by Paul Scott Abbott Jun 14, 2016
Mid-Gulf ports enhancing infrastructure while attracting new commercial activity (2 of 3)
Throughout the central Gulf region, ports and their private-sector partners are advancing major infrastructure projects serving oil and gas interests and more.
Mid-Gulf ports enhancing infrastructure while attracting new commercial activity (3 of 3)
Throughout the central Gulf region, ports and their private-sector partners are advancing major infrastructure projects serving oil and gas interests and more.
Stanley Furniture’s Wolfe depends on Port of Virginia, rail connection
While most of furniture transport moved off the rails decades ago following trucking deregulation, Steve Wolfe, vice president for global supply chain and logistics at Stanley Furniture Co., counts on a rail link offered through the Port of Virginia as a key to low transportation costs.
Caterpillar relies upon supply network, not ‘chain,’ Georgia event attendees told
Don’t tell Caterpillar Inc.’s vice president and chief procurement officer that his job includes overseeing the heavy equipment company’s supply chain.
Petrochemical boom spurring growth in activity at ports of US Gulf region
The flourishing U.S. petrochemical industry is propelling an era of expanding activity for Gulf region seaports, according to presenters at the eighth annual Critical Commodities Conference in New Orleans.
Spliethoff links project shippers with world via Port of Cleveland
For oversized cargo of such shippers as Caterpillar Inc. and the Rolls-Royce Energy unit of Siemens, as well as for containers, the Spliethoff Cleveland-Europe Express is providing a cost-saving link between the U.S. Midwest and points throughout the world.
Port of Virginia moving forward to enhance mid-Atlantic gateway
Officials of the Port of Virginia are busy working to ensure that infrastructure limitations don’t hold back decades of sustained future growth as a mid-Atlantic gateway of choice for burgeoning container volumes.
E-commerce, lower East Coast rates, more inland ports offer opportunities for logistics
The logistics industry can expect to see increasing opportunities with the growth of e-commerce and greater demand for inland port facilities, while Savannah and other U.S. East Coast seaports can look to benefit from lower all-water rates, according to industrial real estate expert Curtis Spencer.
Pacific Lumber & Shipping’s Leeds skillfully putting the log in logistics
Exporting logs isn’t exactly an exercise in nuclear science, but it has plenty of its own complexities, to which Tom Leeds, the president of Pacific Lumber & Shipping, to this day applies his experiences of more than three decades ago as a Hanford Project engineer.
Nucor exec opens New Orleans event with plea for infrastructure, fair trade
Fair global trade practices and greater U.S. infrastructure investments are essential to the success of American business, a steel industry executive said today [April 13] in opening the Critical Commodities Conference in New Orleans.
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