MSC y Maersk agregarán una recalada en el puerto de Mobile en el Golfo de EE. UU. a su servicio conjunto ‘Golfo a SAEC String 1/ UCLA’.
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The evidentiary hearing that the Surface Transportation Board is conducting this week on Amtrak’s request to restore Gulf Coast service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans appears poised to stretch beyond its original two-day schedule as the board and witnesses wrangle over what is and isn’t within the board’s jurisdiction.
Amtrak is seeking to reestablish service between the two Gulf Coast cities after service was stopped in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Amtrak wants to run...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-hearing-on-amtraks-planned-gulf-coast-service-powers-on
Eastern U.S. railroads CSX and Norfolk Southern are involved in two projects aimed at bolstering intermodal infrastructure and assets in the South and Midwest.
Inland container transfer facility planned to support Port of MobileThe Alabama Port Authority has approved a $2.04 million purchase of 272 acres in Montgomery for construction of an inland container intermodal transfer facility that will support container traffic from the Port of Mobile.
The port says extending intermodal rail service...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/csx-norfolk-southern-tout-intermodal-investments-in-south-midwest
APM Terminals Mobile in Alabama is putting a spotlight on its freight rail capacity to handle imported goods from the Gulf Coast to Chicago and other popular Midwestern destinations.
The reminder comes as supply chains are grappling with congestion at Chicago as stakeholders seek to reduce the backlog of imports coming from West Coast ports into the city, long a popular distribution hub linking Western and Eastern rail networks.
The terminal is part of A.P. Moller-Maersk.
APM says it has access to...
Amtrak wants the Surface Transportation Board to expedite its review of Amtrak’s plans to reestablish passenger rail service in the U.S. Gulf Coast. The service was discontinued in the mid-2000s. But CSX and Norfolk Southern are saying, not so fast. The two freight rail carriers still want Amtrak to complete a comprehensive survey of how the passenger service would impact regional freight shipping operations.
Amtrak seeks to start operating passenger rail service between New Orleans and Mobile,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/csx-ns-and-amtrak-spar-over-gulf-coast-service
Several U.S. Class I railroad operations are preparing to safeguard their networks ahead of Hurricane Sally’s anticipated landfall on Tuesday.
The National Hurricane Center on Monday morning issued a hurricane warning for Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Florida border.
The hurricane warning also was in effect for Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas in Louisiana, as well as metro New Orleans. A hurricane warning means that hurricane conditions are expected somewhere within the warning...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/us-class-i-railroads-prepare-for-hurricane-sally
Airbus has more production capacity at its Mobile, Alabama, manufacturing campus for its A220 regional jet, but who will take delivery or make new orders is an open question as the airline industry struggles to generate business in the COVID era.
The European aircraft maker on Tuesday officially opened a final assembly line for the A220 and began production of the first U.S.-built A220 for JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) after tugs pulled three main sections into the building.
The 270,000-square-foot...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/new-airbus-production-line-for-small-jets-opens-in-alabama
An audience of over 1,000 dignitaries, community leaders, and Austal USA employees celebrated the christening of the future Mobile (LCS 26) last week at Austal’s ship manufacturing facility in Mobile, Ala. It is the third U.S. Navy ship christened at the shipyard in 2019 and the fifth ship named after the city. Mobile is the 13th of 19 small surface combatants Austal USA has under contract with the Navy.
“It is such an honor for a future Littoral Combat Ship to be named after the city of...
https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/austal-usa-christens-latest-lcs-in-mobile/
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama entered an order to auction off the retired U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bramble.
Once a familiar site on the Great Lakes, the Bramble will be sold at auction on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. The auction will take place at noon local time near the front entrance to the U.S. District Courthouse, 155 St. Joseph St., Mobile, Ala.
Bramble was the subject of a civil matter filed in August by several lien claimants. All further information on the case and the...
https://www.workboat.com/news/government/coast-guard-cutter-to-go-on-auction-block-dec-4/
