The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Wednesday began to impose a 35-dollar fee on cargo containers entering or leaving the ports in a bid to help subsidize the replacement of thousands of polluting trucks. The fee is expected to raise about 1 million dollars a day, or about 1 billion dollars over the next few years, at both ports to finance 80 perc...
Following nearly three years of study, the Manatee County Port Authority approved Port Manatee’s $750 million master plan Feb. 19th. The new master plan directs continued expansion efforts at Port Manatee for five decades, with an immediate focus on opportunities associated with the expansion of the Panama Canal scheduled for completion in 2014. A p...
Truck traffic moved smoothly at the Port of Long Beach on Thursday, February 19, 2009, a day after the ports' Clean Trucks Program began using an electronic gate access system to check compliance and to collect a truck replacement fee. There was no congestion Thursday, as more than 90 percent of the trucks entered terminals without a problem. However, tra...
The amount of unitized transport traffic handled by Port of Helsinki declined to 10.86 million tons. The number represents an 8.6 per cent reduction compared to the previous year. The economic recession was clearly visible, as both export and import traffic sank considerably towards the end of the year. The volume of unitized goods declined by 3 per cent a...
National Retail Systems, Inc. (NRS), a provider of global logistics services to America's retailers, has deployed 115 Clean Air pier trucks to comply with the Clean Truck Program requirements scheduled to take effect tomorrow at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Under Clean Truck Program provisions, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Bea...
Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co Ltd (ZPMC), a world leading manufacturer of cranes and large steel structures, said it has received a $80 million order from Vale, the world's largest iron ore developer and supplier. Under the contract signed today, ZPMC will supply cargo handling equipments to be used in Vale's project in Oman. The equipments are ...
Days after EB24/7 broke the news about Fujairah's new port, which is expected to handle 60 per cent to 70 per cent of Abu Dhabi's total oil exports, Mousa Murad, General Manager, Fujairah Port, reveals details about the plan in an exclusive interview. The facility will have 17 docks to store and transport crude oil. Murad said expansion work is going ahea...
January loaded oceangoing cargoes at the side-by-side ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach fell 18.7 percent from the previous January. The two Southern California ports, the two busiest in the United States, handle more than 40 percent of imported consumer goods, Reuters reported. The two ports showed inbound cargoes down 14.4 percent and out...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi