Ports & Terminals


5th annual ‘Ports Day’ slated for April 5, 2020

AJOT | March 27, 2020 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

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APM Terminals Barcelona maintains normal operations despite the Covid-19 crisis

AJOT | March 27, 2020 | Ports & Terminals | Terminals

The terminal is at optimum levels of productivity

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Worker at NWSA-licensed property tests positive for COVID-19

AJOT | March 27, 2020 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

The Northwest Seaport Alliance was contacted Wednesday, March 25, after an employee of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Industrial Tacoma (WWIT) heavy-equipment processing center tested positive for COVID-19. The employee was last at work on March 20 and has since been in self-quarantine.

Port of LA’s Seroka outlines efforts to protect workers and keep port operational
Ports & Terminals
Stas Margaronis | Top Story | March 26, 2020

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Port of LA’s Seroka outlines efforts to protect workers and keep port operational

In a press conference, today, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka gave a wide-ranging report addressing contamination threats to workers from the Coronavirus and working with maritime partners to keep the Port operational in response to supply chain disruptions in China and the United States.
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Drewry port throughput indices for March 2020

AJOT | March 26, 2020 | 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.

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World trade hit by virus sees worst collapse in a generation

Bloomberg | March 26, 2020 | International Trade | Ports & Terminals

The global economy’s most abrupt and consequential shock in at least a generation is unfolding at ports and other hubs of international commerce as the U.S. and Europe struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

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Hong Kong February exports unexpectedly rise despite virus

Bloomberg | March 26, 2020 | Ports & Terminals

Hong Kong’s exports rose unexpectedly in February after plunging the most in more than a decade the previous month as the impact of the escalating coronavirus outbreak on global trade was offset by the timing of the Lunar New Year holiday.

Port of Virginia handles first container of COVID-19 test kits with more on the way
Ports & Terminals
AJOT | Top Story | March 25, 2020

Port of Virginia handles first container of COVID-19 test kits with more on the way

The Port of Virginia® is beginning to handle its first import containers of COVID-19 test kits and protective gear for frontline medical personnel and is processing that cargo in rapid fashion through a newly-instituted critical cargo initiative.
GPA COVID-19 Update letter

AJOT | March 25, 2020 | Ports & Terminals

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Indian ports in chaos as virus lockdown hits operations

Bloomberg | March 25, 2020 | Ports & Terminals

India’s government told all major ports that the coronavirus fight is a valid reason to halt some port operations, leaving traders in disarray about the flow of goods in and out of the world’s seventh-biggest economy.

Port of Oakland’s Driscoll: Imports and exports rising In March
Ports & Terminals
Stas Margaronis | Top Story | March 24, 2020

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Port of Oakland’s Driscoll: Imports and exports rising In March

Port of Oakland Maritime Director John Drsicoll says that exports and imports with Asia are on the rise - last week, 9 vessels arrived at the Port “within two days,” indicating that “trade with China is ramping back up.”
Seaway opens bringing vital goods to market

AJOT | March 24, 2020 | Ports & Terminals

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Port of Savannah up 17 percent  in February

AJOT | March 24, 2020 | Ports & Terminals

The Port of Savannah achieved its busiest February ever last month, handling 364,405 twenty-foot equivalent container units, an increase of 17 percent over the same month last year.

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