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Ports of Indiana Boost Infrastructure, Staff

Ports of Indiana is nearing completion of $1.2 million in infrastructure improvement projects launched at Mount Vernon in 2023 and has ramped up its engineering and accounting resources. The Ports of Indiana-Mount Vernon infrastructure projects included purchasing of a winch system for positioning barges at the general cargo dock, installation of 1,360 new railroad ties and new rail switches; asphalt repairs on Port Road, the port’s main artery, underwater inspections of ... [+]

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Places Order with Kalmar

Norwegian logistics service provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen has reached agreement with Kalmar, part of Cargotec, to supply four heavy electric forklift trucks, two electric reachstackers and three heavy terminal tractors for the carrier’s U.S. logistics network. The order, which also includes the Kalmar Insight fleet performance management ... [+]

Brownsville Port Taps Dietrich as Interim Director

Entering 2024, the Port of Brownsville has named William Dietrich as interim port director, succeeding Eduardo A. Campirano, former port director and CEO. The Brownsville Navigation District Board of Commissioners began a national search for a new port director and CEO in August, and named Dietrich ... [+]

Swire Projects Launches Transpacific Service

Swire Projects, the projects and heavy-lift shipping arm of Swire Shipping, has launched a dedicated semi-liner service between East Asia and the West Coast of North America. The service, which previously operated on an ad hoc basis, will improve connectivity and support growing demand for breakbulk ... [+]

Intermarine Boosts Heavy-Lift Fleet

Intermarine, the multipurpose carrier for the Americas and collaborator with the heavy-lift Jumbo-SAL-Alliance, said Jan. 10 that it will expand its fleet with four heavy-lift vessels. Intermarine has secured four vessels on long-term charter, sailing under the names Industrial Fraternity (F360), Industrial Skipper (F500), Industrial Swift ... [+]

CMA CGM Updates Rates for Europe-Med to U.S.

CMA CGM said it will implement its Rate Restoration Initiative 2 (RRI02) for cargo from North Europe and Mediterranean ports of load to U.S. East, Gulf and West coasts ports of discharge and all inland destinations, effective Jan. 21. Unless otherwise specified, the RRI02 will apply ... [+]

Maersk splits Panama Canal service

Maersk is switching from vessels to a land bridge to avoid the Panama Canal on its OC1 service between Oceania and the Americas. This is due to the water situation, which has forced the Panama Canal Authority to reduce the number and weight of vessels ... [+]

First AAL Super B takes to the water

The first of AAL Shipping’s next generation 32,000 deadweight Super B-Class ships, the AAL Limassol, was floated out from dry dock in late December. She is due to go for sea trial in April 2024 before her delivery to AAL in May. [+]

Port Receives $283 Million for ‘America’s Green Gateway’

The Port of Long Beach will receive $283 million from the federal government to assist in building "America's Green Gateway," a rail project which will enable one of the nation's busiest seaports to move more cargo by trains, speeding deliveries across the entire national supply ... [+]

Jonathan Daniels Named to Head Maryland Port Administration

Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld has announced Jonathan Daniels as the new executive director of the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Maryland Port Administration. Mr. Daniels comes to Maryland after serving as chief executive officer and director at Port Everglades in Broward County, Fla., and ... [+]

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