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The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) resumed limited cargo and vessel operations on Thursday, just four days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana. Container operations resumed today at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal, just nine days after Ida made landfall. The first two ships worked at the container terminal were the MSC… Read More
The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has awarded a $4 million contract to HDR Engineering Inc. as part of the multiyear due diligence and permitting process for the new Louisiana International Terminal container facility. As part of HDR’s three-year program management and control services contract with Port NOLA, the company will provide: terminal operation… Read More
Major ports around the U.S. are struggling with queues of anchored ships and yards of containers piled as high as local fire departments will allow. Now some of the smaller, regional trade gateways are relishing the opportunity to expand amid all that congestion. Take the Port of Boston, where the cranes of the Conley Terminal… Read More
If you’re on the mid-Bay this week, you can’t miss it. The 800-foot-long Zhen Hua 24 is anchored in the Annapolis anchorage for the Port of Baltimore, and it’s carrying four gigantic ship-to-shore cranes. The Neo-Panamax cranes are destined for the port’s Seagirt Marine Terminal, where they will help expand operations at the port to… Read More
Container xChange, world’s leading neutral online platform for container logistics, has published data on inbound and outbound containers at the US West Coast ports – ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as demand surges and retailers pile up stock ahead of the holiday season. “Our CAx (container availability index) data reveals 60% increase in the inbound… Read More
Leaders of some of the busiest U.S. ports expect congestion snarling maritime gateways to continue deep into next year, the Wall Street Journal (paywall) reports. Ports are already swamped by record numbers of containers reaching U.S. shores during this year’s peak shipping season, and the number of vessels waiting for berth space at Southern California’s… Read More
Deputy U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Graves joined Northwest Seaport Alliance officials and other trade stakeholders at a recent roundtable in Seattle to discuss transportation infrastructure funding, lowering tariffs, agriculture exports and job creation in Washington state. “The Department of Commerce’s mission is to spur and empower entrepreneurs to create good-paying jobs,” Graves said during the… Read More
A long-sought revitalization of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility in Ketchikan is officially underway. The project aims to give the NOAA ship Fairweather a permanent home. Local, state and federal officials plunged gold-painted shovels into two long, narrow wooden boxes filled with dirt Tuesday morning. The ceremonial groundbreaking marks the beginning of work… Read More
New London — The Connecticut Port Authority has failed to meet an Aug. 31 deadline to obtain a federal permit for work on the $235.5 million State Pier construction project but appears confident its offshore wind partners will not decide to pull funding. The Aug. 31 deadline is contained in an amendment added earlier this year… Read More
The Port of Tillamook Bay Board of Commissioners welcomed two new faces this summer, including one commissioner who has served on the board before. Bill Baertlein and Kevin Stoecker started their four-year terms on July 1. The men replace Chris Sween and Jim Young. “I want to thank Chris and Jim for their service. Chris… Read More
The Port of Corpus Christi Authority and the Texas General Land Office have signed a Memorandum of Understanding stating their intention to co-develop a carbon dioxide storage solution in the Texas Coastal Bend area in support of national decarbonization targets. The solution would involve infrastructure to transport and permanently store CO2 captured by various industrial… Read More
With record volumes of goods reaching the U.S., port executives expect a crush of container imports beyond the holidays Leaders of some of the busiest U.S. ports expect congestion snarling maritime gateways to continue deep into next year, as the crush of goods from manufacturers and retailers looking to replenish depleted inventories pushes past shipping’s… Read More
Sub lead: See Lead Americas Story Today for Exclusive DredgeWire photo BALTIMORE — The Maryland Transportation Authority will temporarily hold traffic in both directions on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge (US 50/301) and Francis Scott Key Bridge (I-695) on Thursday, Sept. 9, during passage of marine vessels carrying four large cranes. Traffic holds will be used… Read More
Port Fourchon is close to the offshore oil platforms in the US Gulf, but it is also at the southern edge of Louisiana where the land is fading away. Port Fourchon became momentarily famous when it was reported that it was the landing spot for one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit Louisiana…. Read More
DredgeWire sailed by these four new cranes on Sunday, moored temporarily near Annapolis MD on the Zhen Hua 24 heavy lift ship which sailed straight from Shanghai China to the Chesapeake Bay, with a small delay from Hurricane Ida. The cranes will serve neo post Panamax vessels at the Seagirt terminal. Quite a sight. For more… Read More