American Fast Freight will open the largest cargo terminal on Alaska’s Kodiak Island on May 2. The terminal is a 6,000-square-foot terminal built two miles from the Port of Kodiak and will receive shipments in 40-foot containers, flat racks and temperature-controlled trailers. Interstate cargo coming from the lower 48 states will be consolidated […]
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and the owners of seven “C-series” container ships are seeking damages of ¥13.8 billion ($135 million) from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in connection with the MOL Comfort incident. The 8,000-TEU MOL Comfort split in two and sank off the coast of Yemen in June as it sailed from Singapore to Jeddah. […]
California’s Port of Hueneme has conducted its first operational and safety vessel test of its recently installed grid-based shore-power system. The first vessel to test the new plug-in system was Hamburg Süd’s Cap Pasley.
MOL (America) said it will stop supplying chassis for store-door moves (where a container is delivered to a consignee or shipper’s place of business rather than a marine terminal) effective May 1.
The Lake Carriers’ Association, which represents 17 American companies that operate 57 U.S.-flag vessels on the Great Lakes ice, said only three coal cargos were loaded so far this season starting in March — one on Lake Superior, one on Lake Michigan and one on Lake Erie. The association said its members’ vessels […]
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has expanded its roll-on/roll-off vessel service to South America’s west coast this month by adding a monthly call to San Antonio, Chile. “San Antonio is an important addition to WWL’s ocean network because of its close proximity to Santiago, Chile’s capital — a rising market for both auto and heavy […]
OIA Global, a Portland, Ore.-based logistics services provider, has opened a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “Consistent with last year’s acquisition of Bellville Rodair International, OIA Global is continuing our growth strategy, allowing us to further build our infrastructure in one of the world’s fastest growing markets,” said Charlie Hornecker, OIA’s chief […]
The American Institute for International Steel reported shrinking steel exports in February over January, especially for the NAFTA region, which represents about three-quarters of total U.S. steel exports. The association reported a 9-percent drop in U.S. steel exports to Canada, and an almost identical 9.3 percent drop of these shipments to Mexico. […]
A 2,840-TEU container ship, the Hansa Constitution, went aground in Hong Kong harbor on Sunday afternoon. A video posted to YouTube shows the 633-foot ship slowly coming to rest just short of a seawall near playing fields at the University of Hong Kong in Pok Fu Lam. The ship is owned by […]
Saltchuk Resources said it will acquire Tropical Shipping, a company that operates ships between the U.S. and Canada and the islands in the Caribbean and Bahamas, from AGL Resources, an Atlanta-based natural gas utility holding company. AGL Resources did not say what the sale price was, but said, “after-tax cash proceeds and repatriated […]
CEO Lovetro says chassis pool operator “intent on providing a broader suite of services.” TRAC Intermodal, the largest chassis leasing company in North America, is looking to enter the drayage business. TRAC’s fleet of 310,000 chassis is spread across the United States among 546 locations for its marine chassis and 154 locations for […]
OOO “Garant-S” sued Empire United Lines and Michael Hitrinov, its president and owner, for losses arising from a third-party theft of Garant’s automobiles.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission made the right call in late March not to block the P3 Network, which Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM plan to start later this year. The three largest container carriers will operate the mega vessel-sharing agreement in the transpacific, transatlantic and Asia-Europe trades. They […]
Singapore has bold plan to relocate container terminals. Port planning doesn’t get more audacious than this. Singapore, home to the world’s second largest container port, is simultaneously undertaking a huge expansion of its Pasir Panjang Terminal, while making plans to eventually relocate container operations to Tuas at the western edge of the country, an […]
Navios Maritime Holdings controls a fleet of 64 dry-bulk ships, workhorses of the sea that carry commodities such as grain, soybeans and iron ore. However, during a recent presentation about its business, specifically in a section touching on the prospects for a subsidiary called Navios South American Logistics, Angeliki Frangou, Navios’ chairman and […]
Rising U.S. oil and gas production expected to drive harbor and terminal upgrades over next several years. The boom in U.S. oil and gas production is having a beneficial effect on the Port of Houston, one that’s expected to keep growing in coming years. “The energy sector, the resurgence in that field — […]
MarAd’s acting chief says “cargo will create a demand for ships, and ships create a demand for mariners.” A year after taking charge of the U.S. Maritime Administration, Paul “Chip” Jaenichen sounded the alarm about the future of the U.S. Merchant Marine. Responding to questions during a hearing in March before the […]
The Practising Law Institute has published the Maritime Law Answer Book, written by Charlie Papavizas and H. Allen Black. Both are partners at the Washington office of the law firm Winston & Strawn. In their preface, the authors say their aim was to write a book that would be handy for both lawyers […]
Fednav in late March said it had become the first shipping company to use drones to check ice conditions on the water during a commercial voyage. The Umiak I, one of Fednav’s icebreakers, used a variety of video-equipped drones to scout ahead of the vessel in the ice-covered waters off the Labrador Coast. […]
About $487 million will be spent modernizing the Saint Lawrence Seaway over the next five years, some on a new mooring system that will use vacuum pads instead of ropes to secure ships as they transit locks on the canal.
