At the September 11, 2018, Commission meeting the Port of Grays Harbor Commission authorized Executive Director Gary Nelson to sign an Option to Lease 85 acres of property adjacent to port-owned Marine Terminal 3 from the City of Hoquiam. The land would be required if BHP, a global resource company, should select Grays Harbor as the preferred site for their proposed potash export facility.
Hoquiam’s City Council also authorized the Option to be executed at its City Council meeting on...
Another Port of Oakland marine terminal operator has announced that it’s opening night gates to accelerate containerized cargo flow. TraPac plans to add a second shift for harbor truckers beginning Oct. 15.
The move enables thousands of drivers to pick up or drop off Oakland containerized cargo from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., Monday-through-Thursday. Port officials said night operations should accelerate cargo flow while reducing truck queues that sometimes build outside terminal gates.
TraPac becomes the...
The Port of Oakland on Thursday reported the busiest August in its 91-year history, a record start to its peak season with imports up 9.2 percent from a year ago.
The Port, the third largest in California and among the nation’s top 10, attributed the gains to strong U.S. consumer spending.
“We’re encouraged by the solid start to peak season, but there’s still uncertainty in the trade environment,” said Port of Oakland Maritime Director John Driscoll. “Let’s see what the next...
Daily Breeze photo of the sea lion, rehabilitated and released on Sept. 6.
It was homecoming day Thursday for a sea lion that was found ailing and wandering the streets of Terminal Island earlier this summer.
Rocking his wheeled crate as it sat confined on the rocky shore of White Point/Royal Palms Beach, the some 250-pound sea lion wasted no time charging toward the breaking surf, barking all the way to the water’s edge before plunging in.
Within minutes, he was out into the...
Quick action and skill by Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) marine crew at the Port of Port Elizabeth assisted to ensure the successful safeguarding of a vessel that was about to be blown adrift from the quayside during gale force winds on Friday.
The vehicle carrier MV GLOVIS CHORUS was berthed at Berth 100 in the port when sudden gusts of between 25 to 40 knots (approximately 80 km/hr) occurred. The nearly 200 m long, 55 729 ton ship was blown metres off the quayside as a result of the...
Transnet National Ports Authority hosted a two-day stakeholder engagement roadshow in Mossel Bay to explore how the Port of Mossel Bay can better serve the Garden Route region. Various sessions on 21 and 22 August saw the TNPA leadership team engaging with customers, government representatives, business sector representatives, captains of industry and the media, to provide an update on strategic developments planned for South Africa’s smallest commercial port.
Chief Executive of TNPA, Shulami...
Container volumes at the Port of Long Beach were 1.9 percent lower in August compared to the same month the year before, according to the port’s latest figures.
Last month’s dip in volume can be attributed in part to the formation of new ocean-carrier alliances, in which carrier companies agree to certain conditions to stabilize the rates to ship goods.
Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero also attributed the decrease to tariffs between China and the U.S....
Women in the South African maritime sector were the focus of an inaugural career fair hosted by the South African International Maritime Institute (SAIMI), which attracted high school pupils, tertiary students, educators and women in in the maritime industry on Thursday (September 6).
Presented in conjunction with partner African Marine Solutions (AMSOL), the fair hosted about 120 students and pupils from Nelson Mandela Bay high schools, Nelson Mandela University, the University of Fort Hare and...
http://www.sashippingnews.com/2018/09/07/women-in-maritime-the-focus-of-east-cape-career-fair/
On the morning of 15th August 2018 Tall Ship “Dar Mlodzeizy” (Gift of the Youth) arrived in the Port of Cape Town, as part of her 1918 – 2018 Independence Sea Journey, with her 3015 square metres of sails filled with a northerly wind and her bow cutting gracefully through the Atlantic waves, carrying 40 crew and 136 cadets for a two day stopover in the Mother City.
Dar Mlodzeizy is a Tall Ship sail training vessel built in Gdansk Shipyards, launched in 1981, owned by Gdynia Maritime University...
http://www.sashippingnews.com/2018/08/17/tall-ship-dar-mdlodzeizy-graces-cape-town/
Hapag-Lloyd is continuing to focus on the growing market in East Africa. With annual growth rates of approximately six percent, the region tops the list on the African continent. Kenya, in particular, is developing with significantly rising import and export figures as well as massive investments in public infrastructure.
In April 2018 Hapag-Lloyd launched the East Africa Service (EAS), its first dedicated service to East Africa. The weekly service sails from Jeddah to Mombasa, and from there to...