US forests reach new heights with wood exports
| March 12, 2018 | Maritime | Breakbulk News
The booming housing economy and furniture manufacturing, and even demand for whiskey are all affecting the surge in hardwood exports to North Asia markets. One in three boards coming off the production line is destined for the People’s Republic of China. Companies nationwide are supplying a variety of hardwood species to customers in China, Korea and Japan.
Thunder Bay’s diversification to capture surging breakbulk business
| March 12, 2018 | Maritime | Breakbulk News
General cargo hits 31,000 tons with Thunder Bay’s diversified cargo strategy. Located at the head of the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway System, the Port of Thunder Bay was long chiefly known as the eastern gateway of choice for grain exports from Canada’s Prairie provinces. Grain throughput has declined from peaks of more than 17 million metric tons in the early 1980s to just 7.2 million tons in 2017 due mainly to changing Canadian export grain trade patterns shifting from Europe to the Far East. But a diversification strategy, bolstered by the Keefer general cargo terminal equipped with a mobile harbor crane since 2012, has steadily transformed the port into a competitive player on North America’s virtual inland seas in breakbulk, project and dimensional cargo.
Select US Importers
| February 26, 2018 | International Trade
Datamyne data provides 12 months of aggregated statistics on the waterborne trading activity of US importers in the US.
Diaz hitting Mexico-Florida homerun with World Direct Shipping success
| February 26, 2018 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | People | Industry Profiles
Carlos Diaz was in the big leagues just long enough to have one MLB basehit, and now he’s knocking a metaphorical homerun as an ocean carrier executive with World Direct Shipping, a Florida-based line with an expanding presence in weekly services across the Gulf of Mexico.
Are we witnessing the end of KORUS?
Florida’s Gulf Coast seaports preparing to accommodate diverse activity growth
Florida East Coast ports meeting demand with enhanced facilities, deeper channels
| February 26, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
Ports along the Atlantic Coast of Florida are continuing to meet demands of growing commerce by advancing a bevy of infrastructure enhancements, including deeper ship channels.
Second inland port shows SC’s logistics prowess
| February 26, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
The South Carolina Ports Authority expects its second inland port, in Dillon, South Carolina, to open in April, a facility slated to support growing intermodal cargo volumes between the Port of Charleston and markets throughout the Carolinas, the Northeast, and the Midwest. The upcoming event will reflect South Carolina’s growth in logistics investments and freight movement.
US importers epitomize diversity of products
| February 26, 2018 | International Trade
One man’s import is another man’s landfill
| February 26, 2018 | International Trade
$5 billion in US scrap exports in jeopardy
| February 26, 2018 | International Trade
China recently took steps to close its waste and scrap market—the world’s largest—to imports, jeopardizing more than $5 billion in exports from the United States, the world’s largest waste and scrap exporter.
Asian furniture imports to US top $23 billion
| February 26, 2018 | International Trade
The American insatiable appetite for furniture makes the US a $100-billion dollar market. With a 70% slice of wooden imported furniture, Asian suppliers are ahead of the competition. But shifts in sourcing within Asia and new markets are redefining the furniture supply chain.
South Jersey Port Corp. moves ahead with bond issue, Paulsboro addition
| January 29, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
Having opened the initial portion of its Paulsboro Marine Terminal and with a bond issue offering funding for development of the second and final phase of the facility, the South Jersey Port Corp. is well-positioned to continue to break cargo records on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River.
Delaware’s Port of Wilmington advances timely plans for partnership, expansion
| January 29, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
With existing facilities virtually maxed out, the Delaware State Port Corp.’s Port of Wilmington is looking to have in place by midyear a private-sector terminal operator for its present 308-acre site, as well as for development of a recently acquired 112-acre waterfront tract a few miles farther up the Delaware River.
PhilaPort making solid case to attract still more cargo up Delaware River
Reducing project permitting time would be for the common good… but will it happen?
| January 29, 2018 | Energy | Alternative | Project / Heavy Lift
Common Good...mused Common Good chair Philip Howard, in a telephone interview. “All these people go clashing headlong, without any order and without any clears lines of authority to make decisions. You get a lot of heat and noise and no action.”
2020 – Landmark year for US wind power?
| January 29, 2018 | Energy | Alternative | Project / Heavy Lift
For Anderson Trucking Services’ ATS Projects, the dominant player in wind power-related land logistics, the rush by developers to get huge onshore wind projects up and running by the beginning of the next decade is being met with a certain amount of trepidation.
Wind over the prairies
| January 29, 2018 | Energy | Alternative | Project / Heavy Lift
There is a major wind power building spree coming on ahead of the loss of federal development initiatives in 2020. The question is how will the project supply chain handle the boom?
The challenges of offshore wind energy
GPA’s Port of Brunswick adds capacity for processing vehicles
| January 29, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
The Colonel’s Island Terminal at the Georgia Port Authority’s Port of Brunswick, about 80 miles south of Savannah, has increased auto-processing capacity by 50 percent over the past year, all of which has been absorbed by processors and manufacturers.
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