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CaroTrans Launches Atlanta-Nhava Sheva Service in Response to Market Demand

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 destination, shipments are securely handled and deconsolidated by CaroTrans' dedicated partner, Globelink WW India, which provides full India market penetration serviced from 15+ inland container ... [+]

Crowley among First Private Companies to Earn U.S. AQUA Lane Certification from CBP

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 ... [+]

Hamburg Süd receives gold rating from EcoVadis

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 ... [+]

Port Manatee promotes Stufflebeam, Zimmermann

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 ... [+]

Ports America and Cooper/T. Smith form new Houston JV

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 ... [+]

SeaLand adds Port of Hueneme to WCCA service

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, ... [+]

King of the Caribbean

Liebherr Maritime Crane recently delivered the biggest mobile harbour crane of the Caribbean to Kingston Wharves Limited in Jamaica. The LHM 600 is equipped with an elongated tower extension and eases the handling of big container vessels up to Super-Post-Panamax size. In November 2015 Kingston Wharves ... [+]

POLB September Cargo Weighed Down by Hanjin Bankruptcy

Port of Long Beach container volumes declined 16.6% year-over-year in September, as the effects of the Hanjin bankruptcy reached West Coast ports. Longshore workers moved 546,805 TEUs last month. This included 282,945 TEUs in imports, down 15% from September 2015, a month which capped off the ... [+]

Solid Business Activity Continues at the Port of Houston Authority

“Container activity is solid at the Port of Houston Authority,” Executive Director Roger Guenther announced in his report to the Port Commission today, during its regular September meeting. “Container TEUs are within one percent of last year’s volume, and in fact,” he added, “August 2016 ... [+]

Best Practices for Merchant Marine

The Maritime Administration (MARAD) has signed a $198,000 cooperative agreement with the Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP) to develop interactive Computer Based Training Modules, a Best Practices Tool Kit, and other training materials concerning appropriate shipboard climate within the U.S. Merchant Marine. The training material ... [+]

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