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An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board found that severe, unexpected winds caused the boxship CMA CGM Bianca to break away from a pier at the Port of New Orleans in August of last year, causing significant damages to equipment at the Napoleon Avenue container terminal. The total damage was estimated at $15 million for the shoreside… Read More
Several south Louisiana ports have partnered to request federal assistance as a result of the impact of Hurricane Ida on their infrastructure, waterways and communities. The ports of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Fourchon, Morgan City, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, South Louisiana and Terrebonne jointly submitted a request to President Joe Biden on Sept. 7, intending to… Read More
The Port of Portland’s long-idled container terminal is starting to see new signs of a comeback, five years after it lost its last container service. Portland’s port is located on the Columbia River, about 100 river miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. It maintains a busy ro/ro terminal and it is an important hub for bulk grain… Read More
Ports are backlogged. Record numbers of ocean liners are waiting offshore for berths to unload their cargo. Shipping containers are nowhere to be found. Captains are rerouting their ships to avoid ports shut down by coronavirus outbreaks. And for many of the world’s largest shipping lines, profits have never been higher. The pandemic has been… Read More
The August meeting of the Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Commission was one for the books. Commissioners heard that four dredges would be working in area waters at the same time, from Berwick Bay to the sea buoy. Monday’s September meeting had some twists and turns, many but not all courtesy of Hurricane Ida…. Read More
Leaders representing businesses at Port Tampa Bay have expressed their support for a new study that will look into deepening Tampa Harbor. Port Tampa Bay and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will embark on a three-year-long study into possible improvements, just over two years after the deepening of the Big Bend Channel. Any projects… Read More
(Sept 11): The number of container ships waiting to enter the largest U.S. gateway for transpacific trade swelled to another pandemic record and the average wait jumped to more than eight days, adding delays and costs during peak season for companies to rebuild inventories. Fifty-five vessels were anchored or idling further offshore waiting to offload… Read More
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is leading a group of Senators in calling on Congressional leadership to provide at least $2.5 billion in funding to address port congestion through the Maritime Administration’s (MARAD) Port Infrastructure Development Program in the upcoming Build Back Better bill. This funding… Read More
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