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The Mississippi State Port Authority said Feb. 1 it reached a long-term lease agreement between the Port of Gulfport and CORE X GULFPORT that will include constructing a 150,000-square-foot cold storage facility.The lease agreement has an initial term of 60 years with two 15-year renewal options. CORE X will invest US$73 million in what is considered the first investment in cold storage infrastructure since Hurricane Katrina.The facility will provide 21,000 ...
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BIMCO, one of the largest international shipping association for shipowners, has established a subcommittee to work on a global standard contract for the transport and installation of offshore wind turbines.The project aims to support the offshore wind industry as global demand for renewable sources of ...
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Multipurpose vessel operator Swire Shipping said Westwood Shipping Lines, a niche vessel operator acquired in June 2022, has integrated and has taken on the Swire Shipping name.Westwood Shipping operates between the Pacific Northwest and Northeast Asia, and Swire Shipping’s acquisition was part of the Singapore-based ...
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Dallas-based motor carrier Sterling Transportation said its Dallas terminal is now an official container freight station.The 14-door CFS is located in Coppell, Texas, just north of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. The 54,600-square-foot warehouse has more than 8,000 pallet positions, and is available for short- and long-term ...
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Singapore-based shipping line Ocean Network Express, or ONE, reported a sharp downturn in revenue, earnings and profit for the most recent quarter.The shipping line saw a third-quarter loss of US$83 million, a significant decrease from the year-earlier quarter’s profit of US$2.79 billion. Revenue fell 46 ...
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Liner carrier Hapag-Lloyd, which recently announced the Gemini Cooperative with A.P. Moller - Maersk, reported a significant decrease in earnings in its 2023 financial year.Group EBITDA was US$4.8 billion, compared with US$19.4 billion for fiscal 2022, which the company attributed to lower freight rates due ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation said it will distribute more than US$728 million for 37 projects that aim to bolster the nation’s freight infrastructure.The funds are available under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Mega Program and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Grant Program.The Mega Program, known ...
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The Port of New Orleans said it has been awarded a federal grant for an additional US$226.2 million towards the building of the Louisiana International Terminal, or LIT.The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the funding through the competitive grant program for Infrastructure for Rebuilding America ...
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Despite a strong December, container volumes handled at Port Houston in 2023 fell 4 percent to 3.8 million TEUs, short of the port’s record-setting year in 2022.The decrease was attributed to a large drop in empty repositioning volumes, the port said, while its strong exports ...
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A.P. Moller Maersk held a naming ceremony for the Ane Maersk, the world’s first large methanol-enabled container vessel, at the HD Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea.The Ane Maersk is the first of 18 large-methanol-enabled Maersk vessels to be delivered through 2025. It ...
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