Infrastructure

Emmanuelle Verger and Rick Revoir are tapped to take the helms.

Sen. Susan Collins criticizes the president’s Transportation Department budget for offering “no path forward after the FAST Act expires.”

The $6 million project is expected to reduce diesel-related air pollutants by 45 tons annually.

The 16,500-square-meter facility is located within a three-mile radius of all six container ports at Busan New Port and less than 10 miles from Gimhae International Airport.

The project, which is scheduled to begin in September and be finished by December 2020, will nearly double the terminal’s current annual handling capacity to 600,000 TEUs.

The nine all-electric RTG cranes and three reach stackers are “the first part of $100 million to be invested in the first year” of a $500 million plan, GT USA Wilmington CEO says.

The ITS MARAD study found off-site staging areas with autonomous shuttles or virtual gates offer ports the best benefit-cost ratios.

The report found the nation’s seaports’ contributions to the economy have increased since the previous nationwide report published in 2014.

The federal funding will help pay for the multiphase project, which will allow Conley Container Terminal to handle vessels up to 12,000 TEUs once completed.

The acquisition of Poland’s largest container terminal is worth more than $1.1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The 11,000-TEU Cape Sounio, operated by ZIM on a service offered by the 2M alliance, arrived Monday after transiting the Panama Canal.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced the immediate availability of the “quick release” funds to help repair damaged roads in Tennessee and Ohio.

The 430-acre Logistics Center Hudson, located northeast of downtown Denver, is part of BNSF Railway’s $65 million investment in Colorado this year.

The Florida Ports Caucus met Tuesday to discuss the priorities and needs of the state’s ports.

The executive committee of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department set an agenda Monday that also eyed rail safety and combating commercial driver fatigue.

Huarong Energy, formerly known as Rongsheng Heavy Industries, which was China’s largest privately owned shipbuilder, sold the assets to the bond holder for HK$1.

Korea Development Bank will transfer its Daewoo stocks to a subholding company to be established by Hyundai Heavy in return for equity stake in the company.

The project, which is set to double the capacity of the largest container port on Sweden’s east coast, is expected to be completed by the fall of 2020.

Witnesses gave a Senate committee recommendations on how to streamline the permitting process to expedite project delivery.

A National Association of Manufacturers survey, which coincided with a speech by Vice President Mike Pence, found concerns remain about infrastructure.