December 2015
The long standing refrigerated warehouse at Port Corpus Christi was completely dismantled, and well on its way to its second life of service to Port Santa Marta, Colombia in December – per an agreement between the sister ports made in early 2015.
The completely disassembled, the warehouse components were loaded and shipped on the vessel, Onego Rotterdam.
In support of the alignment and construction of a new Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge Port ...
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Shipowner ACL is renewing its ConRo fleet on Transatlantic services between North America and Europe by bringing the first of five new and innovative ConRo vessels of the next G4 generation into service with the ATLANTIC STAR. She was cleared for the first time in the Port of Hamburg at ...
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The largest container ship ever to call at a North American port arrived at the Port of Los Angeles on Dec.26th.
CMA-CGM launched the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin on Dec. 10.The vessel made her maiden call at APM Terminals-Pier 400 at the Port of Los Angeles. The ship has a capacity ...
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Ryder Systems, Inc., a leader in commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation and supply chain solutions, has earned recognition as a Partner-level supplier for 2015 in John Deere’s Achieving Excellence Program.
The Partner-level status is Deere & Company’s highest supplier rating. Ryder was selected for the honor in recognition of its dedication ...
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With more than 99 million motorists expected to use the nation’s highways this holiday season – and only one traveling via flying sleigh – American Trucking Associations and the Share the Road highway safety program want to ensure everyone arrives at their destinations safely by being nice and not naughty ...
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Consolidated Aviation Services (CAS) is seeing an immediate return on the $2.5 million investment to expand its perishables handling centre at Miami International Airport (MIA) with throughput climbing to 70,000 tonnes in the first nine months of 2015, a 400% increase on its volumes before the investment.
CAS, the largest cargo ...
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TCBuen, the Colombian terminal belonging to the Spanish Grup TCB, received on December 18 the largest container vessel ever to have operated in Colombia. The M/V Maersk Edinburgh covers the AC2 service of Maersk Line connecting China and South Korea with the Pacific Coast of Central America. The service makes ...
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The US House and Senate passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, an omnibus appropriations bill on Dec. 18 that includes provisions to lift the oil export ban, approve reforms to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) requirements for beef and pork.
“The spending bill approved today ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines has completed its first-ever ‘air drop’ by parachuting 208 barrels of fuel from an IL-76TD-90VD freighter onto a remote airfield in the Antarctic.
The delivery from Novo will be used for inland scientific missions, vehicles and small airplane operations.
The 34-ton shipment was placed onto 26 special parachute platforms and ...
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Participants in the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) have finalized a deal that will phase out tariffs on 90% of global technology exports.
Expanding the ITA will particularly benefit exporters from states such as Washington, which is home to a large number of IT, medical device, and high ...
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