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Texas cites volume gains as shippers make contingency plans during protracted dockworker contract negotiations As shippers continue to shift freight lanes away from West Coast ports, citing congested facilities and labor shortages, one beneficiary of the trend has been Port Houston, which has now risen from the seventh to the fifth rank among U.S. container… Read More
JAXPORT is inviting the public to celebrate the arrival of One Stork, the largest containership ever to call Jacksonville. The magenta-colored vessel is 364 meters (1194 feet) in length. That’s almost three and a half football fields! It can carry 14,000 containers. This is compared to other large ships to call JAXPORT which topped out at… Read More
May is shaping up to be an extremely busy month for the Port of New Orleans, and it’s not just because of the steady stream of shipments from all around the globe that make their way up the mouth of the Mississippi River daily. Port officials are celebrating the seventh annual Maritime Month during May, and… Read More
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan visited the Port of Savannah on Friday. They announced the development of programs that will invest $4 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act into port infrastructure. They said the investment will help grow our nation’s ports while also helping reduce noise and air pollution…. Read More
The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday confirmed three new members to the city’s Board of Harbor Commission, a five-member oversight group for the Port of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass nominated former U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Michael Muñoz and Lee Williams. The new commissioners will participate in their first meeting on May 11,… Read More
Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka today received the esteemed Stanley T. Olafson Award from the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, recognizing his work in the world trade industry and leadership of the nation’s busiest container port. Seroka accepted the award, one of the oldest and most prestigious chamber awards, at the… Read More
The five largest ports in California have teamed up to open data silos to enable better flow of data between industry stakeholders. With support from the state government, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, San Diego and Port Hueneme have signed an MoU for a California Port Data Partnership to “facilitate the sharing of data for… Read More
Three new members have been confirmed to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners, the five-member oversight board for the Port of Los Angeles. Nominated to the posts by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and approved today by the Los Angeles City Council are former U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Michael Muñoz and Lee Williams. All… Read More
Konecranes will provide 36 state-of-the-art Automated Stacking Cranes (ASCs) to The Port of Virginia® for a major capacity expansion investment that is part of the port’s ongoing drive to improve operational efficiency, capacity, and competitiveness in the global shipping market. The order’s value is over EUR 130 million and it will be booked in Q2 2023. The ASCs are for the Norfolk… Read More
Pangaea Logistics Solutions has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire marine port terminal operations in Port Everglades/Fort Lauderdale and port of Palm Beach in Florida, and the port of Baltimore in Maryland from Host Terminals, a subsidiary of T. Parker Host, in an all-cash deal. The Nasdaq-listed US bulker owner of 25 ships, operates… Read More
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced a $30 million investment toward developing a shared data system aimed at improving the flow of goods at the Port of Long Beach and four other major seaports in the state. The Port of Long Beach will devote its share of funding to the ongoing development, enhancement and… Read More
Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. (Nasdaq: PANL), a global provider of comprehensive maritime logistics solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire marine port terminal operations in Port Everglades/Ft. Lauderdale and Port of Palm Beach, Florida, and Port of Baltimore, Maryland from Host Terminals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of T. Parker Host, in an all-cash transaction. Pangaea… Read More
The ports of Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Hueneme and San Diego will receive a one-time $27 million allocation from the state budget to develop a shared data system aimed at improving the flow of goods, an attempt to tackle some of the logistics challenges that emerged during the pandemic and subsequent supply chain crisis…. Read More
Bye-bye, fossil fuels. Hello, renewable energy. At the behest of its suppliers and customers, the Virginia Port Authority is pushing ahead on a plan to go fully carbon-neutral by 2040. That means the group will purchase all of its power used for Virginia port operations from renewable energy sources and will eliminate the use of… Read More
Gov. John Bel Edwards appointed Jeanne E. Ferrer and Darryl D. Berger to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) this month to succeed outgoing commissioners Charles H. Ponstein and William H. Langenstein, III respectively. “I want to thank Commissioners Langenstein and Ponstein for their service,” said Brandy D. Christian,… Read More