Ports & Terminals

• Project will create hundreds of jobs • Crowley to redevelop Salem port site • Vineyard Wind partners to serve as anchor tenants

The recent decision by ocean carriers to reduce vessel service at the Port of Oakland and send more vessels to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has negatively impacted U.S. agricultural exporters in the middle of the harvest.

Shipments from a U.S. West Coast terminal that handles almost 20% of the nation’s soybean meal exports have been curbed while damage from a crane collapse earlier this month is repaired, marking the latest setback to global trade flows.

On the heels of reporting the second busiest month in its history, the Georgia Ports Authority Board approved more than $34 million to help expedite an additional 1.6 million twenty-foot equivalent container units in capacity that will begin coming online in December.

Yard improvements will complement the 47-foot harbor deepening project and berth enhancements that will be completed at Blount Island in 2022