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The union representing container truckers at two carriers serving the Port of Vancouver issued a 72-hour strike notice on Monday, setting the stage for yet another major disruption at Canada’s largest maritime trading facility beginning Friday. Unifor issued the notice after talks with Aheer Transportation failed to yield a new agreement. Talks with Prudential Transportation… Read More
The CEO of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, who has spent the year trying to keep goods moving amid unprecedented supply-chain snarls and a catastrophic flood, called on the business community to recognize the urgency to reverse climate change and invest in infrastructure to reduce the risk of future trade bottlenecks. Robin Silvester delivered his… Read More
Walsh’s visit Tuesday followed a report from the ports Monday of progress reducing the number of containers lingering at the terminals. LOS ANGELES — Amid supply chain disruptions at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh visited the port complex Tuesday to discuss the Biden administration’s efforts to… Read More
A DredgeWire Exclusive by Peter Bowe, Publisher Recently Port Houston Commission’s Chairman Ric Campo gave a major address about the Port in Houston to a group of 50 CEOs attending the annual board meeting of the Chief Executives Organization, an international organization with over 1700 members affiliated with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO.) Campo was the… Read More
1 big thing: Tracking the pandemic’s unequal impact Data: Morning Consult/Axios; Chart: Will Chase/Axios The pandemic was bound to hit the most economically vulnerable among us the hardest. New polling data from Morning Consult, out this morning, shows the degree to which those difficulties were more concentrated among people of color, Axios’ Kate Marino writes…. Read More
Project Will Significantly Grow Business at the Port, Generate Nearly 14,000 Jobs, Improve East Coast Freight Rail Transportation ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today led public and private sector leaders in breaking ground on the $466 million Howard Street Tunnel expansion project, which will reconstruct the 126-year-old freight rail tunnel to accommodate double-stacked container trains to… Read More
Federal Marine Terminals (FMT), a subsidiary of Canada’s Fednav Limited, recently announced a new river terminal on at Port Itawamba in Fulton, Miss. The operating agreement was signed back in March. The port, located on the Tennessee-Tombigbee River at Mile 390, has state-of-the-art facility, which include two 30-ton hooks, a barge slip for multiple barges,… Read More
POLA reported that it handled 902,644 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), an 8% decrease compared to October 2020, which represents the highest-volume October volume tally in POLA history. The Port of Long Beach reported that total October volume—at 789,716 TEU—were down 2.1% compared to October 2020, its strongest October tally on record, while posting its second-busiest… Read More
The Port of Hueneme and Naval Base Ventura County have entered into an agreement aimed at relieving congestion at Los Angeles County ports in time for holiday shopping. Under the joint-use agreement, the port has access to Wharf 3 within the naval base, along with two buildings and about 31 acres of land within and outside… Read More
Capital improvements, customer service, and sustainability to provide economic benefits — improving quality of life for the region The Port of Seattle Commission passed its 2022 Budget and 2022-2026 Capital Improvement Plan today, with an emphasis on delivering an equitable recovery by safely operating our airport and maritime gateways, advancing capital improvement projects, and continuing… Read More
HOUSTON, Nov. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation(NASDAQ: GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States announced today the signing of a $92.5 million dredging contract for the Houston Ship Channel Widening and Improvement Project 11. This is the first phase of the extensive, multi-phase Houston Ship Channel billion-dollar… Read More
A graceful wind turbine spins above the Port of Milwaukee, as ships glide in and out carrying grain, cement and other commodities from around the Great Lakes region and halfway across the world. It is the only wind turbine powering a port in the U.S., and a symbol of the way ports are aiming to… Read More
The agreement is the outcome of a six-month terminal review process between both parties and sets stage for new deepwater port and supply chain network. Charlotte, North Carolina USA and Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana USA – Plaquemines Port, Harbor and Terminal District (PPHTD) and APM Terminals have announced a Letter of Intent whereby APM Terminals will… Read More
Kristen Fidler and Kristen Keene of the Maryland Port Administration gave this presentation at the inaugural BlueTechMaryland conference held in Baltimore. BlueTechMaryland is a partnership with a goal to make Maryland one of the top three BlueTech innovation clusters in the world. BlueTechMaryland is a partnership with a goal to make Maryland one of the… Read More
Bill Doyle, executive director of the Maryland Port Administration, talks about President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.