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West Coast Ports Report Surge In Import Trade
Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA)
The healthy performance that suggests the Pacific ports may have finally worked through major delays and congestion that plagued them during and after protracted labor negotiations with the West Coast dockworkers union over much of the past year.
FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2015 file photo, the Space Needle towers in the background beyond a container ship anchored in Elliott Bay near downtown Seattle.
3PL/4PL
Global Maritime Investments Files For Bankruptcy Protection
The company has lined up $2 million in bankruptcy financing, money to safeguard assets around the globe from being seized by creditors, court papers say.
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Imports Rebound At Los Angeles And Long Beach Ports
Imports through Los Angeles were up 6.3 percent from last August, with the port receiving 407,804 20-foot equivalent units, a standard measure for container cargo. The neighboring Port of Long Beach moved 358,262 import TEUs, an increase of 19.1 percent.
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A.P. Moller-Maersk To Acquire Spain’s Largest Container Terminal Operator
A.P. Moller- Maersk
The deal adds 11 terminals to the 63 that APMT already operates around the world and is one of the biggest acquisitions in APMT’s history.
Grup Maritim manages container terminals in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Turkey and Spain.
Transportation
FMC Delays Port Of Oakland Proposal To Assess Fees To Cover Saturday Shift
Port of Oakland
The commission has concerns about the program being proposed based on an initial review and comments received from various stakeholders who would be impacted by the program.
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Featured In Food Logistics: Trade Heats Up In The U.S. Southeast
Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT)
The U.S. Southeast region comprises over 60 million consumers, all of whom live within a day’s truck drive from the Port of Jacksonville.
The 8,100 TEU MOL Competence arrived at JAXPORT’s TraPac Container Terminal at Dames Point.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
Port Of Oakland Terminals Plan To Charge For Peak Time Container Cargo
Port of Oakland
The four international marine container terminals at the Port of Oakland announced they are developing a program to operate their terminal gates on Saturdays to reduce weekday congestion at the port.
Idle cranes at the Port of Oakland.
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Tacoma And Seattle Ports Launch Northwest Seaport Alliance
Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)
The Northwest Seaport Alliance unifies the two ports’ marine cargo terminal investments, operations, planning and marketing to strengthen the Puget Sound gateway and attract more marine cargo to the region.
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Supersized Cargo Skipping Smaller U.S. Ports
Port operators from Newark, N.J., to Long Beach, Calif., are spending billions of dollars to dredge harbors, raise bridges and build larger terminals to accommodate megaships.
The last major container shipping line ended its Portland run in March, leaving the city without regular ocean-bound container service for the first time in four decades.
3PL/4PL
Georgia Ports Authority Teams With CSX On New Inland Port
Georgia Ports Authority
Operated by the Georgia Ports Authority, the Appalachian Regional Port will deliver goods more efficiently to the GPA's Garden City Terminal, the second busiest container port on the East Coast behind New York-New Jersey.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, right, announces a Memorandum of Agreement to establish the Appalachian Regional Port near Chatsworth, Ga., along with, from right, Murray County Commissioner Brittany Pittman, Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Curtis Foltz, CSX Senior Vice President Clarence Gooden, Ga. Senator Charlie Bethel, and Ga. House Speaker David Ralston, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Chatsworth, Ga. The inland port, due to open in 2018, will serve as a direct link from the Port of Savannah to North Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and parts of Kentucky.
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East Coast Ports Face Warehouse Crunch
The expansion of the Panama Canal is reshaping seaports up and down the U.S. East Coast, as local governments spend billions to deepen harbors, raise bridges and make other infrastructure improvements in anticipation of larger ships.
Warehouse
Risk/Compliance
Feds Grill 19 Ocean Carriers On West Coast Ports Collaboration
Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)
FMC commissioners expressed support for the agreement at the time, but they said it would be closely monitored to identify any anticompetitive activity.
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