Global container terminal operators are changing gear – and strategies – as the nature of their market environment changes markedly due to slowing growth, bigger ships and larger liner alliances. Drewry’s latest Global Container Terminal…
South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) reported its strongest August container volumes on record. SCPA handled 180,153 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in August, a year-over-year increase of 5.6 percent. Previously, SCPA’s strongest August on record was 170…
American-owned NVOCC Troy Container Line announced a new direct import service which provides accelerated transits between Hamburg and Chicago. Building upon its foundation in the U.S. Midwest marketplace, this new service gives customers a fast…
A contractor was feared drowned after falling into the Port of Texas City, Texas, when scaffolding supporting him collapsed at the Marathon Petroleum Corp Galveston Bay refinery dock, a Texas City official said. 'Divers are en route to do a body recovery…
Russia plans to fully halt exports of oil products from other than Russian ports on the Baltic Sea by 2018, the head of oil pipeline monopoly Nikolai Tokarev told President Vladimir Putin on Monday. Russia will increase the shipments via its own ports instead…
Plans to develop South Carolina’s second inland port in Dillon were announced by the South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) in a move that aims to support growth of intermodal container volumes and expand access to markets in neighboring states and throughout the Northeast and Midwest…
The Georgia Ports Authority has named Ed McCarthy as its new chief operating officer (COO), effective September 6. At GPA, McCarthy will be responsible for sustaining the profitable growth and development of GPA's operations, while maintaining world-class operating standards…
Descartes Systems Group announced that ChannelPorts, one of the UK’s neutral customs clearance agent, has improved the speed and visibility of its customs declarations processing using Descartes e-Customs and Descartes Pentant solutions.“Speed…
APL has been named the ‘Best Green Shipping Line’ by HAROPA, the French port of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris on 7 September 2016. For the second year in a row, HAROPA is recognising APL’s exemplary environmental performance in reducing air emissions…
Cavotec has recently built what is believed to be one of the world’s largest mono-spiral motorized cable reels. With a drum diameter of 9.2m, and weighing in at 10,000kg, it is the largest drum manufactured by Cavotec to date. The unit has…
Import cargo volume at the US’ major retail container ports should be at near-peak levels this month even as retailers work to cope with the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates…
Port of Long Beach CEO Jon Slangerup announced his resignation, effective October 28, 2016. Slangerup will step down as head of the nation’s second largest port to take a position as Chairman and CEO of an aviation technology company effective October 31…
GAC UK and Forth Logistics Marine Services (FLMS) have formed a partnership to provide mooring and related terminal services around the UK.Formed on the back of a long term contract in the River Forth with an oil major to be announced later in the year…
ZPMC North America has supplied the first new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes ever purchased by Port Tampa Bay, the second delivery to be commissioned by ZPMC’s dedicated North American service group. ZPMC Crane Services, the U.S. service subsidiary of leading heavy industries brand ZPMC…
Grain trading company Medsofts plans to re-export a shipment of 31,000 tonnes of Russian wheat it has been unable to unload in Egypt since July because of confusion about checks for the ergot fungus, a company official said on Thursday. The…