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Panama Canal Prepares for the Future

Amidst current challenges, the Panama Canal is taking proactive measures to ensure its competitiveness and operational capacity for the future. Chief among these challenges is the critical issue of freshwater availability for both the population's consumption and the transit of vessels.During a recent presentation to local and international media, Panama Canal Administrator Ricaurte Vásquez Morales highlighted the ongoing efforts by Canal specialists to manage saltwater intrusion in the Gatun reservoir, ... [+]

COSCO Launches East Coast of South America to Europe (ESE2) Service

COSCO Shipping recently announced a new weekly service ESE2, connecting North Europe and Mediterranean to the East Coast of South America (ECSA) to be launched in September 2023, providing customers with high quality and more efficient product. The new branded ESE2 service will commence in Montevideo ... [+]

Port Houston welcomes 3 new cranes to fleet

Three new neo-Panamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes arrived at Port Houston's Bayport Container Terminal last week following a 72-day voyage on the Zhen Hua 29, a specialized heavy-load carrier vessel.The ZPMC cranes, which were produced in Shanghai, traveled nearly 16,000 nautical miles to reach Houston. These ... [+]

Pasha Hawaii’s Newest Green Vessel Visits Long Beach

The Port of Long Beach welcomed the latest green container vessel to Pasha Hawaii's fleet, the MV Janet Marie.The Janet Marie, the company's second of two "Ohana Class" container ships powered by liquefied natural gas, made its maiden voyage early Saturday from Long Beach to ... [+]

Port Authorities Awarded Increased Share of FY 2023 Port Security Funding

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released its funding allocations for the Fiscal Year 2023 Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) awards, which which will be distributed to 40 port authorities along with numerous terminal operators, municipalities, and policing entities for enhancing and protecting critical port ... [+]

GPA achieves record Ro/Ro in FY2023

The Georgia Ports Authority handled record Roll-on/Roll-off volumes in Fiscal Year 2023, at more than 723,500 units, an increase of 18 percent or nearly 109,000 units over the previous year. “The Port of Brunswick achieved strong growth in the import and export of heavy machinery, while ... [+]

Leaders celebrate projects to improve transportation

The Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC), Port of Oakland, and City of Oakland announced important milestones for two major transportation improvement projects at the Port of Oakland.The two projects celebrated include: A Ribbon Cutting for the Freight Intelligent Transportation Systems (FITS) Project: Installation of ... [+]

Phase I of channel deepening project moves forward for Port of Brownsville

The Brazos Island Harbor (BIH) Channel Improvement Project continues to move forward, as Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation announced the receipt of Notice to Proceed to perform essential improvements to the Brownsville ship channel for NextDecade Corporation’s Rio Grande LNG project at the Port ... [+]

Port of South Louisiana Sees Growth in Tonnage

BIZ New Orleans report that the Port of South Louisiana said it saw an annual increase in tonnage of nearly 10 million short tons of cargo in 2022. The port said it moved a total of 239,257,758 short tons last year compared to a total ... [+]

‘Clean Canaveral’ Completes First LNG Bunkering

The Clean Canaveral liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge has completed its first barge-to-ship bunkering of a cargo vessel at Port Canaveral’s South Cargo Berth 4. JAX LNG, along with Polaris New Energy, handled the LNG refueling of the M/T Damia Desgagnés on the ship’s ... [+]

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