Atlantic Marine Holding acquired two firms this week. The company bought Boston Ship Acquisition, which operates two large dry docks in Boston and Philadelphia and provides maintenance, repair, overhaul and conversion services for non-U.S. Navy, government vessels and cruise ships. In addition, Atlantic Marine took over Millennium Industrial...
A group calling itself Citizens Related to the Port of Charleston plans to hold a meeting on Monday, “to express appreciation to those in the maritime shipping industry for their years of service to the Charleston community.” The Charleston Post and Courier newspaper said the program is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium...
A union representing Canada’s Pacific Coast union dock foremen and the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association agreed to continue their talks this Saturday, avoiding a potentially crippling port strike that could have started as early as Friday, Jan. 2. The union foremen, members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514...
A federal mediator on Tuesday was able to reach a short-term understanding between union labor and the California Department of Transportation over the loading of steel bridge parts from a Chinese vessel. The International Longhsore and Warehouse Union claimed that they were denied the right to unload a ship which arrived at the Port of Oaklan...
PSA International and its joint venture partner in a container terminal at the south Indian port of Tuticorin are in a tussle with India’s port regulation agency over steep cuts in tariffs that the terminal operator said it’s allowed to charge to its customers. This week the Tariff Authority for Major Ports (TAMP), a governmental agency that s...
SHANGHAI International Port Group (SIPG) handled 2.29 million TEU in November, increasing 1.8 per cent, Logistics Week reported. SIPG's overall tonnage in the same month fell 12.3 per cent to 26 million tonnes. Foreign trade cargo dropped 1.6 per cent to 19.6 million tonnes. From January to November, the group's cumulative container throughput ros...
THE Chiwan Container Terminal (CCT) in the southern China port of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, has welcomed the arrival of a second mega containership operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company within a month. The terminal operator said in a statement that the 13,798-TEU MSC Daniela berthed smoothly at CCT on Christmas Day, after the earlier successf...
THE Tampa Port Authority has authorised US$19 million spending for dredging and $8.3 million for the first phase of container terminal expansion, all part of a $40 million investment package, reported Newark's Journal of Commerce. The money will come from terminal operator Ports America and the port authority with the engineering contract being awarde...
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