Barbara Melvin will succeed Jim Newsome at the helm of South Carolina Ports next summer and will become the first woman to lead a top-10 U.S. container port.
For the time being, two ocean services will not call Georgia’s busy Port of Savannah.
“By investing more than $2 billion in port infrastructure in recent years, we have the capacity to handle the influx of imports we are seeing today,” says SCPA CEO Jim Newsome.
A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled the International Longshoremen’s Association cannot force the use of union labor at the Port of Charleston’s new Leatherman Terminal.
Container volumes were “strong” in August amid continued retail import volume growth at the Port of Charleston, the South Carolina Ports Authority said.
South Carolina ports started the fiscal year off with a bang, moving a record volume of containers in July.
Fiscal year 2021 was not only a banner year for South Carolina Ports but also a roller coaster one as volume lows in July 2020 transitioned quickly to record number of TEUs handled.
South Carolina Ports is touting two new export facilities projects that will have access to the Port of Charleston: a production facility and distribution center for winemaker Gallo and an agricultural transload facility run by Northwest Grains.
The “unprecedented” influx of imports continues on the West and East coasts.
Get your cameras ready along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina.
Containers, vehicles and rail moves contribute to a record April for the South Carolina Ports Authority.
In the next two weeks, only two container ships are slated to berth at the new Leatherman Terminal. Forty are scheduled at the Port of Charleston’s neighboring Wando Welch Terminal.
“Both Hapag-Lloyd and USMX were well aware that the work in question would have been handled by ILA members” if the vessel had gone to another port, the International Longshoremen’s Association lawsuit asserts.
“We have invested in the right infrastructure at the right time to handle growing cargo volumes and bigger ships,” says South Carolina Ports’ Jim Newsome.
“Our all-time container record reinforces that we are adding more capacity to the Port of Charleston at the right time,” says South Carolina Ports CEO Jim Newsome.
Maersk and ZIM ships are being deployed in response to “customers’ increased cargo demands.”
Suez Canal accident aftermath: Extensive disruptions are ahead for key Asia-East Coast container shipping services.
“As retail imports continue to boom during the pandemic, the ability to quickly move goods from ships to the hinterland via rail is paramount,” says CEO Jim Newsome.
“As we continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the time to accelerate our throughput and growth,” says Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.
Drugs valued at more than $411 million are offloaded at Port Everglades, and the new Long Beach bridge shines bright.
