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Kicking off 2024, the Montreal Port Authority’s lead looked back at development on projects in 2023, and a look towards the Canadian port’s future.
Geneviève Deschamps, interim president and CEO, appointed in August, detailed a few projects in the port’s recent in-house publication, Logbook. Meanwhile, the port’s efforts towards its Contrecoeur expansion project.
Canadian Transport Minister Pablo Rodriquez announced an allocation of US$150 million from Canada’s National Trade Corridors Fund, a major ...
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The Port of Long Beach expect to ride the steel wheels towards becoming a zero-emission seaport, CEO Mario Cordero said Jan. 17 during his seventh state-of-the-port address.
Construction is expected to start this year on the Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility, which aims to move ...
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Maritime research and consulting service providerDrewry said its World Container Index increased 23 percent to US$3,777 per 40-foot container for the week of Jan. 18.
Drewry Supply Chain Advisors’ WCI composite increased 82 percent when compared to the same week last year. Further, the FEU rate ...
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Dole Ocean Cargo Express LLC has introduced service between the U.S. Northeast and Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
The new offering, dubbed Mayan Express Service, expands Dole’s network coverage by providing an alternative to North Central America and the Port of Wilmington, Delaware.
Two 1,200 40-foot-equivalent-unit ...
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Bolloré Logistics Chile recently completed a complex logistics operation to transport a 650-cubic-meter mobile drilling rig, consisting of five parts, weighing 118 tonnes, from Argentina through Chile, China and Mongolia.
The dimensions and weight of the mobile drilling rig presented a significant challenge for the team ...
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Ports of Indiana is nearing completion of $1.2 million in infrastructure improvement projects launched at Mount Vernon in 2023 and has ramped up its engineering and accounting resources.
The Ports of Indiana-Mount Vernon infrastructure projects included purchasing of a winch system for positioning barges at the ...
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Norwegian logistics service provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen has reached agreement with Kalmar, part of Cargotec, to supply four heavy electric forklift trucks, two electric reachstackers and three heavy terminal tractors for the carrier’s U.S. logistics network.
The order, which also includes the Kalmar Insight fleet performance management ...
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Entering 2024, the Port of Brownsville has named William Dietrich as interim port director, succeeding Eduardo A. Campirano, former port director and CEO.
The Brownsville Navigation District Board of Commissioners began a national search for a new port director and CEO in August, and named Dietrich ...
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Swire Projects, the projects and heavy-lift shipping arm of Swire Shipping, has launched a dedicated semi-liner service between East Asia and the West Coast of North America.
The service, which previously operated on an ad hoc basis, will improve connectivity and support growing demand for breakbulk ...
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Intermarine, the multipurpose carrier for the Americas and collaborator with the heavy-lift Jumbo-SAL-Alliance, said Jan. 10 that it will expand its fleet with four heavy-lift vessels.
Intermarine has secured four vessels on long-term charter, sailing under the names Industrial Fraternity (F360), Industrial Skipper (F500), Industrial Swift ...
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