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The U.S. Coast Guard in Miami conducted spot checks at 38 facilities Tuesday to assess compliance with the mandatory Transportation Worker Identification Card. Effective Jan. 13, certain port workers regulated under the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) are now required to hold a TWIC. The TWIC serves as an identification card for all per...
Florida’s Port Everglades received approval Tuesday from the Broward County Board of County Commissioners to start construction on a new 41-acre container terminal. Miami-based Tran Construction won the bid for the Phases VIIA and VIII cargo terminals in the Southport area of Port Everglades in the amount of $13.3 million including contingencies. F...
The new Dames Point terminal in Jacksonville built by MOL's TraPac affiliate, has worked its first ship. The CMA CGM Virginia arrived at about 10 p.m. Monday and working through Tuesday discharged and loaded about 800 containers. The ship is deployed in the New World Alliance's trans-Panama ESX service, which connects the Chinese ports of Ningbo, ...
The 31-member Congressional delegation for California has lambasted the Federal Maritime Commission for what the legislators perceive as delays imposed by the agency on the Southern California ports’ truck re-regulation program. Addressed to the three sitting FMC commissioners, the Jan. 7 letter slams the panel most directly for the agency’s f...
The U.S. government should lift restrictions on foreign dredge operators as a way to tackle the backlog of dredging projects in deep seaports, Thomas Kornegay, executive director of the Port of Houston Authority, said Monday. He also proposed that the three Class I railroad carriers serving Houston relinquish intra-city service to concentrate on lon...
Container shipping volumes at the mainland's two largest ports fell by the sharpest on record last month with throughput in Shanghai dropping six percent and in Shenzhen by 15.7 percent, and the situation could deteriorate, the South China Morning Post reported. Fundamentals are still winding down, wrote Ally Ma in a Citi report, which cited the ...
Tianjin port operators say total cargo volume is expected to rise 7.3 per cent this year to 380 million tons against last year's throughput increase of 15 per cent to 354 million tons, reports Bloomberg News. That means 2009 is expected to take away some, but not all of 2008's gain when container volume increased 20 per cent last year to 8.5 mill...
The economy of Chile is booming and growth is expected to be 12pc this year, Chile is now the third largest market for Argentine beef, taking 11,000 tons for the second 6 months of 2008. Cruise ships are now delivering over 400,000 passengers a year on the ABC Triangle, which is Argentina, Brazil and Chile, so the government of Chile is to build a ne...
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