The Port of Boston - calling 617
New England is one of the nation’s most affluent regions. A strong consumer driven economy keeps ships calling Boston’s 617 area code. The port is the region’s hub and annually handles over 200,000 TEUs. It has become a model for mid-sized ports nationally – a most remarkable improvement from two decades ago. But as is the case of many U.S. niche ports, dredging is the single most important challenge and will Washington, DC answer the call?
Anchors aweigh - FedEx Ground to build a distribution center at Tradepoint Atlantic’s Sparrows Point
Fedex Ground inks deal as anchor tenant at Tradepoint Atlantic’s new tri-modal logistics site in Sparrows Point, Baltimore.
Port of Davisville RI posts sixth consecutive record-breaking year
The Port of Davisville is one of the top ten auto ports in the US and has posted six consecutive years of “record breaking” effort. Nothing new for a port with a posting of 547% growth rate over the past two decades, and with infrastructure improvements in the works, the best may be yet to come.
SeaLand Atlantico service: Philadelphia-Mexico an ideal solution
Almost exactly sixty years ago the SS Ideal-X loaded with 58 containers left Port Newark, New Jersey for Texas. It was the beginning of the containerization era, and an ideal solution to using a ship’s economies of scale to move freight handled by trucks.
Baltic reboot: Is Baltic 2.0 around the corner?
In the six years leading up to the Great Recession of 2007/8, the Baltic states along with Nordic neighbors were the leading performers in Europe.
“Long Haul Legacy” delivers
The book, Long Haul Legacy by F. Martin Harmon (Atlantic Book Printing), tells the tale of long haul trucking in the U.S. This is a story that has been told more than once, but Harmon fills in some important details left out of many accounts on the unique evolution of trucking in the U.S. The subtitle “SMC3 and the Evolution of Motor Freight” is frequently missing from most accounts, and frankly the omission is as big as Superman without his cape.
Copper: Tarnished but hasn’t lost its luster
The copper sector, like nearly all metals, has been tarnished by the slow downturn in economic activity over the last fourteen months. Lower demand in key consuming nations like China and the EU have resulted in big cutbacks in production. But copper is one of the most versatile of metals and still has luster for many industries dependent on the metal.
The Mar Camino solution
Copper concentrate is the raw material used to produce copper ingots. The copper concentrate also contains sulfur. Dry smelting performed by smelters in Japan like Saganoseki Smelter and Refinery, remove the sulfur content as a byproduct and process it into sulfuric acid.
SOLAS: INTTRA tackles a weighty matter
On July 1st, the IMO’s (International Maritime Organization) amended SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea Convention) provisions will require, as a condition for loading a packed container on a ship for export, that the container must have a verified weight.
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