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PortRisk Assess Risk in Ports

Risk Intelligence has launched of PortRisk, a service that makes comprehensive and reliable intelligence on risk in ports available on demand. PortRisk provides security information and threat, vulnerability and risk assessment covering countries, ports and cities. Together with MaRisk, PortRisk delivers intelligence for maritime planning, decision-making, and operations. Risk Intelligence supplies 12% of the world fleet with MaRisk, their maritime security intelligence service. But they realized their customers were looking for ... [+]

World’s Largest Containership Sails under French Flag

The CMA CGM Group now sails the largest containership in the world, the CMA CGM Bougainville. Inaugurated on October 6th by French President François Hollande in Le Havre, the ship is deployed on the French Asia Line (FAL) – a CMA CGM’s emblematic shipping line ... [+]

GCT Canada orders 8 electric, wide-span cranes

GCT Canada has commenced its GCT Deltaport Intermodal Yard Reconfiguration project. The company confirms its  (WSCs) from crane manufacturer, Austria-based Künz. The state-of-the-art, 41-tonne lift capacity WSCs will increase train handling speed at GCT Deltaport. Already boasting the largest on-dock rail yard in North America, the ... [+]

Fitch Gives Alameda Corridor a Stable Rating

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the following ratings for Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, CA (ACTA): --$796 million senior revenue bonds series 1999A, 1999C, 2013A at 'A'; --$746 million subordinate revenue bonds series 2004A and 2004B at 'BBB+'. The Rating Outlook on all bonds is Stable. ACTA also has $83.7 ... [+]

Ambitious Plans for Port of Brunswick

The Georgia Ports Authority has an ambitious capital improvement plan for Port of Brunswick terminals. GPA Executive Director Curtis Foltz reveals that over the past decade, the GPA has spent $46.2 million on infrastructure upgrades at the Port of Brunswick. Over the next 10 years, ... [+]

ACL Deploys Huge CONRO-vessel, the Atlantic Star

Atlantic Container Line (ACL) has taken delivery of the Atlantic Star, a first of its kind vessel and the largest RoRo/container ship (CONRO) ever built. The first of five new vessels in the G4 fleet, the new ship will join the company’s trans-Atlantic service in ... [+]

Port of Oakland Task Force Seeks to Improve Cargo Flow

With the summer-long labor shortages over at the Port of Oakland, members of the Port Efficiency Task Force are now looking at ways to improve efficiency and speed up cargo flow. The Task Force met for the second time in late October is address goals. “There has ... [+]

POLB Accomplishes “Greenest Port in the World”

The Port of Long Beach announced in October that it has surpassed every air pollution reduction milestone set for 2014 due to air quality improvement programs, including cleaner diesel trucks, low sulfur fuel, and the increased use of shore power for ships. According to an annual ... [+]

Now That’s Job Growth!

Port of Houston’s Statewide Economic Impact Surged 45% since 2011 Politicians scream jobs, jobs, jobs. The Port of Houston has proven results. Since 2011, nearly 148,000 new jobs have been generated by cargo and vessel activity at Port of Houston terminals. An economic impact study by Martin ... [+]

MPA Names New Director for Harbor Dredging Program

With steamships getting bigger, dredging is increasingly critical to seaports such as Maryland Port Administration’s Port of Baltimore. “Dredging has become a very critical component of furthering the MPA’s mission of promoting waterborne commerce through Maryland in a way that provides economic benefits for our state,” ... [+]

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