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PortMiami Completes Deep Dredge Project And On-Dock Intermodal Rail

PortMiami now offers Super Post-Panamax gantry cranes that can service cargo vessels up to 22 containers wide and up to nine containers above deck and eleven containers below.

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Will The Northeast Be Ready For Post-Panamax?

A deeper Panama Canal will give everyone along the East Coast a chance to seize more market share, but a gridlocked and fragile highway system could hurt the region’s ability to compete.

The Bayonne Bridge is only 151 feet above the water and larger container ships often cannot cross under it to reach marine terminals – Port Newark, Elizabeth and Howland Hook in Staten Island. Once the renovation is complete the Bridge will have a clearance of 215 feet.

West Coast Ports Report Surge In Import Trade

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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

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