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Ports of Indiana has hired Kristin Brier in the newly created role of Vice President of Integrated Planning & Sustainable Development. Brier most recently served as Multimodal Director at the Indiana Department of Transportation and has worked at INDOT and Indiana Department of Environmental Management for more than 20 years in roles involving freight, multimodal… Read More
The Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) Board of Directors has unanimously approved a long term, 30-year agreement with US marine terminal and logistics company, Enstructure, for the lease and development of a 79-acre waterfront property at JAXPORT’s Talleyrand Marine Terminal. Enstructure is the parent company of Jacksonville-based Seaonus Stevedoring, a current JAXPORT tenant operating 35 acres… Read More
The recent decline in volumes on the US Gulf and east coasts and in northern Canada has not derailed port expansion plans. Designs for new container terminals on the lower Mississippi have taken steps forward, while the port of Prince Rupert is working on an export transfer facility as it awaits the outcome of a… Read More
It is an extraordinary detour: Hundreds of ships are avoiding the Suez Canal and sailing an extra 4,000 miles around Africa, burning fuel, inflating costs and adding 10 days of travel or more in each direction. They are avoiding one of the world’s most important shipping routes, the Red Sea, where for months the Iranian-backed… Read More
Disruptions to shipping from the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea already are more damaging to the supply chain than the early COVID-19 pandemic, maritime advisory firm Sea-Intelligence said this week in an analysis of vessel delays. Supply chain data known in the industry as “vessel capacity” shows the second largest drop in recent years,… Read More
South Carolina Ports (SC Ports) has reported that Inland Ports Greer and Dillon handled a record amount of containers in 2023. Inland Port Greer reportedly transported 175,873 containers onto and off trains in the Upstate last year, a 26 per cent increase over the previous year. Inland Port Dillon transported 43,266 containers onto and off… Read More
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority will hold its first Regular Commission Monthly Meeting of the year on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, beginning at 9:15 a.m. A quorum of the Port Commission, along with executive leadership, will be present in the boardroom of the Port Houston Executive Office Building, located at 111 East… Read More
The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) Board of Commissioners (The Board) has passed two resolutions to expedite the St. Bernard Transportation Corridor. According to Port NOLA, this is a route for St. Bernard Parish that will connect the new $1.8 billion Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) to the interstate system, providing a road that St. Bernard Parish… Read More
Port of Corpus Christi customers set a new high mark in annual tonnage during 2023, moving more than 200 million tons of goods through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel for the first time in its history. The 203 million tons moved in 2023 was an 8.1 percent increase from the prior year. The new high… Read More
In a bid to overcome financial obstacles, the Port of Portland, custodians of Oregon’s sole international container hub, Terminal 6 (T6), has sought state aid. Curtis Robinhold, the port’s Executive Director, has penned a letter soliciting a $10 million lifeline from Oregon’s state officials. The plea was directed to notable figures such as Oregon House… Read More
HOUSTON – Port Houston ended the year on a high note with container twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) up 11% for the month as compared to last December. In addition, December 2023 was the biggest December on record for loaded exports, which were also up 11%, totaling 119,970 TEUs. Loaded imports increased 11% for the month compared… Read More
Portland city officials have announced they have secured just over $25 million to fund the first part of a new dredging project for Portland Harbor, to make sure the harbor remains deep enough to accommodate commercial traffic, including cruise ships. “We’re delighted to learn that we’ve secured the final piece of funding and can now… Read More
“We came out of Covid stronger than we were going in,” said Chris Chase, marketing manager for the Port of Los Angeles. The port now has year-round business from Royal Caribbean, which was in the works pre-pandemic, but is now a reality, he said. “They were not in the Pacific market and we worked hard… Read More
U.S. importers are rediscovering the lure of Southern California ports. Trade is swinging back to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach after a period in which pandemic-driven shipping disruptions and broader shifts in manufacturing pushed supply chains more heavily toward Gulf Coast and East Coast ports. The Southern California ports in September, October and November recorded… Read More
Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul J. Wiedefeld has announced Jonathan Daniels as the new executive director of the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration. Mr. Daniels is currently chief executive officer and director at Port Everglades in Broward County, Fla., and has more than 30 years of port and economic development experience. He will begin… Read More