tons annually of various sized aggregate through Port Canaveral. Scheduled deliveries of the products originating ... [+]

Port of Corpus Christi sees record tonnage in 1st Quarter 2023

The Port of Corpus Christi Authority closed its first quarter of 2023 (Q1-2023) with record tonnage of 49.6 million tons, surpassing the year-over-year (YOY) period in 2022 by more than six million tons and nudging past the previous quarterly record of 49.5 million tons set ... [+]

Rehabilitative work to 10 steel bridges on Coos Bay Rail Line concludes

In 2019, the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay received a grant of $20 million through the BUILD program from the Federal government and matching funds of $5 million from the State of Oregon to complete a comprehensive rehabilitation program for 15 steel bridges along ... [+]

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