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Canaveral Port Authority: $108.5M Contracts Awarded for New Cruise Terminal

Jan 08, 2019

At a special meeting on Tuesday, the Canaveral Port Authority Board of Commissioners unanimously approved awarding Merritt Island-based Ivey’s Construction Inc. a $78.98 million contract for the Port’s Cruise Terminal 3 project and a $29.53 million contract for the adjacent 1…

Gulftainer Names Fred Castonguay New Group CEO

Jan 07, 2019

UAE-based privately-owned port operator Gulftainer has appointed Fred Castonguay its new group chief operating officer to strengthen its growing ports and logistics portfolio globally.Castonguay previously served as the vice president of Operations…

Huntington Ingalls Appoints Joseph E. Tofalo as VP

Jan 07, 2019

America’s largest military shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that Vice Adm. Joseph E. Tofalo has been named corporate vice president of program integration and assessment.The U.S. Navy, Ret. will report directly to Mitchell B…

South Carolina Ports Authority Marks 6.4% Container Volume Growth

Jan 07, 2019

The South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA), which operates the Port of Charleston and other facilities, today reported 6.4 percent year-over-year container volume growth, with a record 2.3 million twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) handled in 2018…

ONE Thailand Crosses One Mln TEUS of Container Shipments

Jan 07, 2019

Ocean Network Express (ONE) Thailand achieved a remarkable milestone by attaining 1 million TEUs, merely 9 months into the business.From January to December in 2017, the export & import laden containers volume in Thailand was 8 Million TEUs…

MatchBack Systems, Trinium Technologies Partner

Jan 07, 2019

MatchBack Systems, Inc., a leading software as a service (SaaS) solution to plan, optimize and automate street-turns, and Trinium Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise software to the intermodal trucking and container drayage industries…

GTMaritime Appoints McNally

Jan 07, 2019

Maritime software specialist GTMaritime has appointed maritime satellite veteran Mike McNally as Sales and Marketing Director, as it sets about expanding into new territories.McNally has more than 25 years’ experience working in the industry…

Austalia, Iran Sign Shipbuilding Pact

Jan 06, 2019

The Australian government decided to increase cooperation with Tehran in marine industries and shipbuilding irrespective of the US sanctions, reports Mehr News Agency, quoting the deputy head of Iran's Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO)…

NYK Group Aims to Stay Ahead 2022 with Digitalization and Green

Jan 04, 2019

NYK president Tadaaki Naito in his New Year’s speech required the employees to execute the medium-term management plan “Staying Ahead 2022 with Digitalization and Green” announced in March of last year.He chartered out  the three basic strategies in the medium-term management plan…

Cook Inlet Tug & Barge Announces Interim Manager

Jan 04, 2019

Project Manager to Temporarily Lead Alaska Operations.  Cook Inlet Tug & Barge (CITB), an independently managed subsidiary of Foss Maritime Company, announced that Foss project manager Amber Thomas has been selected as interim Business Operations Manager for Anchorage…

Turkey Ban Hits Wellard's Ship Charter

Jan 03, 2019

Australia's largest live animal exporter, Wellard, is closely watching reports that Turkey has halted imports of live cattle.Turkey last week unexpectedly revealed that it has halted imports of live feeder cattle from all countries.Wellard informed…

Kalmar to Automatize Melbourne VICT Terminal

Jan 03, 2019

The provider of cargo handling solutions and services to ports, terminals, Kalmar has signed a maintenance and support agreement with International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) covering the automated container handling solution operating…

Newcastle Bulk Terminal Reaches Key Milestone

Jan 03, 2019

Australia’s new east coast supply chain alternative Port of Newcastle has marked an important milestone in the development of the Newcastle Bulk Terminal.A press release from the company said that the dismantling of the old ship unloaders is now complete…

ONE Sets Productivity Record at PSA Terminal

Jan 03, 2019

Ocean Network Express (ONE) and PSA Singapore (PSA) jointly celebrated the highest productivity record of ONE’s containership – “NYK SWAN”, at the PSA Singapore’s Pasir Panjang Terminal.The Singapore-based shipping company said in a press release that over 6…

cargo-partner Making Big Steps in Slovenia

Jan 03, 2019

With the construction of the new iLogistics Center in Ljubljana quickly progressing, a further growth spurt is on the horizon for the rapidly expanding transport and info-logistics provider in Europe.The construction of cargo-partner’s iLogistics Center in Ljubljana…

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