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Sunday, September 19, 2021

China's Coal imports from Australia Plummet 98.6%, but India, S. Korea fill the Gaps

In the first seven months of the year Chinese coal imports from Australia have totalled just 780,000 tons as Chinese restrictions on Australian coal have started to hurt, according to Oceanbolt. This represents a 98.6% drop compared with 56.8…

Latest Interviews

Jennifer Carpenter

AWO President & CEO

AWO president & CEO Jennifer Carpenter weighs in on the unprecedented challenges encountered over the past year and addresses top priorities along the uncertain path ahead.

Sam Ruda

Director, Port of NY/NJ

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Tracy Zea

President & CEO, Waterways Council Inc.

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Maritime Logistics News

Port Logistics

Mississippi River Temporarily Shut for Dredging Work

The Mississippi River, the second longest U.S. waterway, was temporarily shut to vessel traffic on Tuesday from mile 0 to mile 2 due to dredging operations, the New Orleans Board of Trade (NOBOT) said.The closure, expected to be lifted on Tuesday afternoon, it scheduled to be repeated on Sunday to finish the removal of dredging pipeline.

Cruise

No Change on Sailing Plans after New COVID-19 Cases, Cruise Lines Say

Royal Caribbean Group and Carnival Corp will push ahead with a return to cruises this summer despite two guests onboard Royal Caribbean’s Celebrity Millennium ship testing positive for COVID-19.A year after several cruise ships were host to major coronavirus outbreaks and with large numbers of Americans now vaccinated…

Intermodal

Shipping Hurdles Pare Brazilian Coffee Exports

Exports of green coffee from Brazil, the world's largest producer, fell 27% in August from a year earlier to 2.33 million bags as difficulties to find containers and space at vessels increased in the last weeks, industry group Cecafe said on Monday.Cecafe said in a monthly report that around 3.5 million bags of coffee could not be shipped in time t

Company News

ABPmer appointed Designated Person for Belfast Harbour Commissioners

Belfast Harbor Commissioners (BHC) has appointed ABPmer as its Designated Person under the requirements of the Department for Transport’s Port Marine Safety Code (PMSC).Belfast Harbor is a Trust Port and Northern Ireland's principal maritime gateway, handling around 24 million tonnes of goods each year.

Contracts

2021: The Year of the Containership

What’s not to like about 2021 for container shipping? Freight rates are record high, record amounts of cargo are shipped across the Pacific Ocean, as well as globally, and the previous yearly record for new container ship orders has just been broken (measured in capacity) in less…