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Chiquita, TA Dedicated Refine Banana Logistics

Chiquita Fresh North America and TA Dedicated are marking 20 years of a transportation relationship supporting the movement of bananas from U.S. ports into the grocery distribution network. The partnership represents the inland portion of a highly specialized cold chain in which maintaining temperature, transit times and equipment availability is critical to moving a perishable commodity from producing regions to consumers. TA Dedicated, a TFI International company, manages transportation operations moving Chiquita ... [+]

Crowley Adds Houston-Central America Service

Crowley will launch a new weekly container service connecting Port Houston with Guatemala and Honduras beginning Sept. 10, expanding direct U.S. Gulf connections with Central America. The Gulf-Central America Express Service will connect Houston with Santo Tomás de Castilla, Guatemala, and Puerto Cortés, Honduras, with Thursday ... [+]

Jones Act Waiver Raises Questions

For more than five months, foreign-flag vessels have been permitted to carry cargo between U.S. ports under an emergency waiver of the Jones Act intended to address an immediate adverse effect on military operations. The cargoes actually moved under that authority, however, have ranged well beyond ... [+]

Corpus Christi Joins Maritime Nuclear Drive

The U.S. Department of Transportation and Port of Corpus Christi have signed an agreement to explore small modular reactor technology for maritime applications, making Corpus Christi the second major U.S. port to join the Maritime Administration's developing nuclear maritime initiative. Under a memorandum of cooperation signed ... [+]

AAL Moves 12,000 Tonnes for US Power Project

AAL Shipping has completed a 12,000-freight-ton shipment of heavy power generation equipment from Asia to Houston for a major U.S. natural gas power development. The project cargo movement comprised 195 individual units transported aboard the 31,000-deadweight-ton AAL Kobe, one of AAL Shipping's A-Class multipurpose heavy-lift vessels. The ... [+]

‘K’ Line Orders VLCCs for Middle East-Asia

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (“K” Line) has signed agreements with Nihon Shipyard Co. Ltd. for construction of three very large crude carriers designed for Middle East-Asia crude trades. The 311,000-deadweight-ton vessels will be built to Malaccamax dimensions, allowing them to efficiently transit the Strait of Malacca ... [+]

Jones Act Waiver Extended Through November

The Trump administration has extended its Jones Act waiver for another 90 days, continuing to allow foreign-flag vessels to move certain cargoes between U.S. ports as the government seeks to ease energy supply pressures stemming from disruptions in the Middle East. The latest extension took effect ... [+]

Drewry Challenges Cause of Port Congestion

Worsening container port congestion is exposing a fundamental disagreement over what is causing it: too little investment in terminal capacity, or an industrywide drive for higher asset utilization that has left the supply chain with too little room for disruption. A.P. Moller-Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc recently ... [+]

Chiquita, TA Dedicated Refine Banana Logistics

Chiquita Fresh North America and TA Dedicated are marking 20 years of a transportation relationship supporting the movement of bananas from U.S. ports into the grocery distribution network. The partnership represents the inland portion of a highly specialized cold chain in which maintaining temperature, transit times ... [+]

Export Disruptions Weigh on Tanker Demand

Tanker demand is weakening as disruptions to oil exports from the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Russia reduce seaborne cargo volumes, according to BIMCO's August Tanker Shipping Market Overview and Outlook. BIMCO forecasts crude tanker demand will fall 10.5 percent to 12.5 percent in 2026 if ... [+]