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Importing LNG, despite US surplus

Peter Buxbaum | September 23, 2019 | Energy

During the winter of 2018, the LNG tanker Gaselys, laden with liquefied natural gas from overseas, was spotted in Boston harbor. The French energy company Engie bought the gas to meet demand during freezing weather in the northeast United States. The cargo being carried in the tanker came from a storage tank in the United Kingdom and contained a mix of gas that originated in Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago, and Qatar.

The natural-gas economy

Peter Buxbaum | September 23, 2019 | Project / Heavy Lift

In mid-June, the Philadelphia City Council approved a plan to build a $60 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Southwest Philadelphia. The Passyunk Energy Center will be a public-private partnership between city-owned Philadelphia Gas Works and Liberty Energy Trust.

Graphite One Mine could provide domestic sourcing of graphite

Anita Parlow | September 23, 2019 | Project / Heavy Lift

Pebble Mine runs high environmental risk

Anita Parlow | September 23, 2019 | Project / Heavy Lift

Tradeoffs in mining in Alaska?

Anita Parlow | September 23, 2019 | International Trade

Mining is keystone to the Alaskan economy. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in developing more mining assets with export potential. But climate change, adverse weather conditions, environmental issues and the sheer remoteness of many of the sites complicate developing the State’s mining resources.

Project cargo activity slows on St. Lawrence/Great Lakes waterway

Leo Ryan | September 20, 2019 | Project / Heavy Lift

In the past few years, project cargo has represented a steady growth business for Canadian ports on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence maritime corridor, led by wind farm components manufactured regionally or in Europe as well as industrial machinery for oil and forest sector developments.

CenterPoint’s McKiernan confident in future of inland intermodal hubs

Paul Scott Abbott | September 11, 2019 | Logistics | People | Industry Profiles

Applying principles learned in the military, Brian McKiernan is advancing the role of inland intermodal facilities as key nodes of international and domestic freight transportation.

Can freight data forecast a recession?

Peter Buxbaum | September 11, 2019

The assumption behind these projections is that movements in the levels of freight shipments are an indicator of broader economic activity, so that dips in cargo volumes signal an economic downturn.

The infrastructure investment merry-go-round

Peter Buxbaum | September 09, 2019 | Intermodal

U.S. highways and bridges continue their decline, and there is no prospect for a federal program on the horizon.

Is there a freight recession barreling our way?

Peter Buxbaum | September 09, 2019 | Intermodal

Economists are looking at whether there will be a freight recession and/or economic recession but indicators for each are moving in opposite directions.

When it rains, it pours for America’s barge industry

Matt Miller | September 09, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Canal and Waterway

For the American towboat & barge industry record flood in the Midwest and turbulent economic conditions make it seem like when it rains, it pours. Prospects for new business point to brighter times.

Tens of thousands of decrepit bridges in the US

Peter Buxbaum | September 09, 2019 | Intermodal

Midwest caught in the middle again

George Lauriat | September 09, 2019 | International Trade

Weather and the US-China trade war are taking a toll on the economy in the Midwest.

Crowded field of container projects on Canada’s East Coast

Leo Ryan | September 09, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

On Canada’s East Coast, the total container market is relatively small at approximately 2.3 million TEUs, with the deep inland Port of Montreal holding the lion’s share at 1.7 million containers handled in 2018.

With US-China trade war weighing heavily on them, Taiwanese companies in China consider moving out of mainland

Manik Mehta | August 19, 2019 | International Trade

As the ongoing US-China trade war continues to rage. the large number of Taiwanese companies that have been operating on mainland China seem to be considering moving out of the mainland to lucrative locations, particularly Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar, though other locations such as Malaysia and Thailand, despite their higher production and labor costs, are also being considered.

Electric vehicles charging ahead at Port of San Diego

Robert L. Wallack | August 19, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | Equipment and Tech

California’s progressive zero-emission vehicles’ regulations, robust public funding and incentive ecosystem are jolting the Port of San Diego into action.

Ports & Terminals

Paul Scott Abbott | Top Story | August 19, 2019

PortMiami Asia trade gets big boost from deeper channel, larger cranes

Timing is everything, as the proverb goes, and South Florida’s PortMiami is proving the adage aptly applies to its blossoming maritime trade with Asia.

‘Bullish believer’ Connor to apply love for shipping in assuming helm at AAPA

Paul Scott Abbott | August 19, 2019 | Ports & Terminals | People | Industry Profiles

A self-described “bullish believer,” Christopher J. “Chris” Connor is looking to apply nearly 40 years of ocean shipping experience, including as top executive of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, to leading a hemispheric association representing interests of more than 130 member ports in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America.