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Port Saint John in New Brunswick, Canada, is underway with planning and implementing major initiatives to help improve port operations. With a new CEO at the helm, we delve into what the port has in store in the coming years. PTI recently sat down with newly appointed President and CEO of Port Saint John, Craig… Read More
Seeks partner to develop rare bare-ground lakefront site, perhaps for recreational or entertainment uses. The City of Milwaukee is seeking a partner to develop a five-acre parcel that sticks out in Lake Michigan. But don’t expect to see a new tower or other residential development. The parcel is on filled lakebed and any future use… Read More
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Ports in California have been making headlines for their delays and supply chain backups. But the Port of Virginia has been running smoothly. Virginia Port Authority CEO Stephen Edwards said this week that its terminals are doing better in part because they have fundamentally different operating structures. That’s according to The… Read More
Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has temporarily replaced the Port of Savanah with the Port of Charleston on its East Mediterranean – America Service (EMA). The service will begin calling at the North Charleston Terminal in the Port of Charleston for a period of six weeks from 14 January 2022. The move comes in a… Read More
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Capital Development Partners, a Savannah, Ga.-based industrial real estate and infrastructure development firm, has purchased 135 acres in North Charleston near the Port of Charleston’s newly opened Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal. The sales price for the land was $65 million. The Savannah, Ga.-based firm plans to develop Shipyard Creek Logistics Center,… Read More
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said a new project that broke ground in Baltimore on Monday will be “an absolute game-changer” for the entire region. Hogan joined officials at the mouth of the 126-year-old Howard Street tunnel in Baltimore to break ground on a $466 million project that will allow trains to double-stack containers heading to… Read More
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