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SEATTLE, WA – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg visited Terminal 5 at the Port of Seattle to see how the Port is cutting maritime emissions, and electrifying and decarbonizing operations to tackle climate change, and increase economic competitiveness. Sen. Cantwell secured an additional $2.5 billion in funding to… Read More
The Port of Houston Authority has signed a project partnership agreement (PPA) with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to widen and deepen the Houston Ship Channel. The PPA commits Port Houston to the responsibilities of the project, details the terms of the expansion and permits the start of dredging of the federal waterway. Known… Read More
“The pressures on global supply chains have not eased, and we do not expect them to any time soon,” said Bob Biesterfeld, the CEO of C.H. Robinson, one of the world’s largest logistics firms. The partial closure of the world’s third busiest container port is disrupting other ports in China, stretching supply chains that were… Read More
Container ships are stacking up again off Southern California’s jammed ports, as a flood of imports and logjams in domestic logistics networks hit operations at the biggest U.S. gateway for seaborne trade. Thirty-seven container ships were anchored off the adjacent ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in recent days, according to the Marine Exchange… Read More
Proposed in 2007 | More than $4.5 billion estimated cost Dates for construction and completion remain in flux. Fifteen hundred acres on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, just a few miles downstream from the Port of Savannah, is the targeted site for this massive terminal project. As proposed, it could handle some… Read More
The Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) recorded strong container and vehicle volumes during the first three quarters of Fiscal Year 2021. During this time, JAXPORT moved more than one million containers, a 15 percent increase over the same period last year. JAXPORT’s fiscal year runs Oct. 1 – Sept. 30. Nearly 492,000 vehicles have moved through… Read More
PORT HOUSTON PROJECT 11 MILESTONE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT SIGNED BILLION DOLLAR INFRASTRUCTURE WIDENING PROJECT TERMS Presentation and Media Availability WHAT: Port Houston presents Partnership Agreement to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) officially committing as the non-federal sponsor to terms* of channel infrastructure widening project of the Houston Ship Channel. WHEN: Thursday, August 19 at 10:00… Read More
The Port of Virginia had its best July on record, with the Norfolk-headquartered complex handling more than 293,000 twenty-foot equivalent units, a nearly 33% increase year-over-year. July’s volume was also the second-highest for 2021. The highest occurred in May, when the port handled 315,000 TEUs. The port has been handling more than 282,000 TEUs per… Read More
Barges returned this month to dormant mooring cells along the Ohio River in Weirton, W.Va., reports the Frontier Group of Companies, which purchased the former Arcelor-Mittal USA property in 2016. For the first time in over 20 years, barges began transporting sand, gravel, and steel products and a large array of other materials to and… Read More
Port could become the nation’s premier carbon capture hub The Port of Corpus Christi and Howard Energy Partners are teaming to convert a natural gas refinery along the Gulf of Mexico into a carbon-neutral hydrogen production facility. The port and Howard Energy recently announced a memorandum of understanding under which Howard said it will capture… Read More
A first-of-its-kind crowdsourced data program is supporting port and dredging decisions on the Lower Mississippi A non-profit research institute in Louisiana is applying modern technology to the age-old problem of pilotage on the shifting waterways of the Lower Mississippi River. Ever since the steamboat era, navigators and port operators on the Mississippi have had to… Read More
Ports America Chesapeake and the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA) have secured a new MSC Indian Subcontinent and Mediterranean service for Baltimore. The Indus 2 service will include an eight-ship string of 8,5000 teu container capacity vessels that will travel to the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore and seven other… Read More
The Connecticut Port Authority on Monday received a long-awaited state permit that authorizes major work at State Pier in New London. The permit authorizes a partial demolition of an existing pier, dredging, construction of bulkheads and the use of dredged material to fill in more than 7 acres between two existing piers. The permit, dated… Read More
The Government of Canada is investing more than C$33m in a conveyor system at the Saguenay Port in Quebec. The system will be used to move materials back and forth between the industrial port zone and ships docked at the Grande-Anse Marine Terminal. The funding, provided through Canada’s National Trade Corridors Fund, is intended to… Read More
The Port of Corpus Christi and San Antonio pipeline operator Howard Energy Partners on Thursday said they have agreed to convert Howard’s Javelina refinery into the region’s first carbon-neutral, blue hydrogen production facility. Blue hydrogen, seen by some as a clean fuel source to help reduce global warming, is produced using methane, a byproduct of… Read More