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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
The Guyana Shore Base is seeking Inter-American Development Bank financing to expand its Houston facility to potentially provide support for up to five floating production storage and offloading units, among other upgrades. ExxonMobil has said that its planned scale of operations is too large for GYSBI to solely meet its needs and in March of… Read More
June in-bound container activity eases from May, 33.7% ahead of June last year WASHINGTON – Imports at the nation’s largest retail container ports should hit yet another record in August as consumer demand continues to stretch supply chains and retailers shift from the back-to-school season to the peak shipping season for winter holiday merchandise, according… Read More
South Carolina Ports had a strong start to fiscal year 2022 with its highest July on record for containers moving through the Port of Charleston. SC Ports handled a record-setting 244,821 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in July at Wando Welch Terminal, North Charleston Terminal and Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal. This is up 38% from a… Read More
You’ve heard of Miami Vice, but how about a Miami slice…of the city’s port debt. On Tuesday, Miami-Dade County announced the sale of $1.4… You’ve heard of Miami Vice, but how about a Miami slice…of the city’s port debt. On Tuesday, Miami-Dade County announced the sale of $1.4 billion in bonds backed by revenue from… Read More
Delmas Whittaker will take on a new leadership role as head of Marine Maintenance at the Port of Seattle. Whittaker has served as the Maritime Division’s senior manager of fishing and commercial vessels at Fishermen’s Terminal for three years and has worked for the port for 13. In that role, he has advised the NF… Read More
The demand for imported goods coming to the U.S. is still outpacing supply. Everything from cars to clothing and everyday items ordered online during lockdown come from abroad in metal shipping containers. The containment measures during the pandemic impacted the global shipping supply chain, and now there aren’t enough containers to go around. Shippers had… Read More
Corpus Christi, TX, USA – The Port of Corpus Christi is expressing its full support for an amendment by the U.S. Senate to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package that expands congressional designation of Interstate 14 on a corridor across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The I-14 corridor would connect strategic military installations across those five… Read More