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FMC examines COVID-19 impacts on New York/New Jersey ports

Rebecca Dye, U.S. Federal Maritime Commission

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has entered “phase two” of a fact-finding investigation launched earlier this year by the agency into the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the regional ocean container supply chain.

Following the first phase of the investigation, which focused on the virus impacts at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, in this next phase the FMC will spotlight the ocean shipping industry’s experiences with COVID-19 at marine terminals across the New York and...

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Fednav shores up maritime operations

Canada’s largest privately owned bulk carrier has placed all of its marine-related activities under the leadership of a new single Marine Department.

Montreal-based Fednav Ltd. also placed Tina Revsbech, executive vice president, in charge of the Marine Department, which will combine the shipping company’s chartering and operations but also their counterparts in the shipowning, technical and Arctic units.

Tina Revsbech, executive vice president of Fednav Ltd. (Photo: Courtesy)

Revsbech has more...

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Port of LA chief: ‘We will need to reinvent ourselves’

The Port of Los Angeles loses approximately $400,000 in revenue with each canceled sailing. With 28 blanked sailings forecast for the remainder of the second quarter through June 30, that’s $11.2 million in revenue the port won’t collect.

“But the story is much greater than that,” said Port of LA Executive Director Gene Seroka of the coronavirus pandemic. “So many folks now are seeing the impacts, whether it be on quarterly earnings announcements, their decisions on personnel, what we see in the...

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