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HENRICO, VA. — Amazon plans to build a new robotics fulfillment center on 119 acres in Henrico, about 11 miles from Richmond. The Seattle-based company expects to create 1,000 new jobs at the facility, which is set to open in 2022. The multi-story, 650,000-square-foot property will be situated next to Richmond Raceway. In 2006, Amazon… Read More
The volume of freight handled in the port of Rotterdam in the first quarter of this year totalled 115.8 million tonnes. This constitutes a 3.0% increase over the same period last year. As such, the port of Rotterdam has set a new step in its recovery from the decrease in throughput in 2020 as a… Read More
A 760-foot vehicle carrier ran aground early Tuesday morning near the Cape Charles Anchorage in the Chesapeake Bay, as the vessel headed south from Baltimore, destined for Savannah, Ga. U.S. Coast Guard Sector Virginia reports the vessel Tirranna ran aground around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, but has since been refloated. A Coast Guard boat crew from… Read More
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — SpaceX is in a deal to use a marine terminal in the Port of Long Beach for West Coast rocket recovery operations. The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a new sublease agreement with Elon Musk’s space launch company on Monday. SpaceX will take over a wharf that was… Read More
By Jerry Hendrix, The Wall Street Journal April 22, 2021 A portion of President Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan would fund roads, bridges and railways, but one essential piece of infrastructure is overlooked entirely: the U.S. shipbuilding base. For years there has been a bipartisan consensus that the U.S. Navy should grow to 355… Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC, Houston, Texas, was awarded a $53,910,509 firm-fixed-price contract to deepen and widen Mobile Harbor. Bids were solicited via the internet with five received. Work will be performed in Irvington, Alabama, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 18, 2022. Fiscal 2020 civil construction funds; and fiscal 2021 civil… Read More
Despite the unprecedented global challenges of COVID-19, the leading ports on Canada’s West Coast are still enjoying robust trade with Asia. Vancouver and Prince Rupert even broke cargo records in 2020, with container trends continuing to show strength in 2021. And the Port of Nanaimo, in partnership with DP World, is expanding a major regional,… Read More
On both coasts, the nation’s ports continued their record pace for container volumes in March as goods keep coming into the U.S., nearly 14 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, creating warehouse space shortages and kinks in the supply chain. Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest, moved 957,599 20-foot-equivalent units in March, a 113% increase… Read More
We invite you to join us for a Special Event! Port Houston’s partners play key roles in our success and on Thursday, April 29 we will be Navigating the Future giving you insights on where we are and where we are going. This is a one-time, free virtual event that you will not want to… Read More
Despite the unprecedented global challenges of COVID-19, the leading ports on Canada’s West Coast are still enjoying robust trade with Asia. Vancouver and Prince Rupert even broke cargo records in 2020, with container trends continuing to show strength in 2021. And the Port of Nanaimo, in partnership with DP World, is expanding a major regional,… Read More
Los Angeles port officials see progress in reducing their bottleneck of cargo ships. Sail north to Oakland, though, and the line is even longer and there’s talk of the congestion lasting through the summer. As of Friday, 25 container carriers were waiting to enter the Port of Oakland at anchor in San Francisco Bay and… Read More
The Port of Savannah handled an all-time record of nearly 500,000 twenty-foot equivalent container units in March, an increase of more than 48%, or 162,275 TEUs, compared to the same month in 2020. “Every new container that moves through the Port of Savannah means new jobs for Georgia,” said Gov. Brian Kemp. “The port and… Read More
After a few years of battling sticky mud, high water, hurricanes and sandy shoals, smooth sailing appears to be ahead for the Morgan City Harbor & Terminal District Commission.On Monday, the commission took a step toward buying the land needed to more than double the river frontage of its dock if a state grant comes… Read More
Plans to build the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering port on the Gulf Coast are inching forward by awarding a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract fo Developer Pilot LNG LLC said last week it had chosen partner Wison Offshore & Marine to carry out the FEED work. Wison also is taking a minority… Read More
Talks about the Port of Virginia deepening and widening its shipping channels to make room for larger cargo vessels have spanned several years. It was welcome news, then, when dredges hit the Chesapeake Bay in December 2019 to start digging, the first step in a project that aims to make Hampton Roads’ port the deepest… Read More