Ports & Terminals

Mississippi commerce needs US investments to defend against future flooding
Ports & Terminals
Stas Margaronis | Top Story | July 30, 2019

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Mississippi commerce needs US investments to defend against future flooding

Maritime commerce along the Mississippi River is slowly recovering after 2019 rains and floods disrupted port operations, shipping, tug and barge services, roads and farming, but the region cannot fully recover without a dramatic increase in federal spending for expanded levels of flood control that must be made along with federal spending for other long-neglected infrastructure investments, according to Sean Duffy, executive director of the Louisiana-based Big River Coalition.
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Port of Savannah moves record 4.5M TEUs

AJOT | July 30, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

The Port of Savannah moved a record 4.5 million twenty-foot equivalent container units in the fiscal year that ended June 30, an increase of more than 305,000  TEUs or 7.3 percent.

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Port of Boston sets new record in cargo volumes

AJOT | July 30, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) announced another record year for the Port of Boston’s Paul W. Conley Container Terminal. From July 2018 through June 2019, Conley handled 307,331 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) – an 8% increase in cargo volumes over FY2018 and a new all-time record for the fifth consecutive year. Total imports also rose by 12% over FY18 to 152,960 TEUs in advance of pending tariffs.

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Masonville Cove Campus fully reopens after bald eagles complete nesting season

AJOT | July 30, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

The Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center campus has fully reopened after temporary restrictions to protect of a pair of nesting bald eagles were lifted this month.

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Kalmar completes the delivery of forklifts and reachstackers to Ashdod Port, Israel

AJOT | July 29, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

The order was booked in Cargotec’s 2018 Q3 order intake and delivery of all machines was completed during Q2 2019.

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Puerto Aguadulce CSR among the best in the Americas

AJOT | July 29, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

The Organization of American States (OAS) recently awarded the Puerto Aguadulce-COMPAS Foundation with the coveted 2018 Maritime Award of the Americas in Social Responsibility for Sociedad Puerto Industrial de Aguadulce’s (SPIA) landmark initiative to uplift Colombians out of poverty.

The Panama Canal and UN Environment join forces on sustainable development and climate action
Ports & Terminals
AJOT | Top Story | July 29, 2019

The Panama Canal and UN Environment join forces on sustainable development and climate action

The Panama Canal, which connects the Pacific Ocean with the Caribbean Sea, will work alongside UN Environment to accelerate its sustainable environmental management efforts.
GT USA Wilmington marks successful implementation of new terminal operating system
Ports & Terminals
AJOT | Top Story | July 26, 2019

GT USA Wilmington marks successful implementation of new terminal operating system

New system to enhance company’s operational excellence in terminal management and customer service
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APM Terminals Barcelona acquires new equipment

AJOT | July 26, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

100% of the latest investments (€ 47M) are operational

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ICTSI Argentina gets new petrochem clients

AJOT | July 26, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Terminals

More companies are choosing TecPlata, a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) in Buenos Aires as Argentina’s preferred international trading gateway, with two big companies added to its growing number of clients. State-owned energy firm Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF), and the Argentine subsidiary of Dow Chemicals recently signed agreements with TecPlata to handle their cargo and service their import-export needs. Both companies operate several facilities in greater Buenos Aires, which hosts a bustling petrochemical industry. Initially, YPF has started to export lubricant products to the city of Santos in Brazil and import raw materials from Pecem, one of the most important ports in the Brazilian state of Ceará. YPF’s chemical division has already started to ship ISO tanks to Brazil from TecPlata. Dow meanwhile will export polyethylene (PE) from TecPlata to the Port of Itajaí, in Santa Catarina in southern Brazil. Log-In, among the shipping clients calling at TecPlata, will facilitate the transport of these materials through its regular calls to Brazil. Welcoming this latest development, Bruno Porchietto, TecPlata chief executive officer, said: “These agreements are very important for us, and fill us with optimism towards our goal of bringing the terminal to the highest level of capacity. The fact that these two companies, YPF and Dow Chemical, transport part of their cargo through our terminal is an encouraging sign that we are on the right track.” TecPlata is the country’s first port of call due to its easy access to sea lanes. With state-of-the-art infrastructure, equipment and computer systems, the terminal is free of congestion, giving it a strategic advantage to become the preferred gateway for the country’s various agro-industrial products.

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Saporito appointed Executive Director role for South Jersey Port

AJOT | July 26, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Ports | People | Appointments

Andrew Saporito, a 38-year veteran of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is the new executive director of the South Jersey Port Corporation.

S&P Global Ratings affirms Halifax Port Authority’s A+ credit rating

AJOT | July 26, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

PierPass posts “2.0” update results

AJOT | July 26, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Terminals

Expected strike JNPT, India

AJOT | July 25, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

Kalmar to deliver eight heavy-duty forklifts for fleet renewal programme at C.RO Ports terminals

AJOT | July 25, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

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Port throughput indices for July 2019

AJOT | July 25, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

The Drewry Container Port Throughput Indices are a series of volume growth/decline indices based on monthly throughput data for a sample of over 220 ports worldwide, representing over 75% of global volumes. The base point for the indices is January 2012 = 100.

Port of Oakland exports up with help from China’s neighbors

AJOT | July 25, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

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Containers drive throughput growth in port of Rotterdam

AJOT | July 25, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

The port of Rotterdam achieved throughput of 240.7 million tonnes in the first six months of 2019. That is 3.4% more than in the first six months of 2018. Container throughput, one of the strategic priorities of the Port Authority, rose by 4.8% (in tonnes, +6.4% in TEU) by comparison with the first six months of 2018, which is also a new throughput record. That growth was mainly due to higher import and transhipment volumes.

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ICTSI Manila continues equipment roll-out

AJOT | July 24, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) recently took delivery of another new quay crane (QC) and eight new hybrid rubber tired gantries (RTGs) for its flagship Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), establishing the terminal as having the largest fleet of modern container-handling equipment in the Philippines today with 18 QCs and 58 RTGs.

FY2019 yields cargo record,  completion of construction at VIG, progress on multiple projects

AJOT | July 24, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

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