Ports & Terminals

Project cargo on the rise at Port of Antwerp thanks to EU Green Deal

AJOT | January 27, 2022 | Project / Heavy Lift | Maritime Project | Ports & Terminals

Conventional breakbulk grew by 74% in 2021

Equity Group Investments partners with East Coast Warehouse

AJOT | January 27, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

Port of Long Beach releases revised draft master plan update

AJOT | January 27, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

Update will guide land use in Long Beach’s Harbor District

Damen Shipyards to build four RoPax ferries for Penang Port Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia

AJOT | January 27, 2022 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | Ports & Terminals

Latest data from FourKites on ongoing supply chain disruptions in ocean shipping

AJOT | January 27, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

Ukraine trade arteries show Putin’s options short of all out war

Bloomberg | January 27, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

Business at key ports has been decimated since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and even a minor attack in the area could hinder efforts to revitalize trade.

Smooth ports completes the first project phase of the project

AJOT | January 27, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

South Jersey Port Corp. announces appointment of Perks to Director of Engineering

AJOT | January 26, 2022 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | Ports & Terminals

Infrastructure bill will fund $2.2 billion in inland waterway projects

On January 19th, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its “spend plans” outlining the specific inland waterways projects that were allocated funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Infrastructure Package) totaling $2.22 billion.

Around the world with 80 cranes

• Liebherr mobile harbour cranes looks back on a successful 2021 with more than 80 new machines sold and an unrivaled order intake volume • Liebherr remains the clear market leader in the field of mobile harbour cranes • Worldwide strong demand for electric main drives and the all-electric LPS 420 E

Konecranes provides 17 automated rubber-tired gantry cranes in fully integrated solution for Port of Felixstowe

AJOT | January 26, 2022 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

The Port of Felixstowe (Felixstowe), operated by Hutchison Ports, has ordered 17 Automated Rubber-Tired Gantry Cranes (ARTGs) from Konecranes. The order was booked in Q4 2021. The ARTGs will be delivered and commissioned in a project covering 3 phases starting in Q2 2023. Completion and go-live is scheduled for Q4 2025. The new ARTGs will be fully electric, powered by busbars, and delivered as carbon neutral.

Federal funding announced for navigation improvements at the Port of Long Beach

AJOT | January 26, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

Officials announced recently that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is receiving $8 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding help to make navigational efficiency improvements to Port of Long Beach waterways that will allow visiting ships to transit the harbor faster, reduce transportation costs and cut pollution.

IDFA, Port of Los Angeles and CMA CGM form joint initiative to advance US dairy exports

GPA tops 5.5M TEUs, 650K units in 2021

AJOT | January 25, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

Expanding terminal capacity by 25 percent

South Carolina Ports welcomes its first shipment of chassis

AJOT | January 25, 2022 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

SMART chassis pool opens Spring 2023

Svitzer AMEA extends contract with Suez Canal Authority

AJOT | January 24, 2022 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

Svitzer, leading global towage provider and part of Maersk, is today announcing another extension of its current contract with the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) to include two additional tugs to service the Suez Canal.

Biden to talk up anti-inflation efforts as risks and prices rise

Bloomberg | January 24, 2022 | Intermodal | Road | Ports & Terminals

2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Supply-Chain Feature

AJOT | January 24, 2022 | Ports & Terminals

2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Supply-Chain Feature, a congressionally-mandated report on capacity and throughput at the top U.S. maritime ports, is now available from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). As part of its Port Performance Freight Statistics Program, BTS publishes continuously updated tables and reports a snapshot to Congress each January.

Living with Covid proving tough for a gridlocked world economy

The surging omicron variant is complicating the recovery for a world economy that continues to be wracked by supply chain chaos, worker absenteeism and faltering assembly lines.