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POLB Delivers Best October in Eight Years

The docks continued to be busy at the Port of Long Beach in October as cargo volume rose 6.3% compared to the same month last year, making for the best October in eight years. The gains also come on the heels of the top quarter in the Port’s 104-year history. Strong export growth of 6.5% in October buoyed the Port’s overall numbers as shippers turned to the Port of Long Beach ... [+]

Little Increase for Rotterdam Port Tariffs

The tariffs which visiting sea-going vessels pay in Rotterdam will increase by 0.5% next year. That is half of the past year’s inflation rate. This is in accordance with the three-year agreement made last year between Deltalinqs, VRC, VNPI and the Port Authority on changes ... [+]

Port of Houston Commissions New Super Post-Panamax STS Crane

The Port of Houston Authority has commissioned the first of four new Super Post-Panamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes at its Barbours Cut Container Terminal. The four 30-story high electric cranes are the largest ever constructed by Konecranes, and currently stand taller than any other marine cranes in ... [+]

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, ... [+]

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 ... [+]

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