Approximately 85 cruise port leaders and staff, cruise line executives, government officials and private-sector experts from throughout the Americas (and beyond) assembled in San Diego, February 14-15, for AAPA’s biennial Cruise Seminar. Participants included cruise port execs from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and the United States.
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Darryl D. Berger took the oath February 23 as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans. Appointed by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, he succeeds Scott Cooper as one of four Orleans Parish representatives on the seven-member regional board.
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The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) joined the Virginia Port Authority (VPA) in a February 24 filing with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to create the "East Coast Gateway Terminal Agreement." The agreement encourages voluntary cooperation in the areas of operational and supply chain efficiencies, safety, communications and customer service.
The Port of New Orleans has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the St. Louis Regional Freightway to exchange market and operational information with the goal of growing trade and building upon existing and new business relationships.
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A computer simulation has confirmed that both new classes of ultra large container vessels (ULCVs) – those handling 14,000 and 18,000 TEUS — can safely navigate the Port of New York and New Jersey. The critical components to facilitate such transits will be communication and coordination among the various port stakeholders, said port department officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The 2M Alliance consisting of Mediterranean Shipping Company and Maersk Line is adding North Carolina’s Port of Wilmington to its TA2/NEUATL2 Europe-U.S. East Coast container service, effective April 2, 2017. The service operates with four vessels averaging 4.867 TEUs in capacity in a rotation that also includes Bremerhaven (Germany), Felixstowe (UK), Antwerp (Belgium), and Le Havre (France).
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Port Tampa Bay joined new tenant Port Logistics Refrigerated Services February 23 in celebrating another milestone in the construction of a cold storage facility that will expand the port’s refrigerated import/export cargo handling capacity.
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Four tugboats built for the U.S. Navy by Port of San Diego tenant Maxine Group Boat Works were shipped overseas December 17 from the port’s Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal. They will be stationed at a naval base in Sasebo, Japan, that provides logistic support to the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
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The Georgia Ports Authority achieved outstanding January results, with double-digit growth across all business sectors and a 26 percent increase in total tonnage. At the Port of Savannah, container throughput set a January record of 331,468 TEUs. Indiana’s three public ports together handled nearly 3.9 million tons of cargo during the fourth quarter of 2016, the most for any quarter in the 55-year history of the state port authority, Ports of Indiana. Major cargoes included coal, steel, grain, fertilizer and limestone. The Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) reports January container volumes at its Seattle and Tacoma marine terminals jumped 17.5 percent from a year ago to 257,312 TEUs. That included double-digit gains for imports, exports, domestic shipments and empty containers.
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