Gary G Burrows
The Port of Long Beach started 2025 with its strongest January on record and its second-busiest month ever, largely driven by retailers moving cargo ahead of the anticipated tariffs on goods from China, Mexico and Canada.Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 952,733 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, in January, up 41.4 percent from the same month last year and surpassing the previous record, set in January 2022, by 18.9 percent. Imports ...
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HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, or HD-KSAOE, has revealed the design for a 15,000-twenty-foot-equivalent unit nuclear-powered containership that employs modular reactor technology.
The design, which was revealed Feb. 12 at the New Nuclear for Maritime Houston Summit at the Asia Society Texas Center, has received approval in principle from ...
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Rank-and-file members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, or ILA, overwhelmingly agreed to ratify provisions of a new six-year master contract with U.S. Maritime Alliance, or USMX.The ILA represents some 47,000 longshore workers at U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts ports, and nearly 99 percent of its members voted in favor of ...
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The re-routing of merchant ships around Cape of Good Hope instead of crossing the Bab-al-Mandab has not only led to significant changes in trade patterns and tonne-mile demand, but has also resulted in certain operational challenges, especially regarding the procurement of certain stores and spares items, according to a report ...
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Global container volumes increased 6 percent in 2024 to 183.2 million twenty-foot-equivalent units, according to full-year figures from Container Trades Statistics Ltd., or CTS.Three months in 2024 – May, August and December – each surpassing 16 million TEUs, a first in history. This achievement contrasts sharply with a relatively flatter ...
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Maryland officials on Feb. 4 unveiled the new design concept for the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild, which will replace one of Baltimore’s most iconic transportation landmarks.The design is a significant milestone in the multiyear project to restore the connection following the allision of the Singapore-flagged Dali with the iconic ...
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The Port of Baltimore's state-owned public and private marine terminals handled 45.9 million tons of cargo in 2024, its best year since 2023 when the port handled a record 52.3 million tons.More than 25.5 million of the nearly 46 million tons of cargo were handled during the last six months ...
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ABB, the Swedish-Swiss electric engineering corporation, and Sage Geosystems, a leading geothermal baseload and energy storage company, have agreed to collaborate on developing energy storage and geothermal power generation facilities that utilize natural heat from the earth’s core to produce clean electricity.The collaboration will allow ABB to support Sage’s agreement ...
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Singaporean project heavy-lift carrier AAL Shipping, or AAL, has chosen the ABB Ability OCTOPUS marine advisory system to optimize operations of its high-performance fleet of Super B heavy-lift vessels.ABB, the Swedish-Swiss electric engineering corporation, said its technology will help AAL enhance the safety and efficiency of its cargo-carrying operations.AAL has ...
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DP World’s ports and terminals handled a record 88.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, in 2024, up 8.3 percent year-on-year despite macroeconomic headwinds and concerns over the outlook for global trade.The Middle East logistics giant, whose global logistics business has capacity to handle more than 100 million TEU across ...
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