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The new weekly Matson service to Long Beach will begin in mid-August and be in full deployment by early October. Matson Navigation Company announced Thursday that it is expanding its service between China and the Port of Long Beach by adding a second string of vessels. The new vessels will provide service from the ports of [...] Puget Sound longshore workers are experiencing a strong rebound. This photo was submitted by Seattle longshore worker Curt Treadwell. Submit your waterfront photos to longshorenews (at) gmail.com. Containerized imports at the Port of Seattle exploded last month, increasing 93.3 percent compared to June of 2009. The 88,763 TEUs recorded in June were the highest [...] This opinion piece is by Tom Chamberlain, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO, regarding the development of West Hayden Island, directly across from Portland’s container terminal 6. Tom Chamberlain, Oregon AFL-CIO president, says Portand must respect West Hayden Island's designation as industrial land and support port use as well as preservation. Sustainability is two-pronged: it must address [...] High fuel costs, slow steaming and other global factors have made going the extra distance through the Panama Canal less enticing. West Coast ports have fast rail connections to the east – considerably faster than going south to Panama, transiting the canal, and then steaming back north to the East Coast. Although ships ton-for-ton and [...] After a five-year lull, construction restarted this week on the final phase of the Main Channel deepening project at the Port of Los Angeles, which will eventually allow larger cargo vessels to access harbor terminals, officials announced Friday. “The Main Channel deepening project is a lifeline to maintaining our competitive edge during the critical years ahead [...] CMA CGM SA, the French shipper reorganizing 5.4 billion euros ($7 billion) of debt, is seeking to put together a new investor group by a July 26 court deadline, said people with direct knowledge of the matter. CMA CGM, which began talks with creditors in September, needs the reorganization to avoid insolvency after breaching covenants on [...] Port of Long Beach The long-planned $1 billion Middle Harbor Project redevelopment project will create a facility capable of handling twice as much cargo (up to 3.3 million TEUs a year) while cutting air pollution in half from current levels. This will be possible because ships will use shore power, and the facility will feature [...] Chassis will no longer be provided by several major carriers due to new rules on safety. The ‘Roadability Law’ as it is often referred to, has cause several leading shipping companies to withdraw the provision of the trailer chassis’ required in intermodal movements. Previously hauliers could collect both their designated container plus the trailer on [...] The new Total Terminal International Algeciras (TTIA) facility was officially opened at a ceremony in the Spanish port on Monday. Owned and built by the South Korean shipowner Hanjin Shipping and located in the Strait of Gibraltar, TTIA is the first semi-automatic container terminal both in the Mediterranean and Southern Europe. Several speakers mentioned the importance of [...] Late last week, shipping giants NYK Line and Evergreen announced they would stop providing chassis for cargo container units in the U.S. – effectively requiring truck owners to rent or own their own chassis. The announcements came in the weeks after similar news from shipping giants CMA CGM and OOCL. On Dec. 17, 2009, FMCSA began [...] Launched in 2006, the Emma Maersk measures 397 metres – quarter of a mile – from bow to stern, or longer than the any aircraft carrier. After months of speculation about their true capacity, AP Moller-Maersk Group has reported that the biggest ships in the company’s container fleet – which includes the world’s largest cargo [...] The CMA CGM Group has announced the introduction of two new calls in Cartagena (Colombia) and Puerto Cabello (Venezuela) on its BLACK PEARL service linking North America to Jamaica (Kingston). Effective from July 16th on a weekly basis, these new calls will provide new calls to the Colombian and Venezuelan markets for CMA CGM’s US East [...] “The container business has been doing very well,” Jacob Pedersen, an analyst at Sydbank A/S. “The lack of containers and sharp increase in rates are definitely benefiting Maersk Line. This may be a signal that pricing discipline has returned to the industry.” Maersk had been projected to report full-year net income of 14.6 billion kroner ($2.5 [...] The Westwood Columbia, photographed in front of Mt. Fuji in Japan, is named for the Columbia River. The Westwood Shipping Lines service will carry between 220 and 240 containers per month under a six month contract with an option to extend for an additional year. If it proves successful, Port officials say the service could [...] CMA CGM plans to gradually phase out providing chassis to truckers at terminals throughout the United States on a schedule starting on the East Coast in October and ending on the West Coast in March of next year.The carrier said Thursday it expects the new chassis supply management policy will generate greater operational efficiency and [...] |
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