Archives



July 2024

Maersk Offshore Wind Forms to Meet Demand

Maersk Offshore Wind will provide installation services to the offshore wind market based on a new innovative offshore Wind Installation Vessel, or Maersk WIV.The design and concept are estimated to substantially reduce the installation time of offshore wind turbines compared to conventional methods, thereby lowering the overall installation cost for the developers, Maersk said.The Maersk WIV is developed to be permanently stationed at the wind farm to conduct successive installations, ... [+]

LA-Long Beach Ports Fund Charging Units

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will provide US$25 million in partnership with regional air quality agencies to jump-start charging infrastructure for electric heavy-duty drayage trucks in the largest U.S. container ports.The Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee is leading some US$135 million in projects that will ... [+]

The Kearney Cos. Leases NOLA Warehouse

The Port of New Orleans said it has purchased the 210,000 square foot warehouse located at 5200 Coffee Drive in the Uptown section of its Port of New Orleans Terminal.The acquisition is supported by a new, 10-year lease with The Kearney Cos. Inc., a subsidiary of Precision Terminal Logistics.The port ... [+]

Georgia Ports Fulfills CCO, CFO Succession

Georgia Ports Authority has appointed Flavio Batista as chief commercial officer and Rob Dooley as chief financial officer, part of a succession plan put in place in 2023 for the retirement of Cliff Pyron as CCO, and Michaela Thompson as CFO.Batista joined GPA as vice president of sales and marketing ... [+]

Brunswick Continues Record Ro-ro Pace

Though the Georgia Ports Authority benefitted greatly from roll-on, roll-off cargoes diverted from the Port of Baltimore following the closure of that shipping channel, the Port of Brunswick is on pace to handle more than 860,000 ro-ro units at Colonel’s Island Terminal in fiscal year ended June 30.The Port of ... [+]

Chiquita, Port Freeport Sign 5-year Lease

Port Freeport in Texas has reached a five-year lease agreement with Chiquita Fresh North America, with an option for an additional five years, which the port said marks “a milestone in their ongoing partnership.”"We are extremely excited about the continued partnership with Chiquita," said Phyllis Saathoff, executive director/CEO of Port ... [+]

Stehle to Leave UHL to Return to deugro

Project industry veteran Dominik Stehle will leave United Heavy Lift at the end of the third quarter and will take the same title, chief commercial officer, at deugro.Stehle returns to deugro, where he worked for nearly a decade as executive vice president and member of the executive board, and where ... [+]

Study: 40% of Shippers, 3PLs Invest in IT

Descartes Systems Group, a provider of-demand, software-as-a-service solutions, said a study found that 40 percent of shippers and logistics service providers plan to invest in transportation technology to prepare for industry and regulatory changes.Decartes’ study, its eight-annual Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey, surveyed more than 630 shippers and LSPs based ... [+]