During the November Commission meeting, Board members unanimously selected Tom Weinberg to serve as Chairman of the Canaveral Port Authority after newly elected Micah Loyd and Bob Harvey formally were sworn in to begin their terms. Elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014…
Global container shipping company CMA CGM and Algerian national shipping company CNAN NORD Spa have signed a cooperation agreement on November 8 to develop shipping transportation in Algeria. The agreement focuses on three strategic axes…
Seafarers’ charity Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) is providing support for a group of seafarers who have been stranded on board their ship since September 20, in Baltimore harbor. According to media reports the ship’s owner is behind on payments…
Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch reported to the GPA board Monday fiscal year to date growth of 4 percent for loaded container traffic, moving 1.01 million twenty-foot equivalent container units, an increase of 40,545 TEUs compared to the same period in 2015…
The Little Rock Port Authority completed the acquisition of an additional 157 acres to be used for economic development. The purchase was made possible by the City of Little Rock through its 2012 3/8-Cent Capital Improvement Sales Tax, which…
Quay No.1 at Russian Baltic port of Primorsk will be out of work for maintenance for around a year after accident last week, Russian pipeline operator Transneft said on Monday. Transneft said in a statement last week that the quay No.1 had…
ZIM has announced the restructuring and upgrading of its services in the East Mediterranean. Starting November 28, the new structure will commence with the following strings: Turkey Greece Express (TGX) with 2x1600 TEU vessels…
International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) says the misreading of tariffs in shipping documentation is a common cause of costly claims.ITIC cites the case of a South American port agent asked by the owners of a vessel to provide a…
WWL recently became the first RoRo shipping company to transport heavy breakbulk cargo weighing more than 92 tonnes from Japan to the United States.Until recently, Japanese ports only allowed a maximum cargo weight of 92 tonnes including roll trailer…
The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA)— the recognized and coordinated voice of seaports in the Americas—today sent a multi-faceted document to President-Elect Donald Trump’s transition team. The paper outlines opportunities to…
Nearly 500 people descended upon the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis Nov. 16-17 during the 14th annual Indiana Logistics Summit to hear over 20 speakers discuss global logistics issues and their impacts on the regional economy. 'Global…
On Friday 11th November, the Adur and Worthing Business Awards took place, to celebrate business excellence within the local area and to give local businesses the chance to nominate fellow colleagues and other businesses for numerous categories of awards…
Aggressively deploying zero and near-zero emission trucks and cargo-handling equipment and expanding programs that reduce ship emissions are among the core strategies the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are proposing for the next version of San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP)…
The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) today sent a multifaceted document to President-Elect Donald Trump’s transition team. The paper outlines opportunities to, in the words of the president-elect’s campaign, “Make America Great Again…
NYK subsidiary NYK Ports, together with Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III (MIP III), has invested in Maher Terminals, which operates a terminal in the U.S. port of New York and New Jersey. On November 16, 2016, NYK Ports acquired a 20 percent share of Maher…
