US Ocean Container Services Changes
The Evergreen fixed-day, weekly service will link key ports in Japan using four 2,000 to 3,000 twenty-foot-equivalent (TEU) vessels. The first departure...
Logistics Supplier Honored
Container shipping line APL was recognized by United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) for volunteering its vessels to transport 875 wheelchairs to impoverished people...
Container Shipping Changes With Shifting Market Tides
As commerce has become and continues to be more international, ocean container shipments have grown exponentially as a means of moving most any kind of...
Improving Trade Brings Challenges in Mexico
Continuing Expansion at Pacific Ports Mexicos secretary of Transportation and Communications, Luis Telles, speaks of projected growth projects for Mexican...
Horizon Lines Moves PGA Tour to Puerto Rico
Preparations for the Puerto Rico Open got underway as Horizon Lines moved tents, leader boards, bleachers, catering equipment and golf clubs from across...
Reducing Energy Use Target of Logistics Operations
To reduce its carbon footprint, the Port of Vancouver USA has purchased green e-certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) associated with its electricity...
Clean Air Charge Coming to Oakland
NITL has expressed its concern that initiatives similar to those at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will not achieve the purposes they are designed...
Workers to Close Ports For a Day
The ILWU resolution to close ports in California, Oregon, and Washington would affect the day shift on May 1st. The move is intended to protest the war...
Top Ocean Carriers Reorganize, Share Asian Service
Responding to diminished freight volumes in movements between Asia and the US and increasing costs for bunker fuel, Maersk, CMA-CGM (Compagnie Maritimed'Affrtement-Compagnie...
Valencia Ports Offer Electronic Bookings
Through expanded services with INTTRA, the port of Valencia's single portal now supports INTTRA-Link bookings, along with a range of other electronic...
APL Enhances Day-Definite Delivery Asia to US
The new service complements the APL Logistics Less than Container Load (LCL) day-definite product, OceanGuaranteed, introduced in August 2006. APL Logistics...
Savannah Gets Major New Cranes, Sets New Freight Records
The cranes were designed in Finland and made in China. The Port ordered them two years ago from Konecranes VLC. They are capable of handling super post-Panamax...
The Panama Canal Raises Marine Service Fees
In explaining the climb, the Canal Authority notes that over the past eight years it has spent $1.329 million in upgrades of its fleet of tugboats, locomotives...
Rotterdam Port Takes a Third Loan
The current loan, the third large loan the Port Authority has taken out within a month, brings the total borrowings to 2 billion ($2.9 billion). Loans...
Affordable Container Security Passes Its First Test
Jointly developed by GE Security and CIMC Group (China International Marine Containers Group Ltd.), the Tamper Evident Secure Container (TESC) integrates GE’s CommerceGuard container security device into a standard maritime shipping container...
Using a Kite to Tow An Ocean Cargo Vessel
The Voyage of the MS Beluga from Bremen to Guanta, Venezuela in late January marked the world's first use of the SkySails towing system to provide an...
Southern California Ports Approve Fees on Containers
The Infrastructure Cargo Fee takes effect January 1, 2009 and is expected to rise from $15 per twenty-foot-equivalent unit (TEU) to $18 per TEU in 2010....
Container Ports End Volume Slump
The National Retail Federation and Global Insight reported that container freight volumes moving through US retail container ports rose above previous-year...
Three Pacific Canadian Port Authorities Join Forces
Named the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA), it combines the Fraser River, North Fraser and Vancouver Port Authorities. Its jurisdiction will cover...
Maersk Raises Container Rates
Maersk Line will increase prices for a standard 20-foot container by $160 and for a standard 40-foot container by $200. The change was effective January...
LA/Long Beach Proceeding With Tax
The Long Beach port commissioners were expected to vote on a proposal to implement a $35-per-TEU tax that would apply through 2012. The tax, for every...
Placing the Pieces for the Heartland Corridor
Tasks of tunnel topping and floor dropping are now taking place along the Norfolk Southern rail line through Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio...
Ports America Group Buys Bayonnes Maritime District
Purchase price for the property from the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority (BLRA) for the historic 153-acre site was $90 million. The purchaser, Ports...
Ocean Cargo Container Slump Continues
The estimated 1.36 million twenty-foot-equivalent (TEU) volume level is down from the 1.46 million TEUs reported by the ports surveyed in October and...
French Container Line Buys US Lines
CMA CGM is based in Marseilles, operates a fleet of 350 vessels of which 110 are owned by the company. It serves 400 ports globally in 150 countries and...
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