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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Biggest Ship MOL Competence Arrives at TraPac Jacksonville JAXPORT

Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT)

TraPac Jacksonville Vice President and General Manager Dennis Kelly explains how larger cargo ships like MOL's Competence contribute to Northeast Florida's thriving economy.

Biggest Ship MOL Competence Arrives at TraPac Jacksonville JAXPORT

Port Of Antwerp Reports Record Growth In 2014

Port of Antwerp had handled around 198.8 million tons of freight by the end of the 2014.

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Global Reefer Shipping Market Poised For Modest Growth To 2019

In the report “Global Reefer Shipping Market 2015-2019,” the major regions analyzed are North Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

Danish shipping and oil group A. P. Moller-Maersk could split up into separate companies, its chairman said on Thursday after naming Soren Skou, the head of its container business, as chief executive.

Longshoremen, PMA Still “Far Apart” On US West Coast Contract Talks

Pacific Maritime Association (PMA)

The current contract expired nearly six months ago, and the PMA is charging the longshoremen with deliberately working slower due to the stalemate in contract talks.

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The Dirty Side Of Ocean Shipping

What happens on the high seas isn’t necessarily visible from land and the industry is largely unregulated when it comes to emissions.

A slowdown in Chinese economic growth has hammered the global shipping industry, which exited the Great Recession to take advantage of low interest rates to buy new ships to handle a rising amount of coal, iron ore and consumer goods. But as China’s factories scale back and the economies of Europe and North America gear down, the amount of cargo traversing the oceans has slowed.

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Vietnamese Exporter Makes First Fresh Longan Shipment To U.S.

Anh Duong Sao Co, based in Ho Chi Minh City, specializes in exporting tropical fresh produce such as rambutan, longan, mango, coconut, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pomelo and passion fruit worldwide.

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Creating The Next Gen Global Food Supply Chain

Foodservice providers, restaurants, and grocers are among those tasked with responding quickly to shifts in consumer demands, while simultaneously staying on top of their own business demands and those of their suppliers.

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Maersk Container To Start Reefer Production In Chile

Maersk Container Industry (MCI)

Maersk Container Industry (MCI) announced it will open a new reefer container factory in San Antonio, Chile, the first factory to produce refrigerated containers in Latin America.

Danish shipping and oil group A. P. Moller-Maersk could split up into separate companies, its chairman said on Thursday after naming Soren Skou, the head of its container business, as chief executive.

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Maersk Line Announces January Rate Increase And Surcharge

A.P. Moller- Maersk

Both the general rate increase and the peak season surcharge will take effect GRI Jan. 15, 2015.

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Maersk Line To Close Pacific Shipping Service

In a notice advising customers of the decision, Maersk Line said the overall trans-Pacific trade and its TP5 service between North China, South Korea and Japan to the West Coast had provided unprofitable results for nine out of the last 10 years.

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Georgia Ports Continue To Report Record Freight Activity

Georgia Ports Authority

Savannah's Garden City Terminal handled a record 311,759 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) in October - a 13.6 percent increase (37,432 TEUs) compared to the same month a year ago.

Georgia Ports Authority's Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah.

Software & Technology

WAM Technologies Launches Remote Monitoring For Vessels

VesselConnect offers a low-infrastructure, cost-effective alternative to older power line modem (PLM) technology for remote reefer monitoring, which requires ships to be fitted with cables and other control hardware.

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