| February 26, 2018 | International Trade
| February 26, 2018 | International Trade
China recently took steps to close its waste and scrap market—the world’s largest—to imports, jeopardizing more than $5 billion in exports from the United States, the world’s largest waste and scrap exporter.
| February 26, 2018 | International Trade
The American insatiable appetite for furniture makes the US a $100-billion dollar market. With a 70% slice of wooden imported furniture, Asian suppliers are ahead of the competition. But shifts in sourcing within Asia and new markets are redefining the furniture supply chain.
| January 29, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
Having opened the initial portion of its Paulsboro Marine Terminal and with a bond issue offering funding for development of the second and final phase of the facility, the South Jersey Port Corp. is well-positioned to continue to break cargo records on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River.
| January 29, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
With existing facilities virtually maxed out, the Delaware State Port Corp.’s Port of Wilmington is looking to have in place by midyear a private-sector terminal operator for its present 308-acre site, as well as for development of a recently acquired 112-acre waterfront tract a few miles farther up the Delaware River.
| January 29, 2018 | Energy | Alternative | Project / Heavy Lift
Common Good...mused Common Good chair Philip Howard, in a telephone interview. “All these people go clashing headlong, without any order and without any clears lines of authority to make decisions. You get a lot of heat and noise and no action.”
| January 29, 2018 | Energy | Alternative | Project / Heavy Lift
For Anderson Trucking Services’ ATS Projects, the dominant player in wind power-related land logistics, the rush by developers to get huge onshore wind projects up and running by the beginning of the next decade is being met with a certain amount of trepidation.
| January 29, 2018 | Energy | Alternative | Project / Heavy Lift
There is a major wind power building spree coming on ahead of the loss of federal development initiatives in 2020. The question is how will the project supply chain handle the boom?
| January 29, 2018 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
The Colonel’s Island Terminal at the Georgia Port Authority’s Port of Brunswick, about 80 miles south of Savannah, has increased auto-processing capacity by 50 percent over the past year, all of which has been absorbed by processors and manufacturers.
| January 29, 2018 | Intermodal | Rail
From development of a consolidated rail terminal at the Port of Savannah to expansion of inland port capabilities, the Georgia Ports Authority is assertively building upon its intermodal links.
| January 29, 2018 | Logistics
Among testaments to the priority of the supply chain in the Peach State is the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics, a unit of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, which puts on an annual industry summit and furnishes year-round assistance and expertise to businesses that combine to annually move more than $900 billion of cargo through the state.
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