Tag: Port

May 8, 2023

As disclosed, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will invest $3 billion to fund zero-emission port equipment and technology and to help ports develop climate action plans to reduce air pollutants, improve air quality and public health in neighboring communities, and advance […]

January 30, 2023

On Wednesday, the Port Authority for New York and New Jersey announced 2022 saw the highest cargo activity on record, with a 27 percent growth over its pre-pandemic activity. In its reports for December 2022 and the full 2022 year, […]

November 21, 2022

Pacific Environment’s Ports for People campaign has launched a new initiative to assess port progress towards zero-emission shipping, P4P RePORT Cards. As explained, the initiative aim to hold ports accountable for shipping emissions and encourage leadership towards zero-emission ports and […]

November 17, 2022

As a group, they spoke highly of major expansion projects the port has undertaken in recent years, such as a project to enlarge the ship channel up Mobile Bay and to open up container rail traffic directly from the port […]

September 20, 2022

The Dutch Port of Rotterdam has awarded compatriot Swietelsky Rail Benelux with a contract for the construction of a new pipeline strip along the Moezelweg to increase hydrogen and CO2 transport capacity. According to the Port of Rotterdam Authority, the […]

September 15, 2022

The Port of Los Angeles, the highest-volume container gateway in America, is diverging from the nationwide trend. U.S. container imports remain close to record highs, yet imports to LA are falling double digits. On Thursday, the Port of Los Angeles […]

August 22, 2022

The demand-led spikes seen during the pandemic that propelled container shipping to record earnings are now a thing of the past, according to new analysis from Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence. Sea-Intelligence has run the numbers on supply and demand during the covid […]

August 19, 2022

The Port of Los Angeles had its best-ever July, officials announced Aug. 17, outpacing the same month last year, which was the previous record, by 5%. Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 935,345 20-foot equivalent units, the industry’s measuring standard, in […]

August 15, 2022

The Alabama Port Authority set a new benchmark in July, moving more cargo containers than ever before, and port officials say that Mobile’s performance in an era of supply chain turmoil is being noticed. Over the last decade, the Port […]

August 2, 2022

The Request for Information (RFI) issued at the end of July builds upon the results of an internal audit, which found that the port authority needed to stabilize its costs and energy supply and cut its greenhouse gas emissions. “The […]

June 24, 2022

Road, rail and port projects may have to be curtailed or delayed because of the effect that rising inflation is having on the purchasing power of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill enacted last year. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act […]

June 10, 2022

President Joe Biden’s administration is trying to avert another inflation-spawning logjam at the nation’s busiest seaport, just as the economy is starting to recover from the last one. Biden will visit the port of Los Angeles on Friday with the […]

June 1, 2022

The Port of Baltimore has been awarded $15.6 million from the Federal Railroad Administration to improve intermodal rail yard infrastructure at the port. The improvements will include the construction of four working rail tracks totaling 17,670 track feet and two […]

March 24, 2022

The comprehensive study, delivered in partnership with Connected Places Catapult, also found that 78% of port emissions in Aberdeen North Harbour are attributed to vessels at berth. Moreover, the study revealed that a proposed demonstrator project could provide green shore […]

February 17, 2022

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach rebounded from year-over-year December volume drops and reported January records. The Port of LA handled 865,595 twenty-foot equivalent units last month. It was the best January in the port’s 115-year history and […]

January 3, 2022

The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex was the poster child for supply chain gridlock in 2021, with dozens of vessels scattered for miles off the coast waiting for a berth and piles of containers bringing landside cargo flow to a […]

December 29, 2021

2021 will go down as the year the mainstream media took notice of West Coast port congestion. American Shipper was writing about global port backups, shutdowns and labor issues months — no, decades — before supply chain snarls in Southern […]

December 10, 2021

Oregon’s Congressional delegation recently sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Office of Management and Budget urging funding for the state’s port infrastructure as the Army Corps implements the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of […]

October 29, 2021

President Joe Biden’s point-person for clearing the supply-chain bottleneck in southern California hailed a new agreement that will fast-track multiple logistics projects in the Golden State. The Emerging Projects Agreement is the first time the federal government has teamed with […]

October 13, 2021

President Joe Biden tried to reassure Americans on Oct. 13 that he can tame high inflation, announcing a deal to expand operations at the Port of Los Angeles as prices keep climbing and containerships wait to dock in a traffic […]