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In the span of just one day of stormy weather in January, so much sediment had clogged the entrance to the Santa Cruz Harbor that you could walk across the channel. Since the harbor is directly down the coast from the San Lorenzo River, all of the debris and sand from the channel flows right… Read More
Louisiana State University (LSU) and five Louisiana ports have forged a partnership to develop a pipeline of cybersecurity talent and technology in support of the state and the nation’s critical infrastructure. The collaboration, which grew out of the school’s “Scholarship First Agenda,” brings together the university’s burgeoning cybersecurity expertise with the river ports of Greater… Read More
South Carolina Ports’ Inland Port Dillon saw its busiest month in March, with more than 4,300 containers handled amid higher agricultural exports and higher imports of retail goods. That volume is 16% higher than the previous record set in December 2022 and higher than the facility’s 3,664 rail moves handled in February, itself a record… Read More
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) opened applications for the first round of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Discretionary Grant Program. As part of the President’s Investing in America agenda, the program will invest in projects to make the country’s surface transportation system… Read More
Environmentalists oppose any relaxation of state and local land use regulation. BILL OF THE WEEK: House Bill 3382 Commercial ports from Astoria to Coos Bay line the Oregon Coast. Despite those ports and its beauty, the coast remains economically depressed, with family-wage jobs scarce outside government or health care. Coastal lawmakers from both parties want to… Read More
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) – Wednesday was a big first step in a long journey to make the Port of Gulfport even more efficient and economically viable. The Army Corps of Engineers signed an agreement with the Port of Gulfport to begin a years-long environmental and economic impact study into dredging the shipping channel into the… Read More
Community leaders came together at the Port of Seattle’s Pier 66 today to welcome Norwegian Bliss for the first sailing of the 2023 cruise season. During the season stretching from April 15 to October 30, the Port forecasts that 289 sailings will carry 1.4 million revenue passengers, or 700,000 travelers, to Alaska and back. The 2023 cruise season… Read More
Senator Lindsey Graham requested $57 million in federal funding on Friday to go toward harbor deepening projects across the Palmetto State. The decision is part of his funding requests for the Fiscal Year 2024 Energy and Water Appropriations bill that the Senate is set to discuss later this year. The combined multi-million dollar request can… Read More
Port Houston has seen a robust demand for loaded export containers in March, despite a nationwide softening of imports. Loaded export volumes at Port Houston reached 349,964 TEU year-to-date. According to data, this is the highest monthly volume for loaded exports in its history, with a 26 per cent increase in the first quarter of… Read More
Coastal real estate must adjust to climate change and increasingly erratic weather, and Texas is leading the way. Spurred by heavy damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Texas General Land Office are mounting a $31 billion coastal resilience project on the Texas coast, the most expensive… Read More
Activity across Port Houston’s docks remains steady through March with total tonnage through the eight public terminals up 4% year to date, reaching 12,850,330 short tons. Amidst a nationwide softening of imports, in March, Port Houston continued to see significant demand in loaded export containers. Loaded export volumes at Port Houston reached 349,964 TEUs year-to-date,… Read More
Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka argued for a “crucial” West Coast labor contract while describing last week’s longshore shutdown of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as a “pause.” At his April 13th media briefing, Seroka said “I’d like to address last week’s pause in cargo operations: the Ports of… Read More
The Port of Los Angeles announced April 12 that it processed 623,234 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in March 2023, closing out a “soft first quarter.” Overall, the port has handled 1,837,094 TEUs through the first three months of 2023. When compared to 2022, this marks a 32% decrease in TEUs handled through the first quarter of 2023…. Read More
Momentum from Port of Houston, Baytown, expected to continue throughout 2023 Houston’s industrial real estate market had a strong start in 2023, according to a report by JLL. The market continued to grow as 6.6 million square feet of new supply was added in the first quarter, with 56 percent preleased. That resulted in 5.5… Read More
At the Port of Oakland, California, on a recent weekday, trucks, cranes and container-laden ships moved goods across the sprawling 1,300-acre complex with the precarious precision of a Rube Goldberg machine. Mere blocks from downtown Oakland, the port operates essentially as a city within a city. It’s the ninth biggest port in the country and… Read More