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Port of Prince Rupert strives to increase transloading capacity

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The port authority at Prince Rupert is beginning construction on a large-scale logistics facility...

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Port-bound rail volumes approach prestrike levels in Canada

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Rail volumes have largely returned to normal at the Canadian West Coast ports of Vancouver and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-bound-rail-volumes-approach-prestrike-levels-in-canada

Congestion in Canada continues to impact rail and truck services

Danish container shipping company Maersk has published an update about the ongoing situation in Canada regarding significant congestion at terminals and inland ramps.

Maersk has noted that rail and truck sectors have been impacted.

Rail

According to Maersk’s customer advisory on 8 July, due to congestion in Toronto, Canadian National Railway (CN) is metering the number of Toronto-bound releases from Prince Rupert to ensure they do not gridlock its facilities. Regarding the operations of Canadian...

https://container-news.com/congestion-in-canada-continues-to-impact-rail-and-truck-services/

Terminal operator and port authority clash over expansion for Vancouver

Vancouver Fraser Port Authority (VFPA) plans for a fourth container terminal have been halted by a government request for more information.
As he considers the project’s impact, Canadian minister of environment and climate change Jonathan Wilkinson has called for further consultation with groups whose land is adjacent to the site.
The port authority is planning another terminal at Roberts Bank, close to the Deltaport facility, with an estimated price tag of C$3.5bn …

The post Terminal operator...

https://theloadstar.com/terminal-operator-and-port-authority-clash-over-expansion-for-vancouver/

2M restores transpacific capacity and pleads for return of empty containers

The 2M is the latest container shipping alliance to return more capacity to the transpacific trades.
2M partners Maersk and MSC said today they “continued to see strong demand and volumes with imports into the US”.
Maersk told customers today the TP8/Orient and TP11/Elephant services, which had been “structurally blanked in the second quarter”, had been reinstated and that the number of blanked sailings during China’s Golden Week holiday would be lower …

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DP World volumes decrease, portfolio increases

DP World reported Monday that 2020 first-half volumes were down 3.9% from the same period last year and that it had acquired a 60% stake in UNICO Logistics.

DP World Ltd. handled 33.9 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first half of 2020, with gross container volumes decreasing 5.3% year-over-year on a reported basis and 3.9% on a like-for-like basis.

DP World said like-for-like container totals adjust for volumes at Posorja,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dp-world-volumes-decrease-portfolio-increases

CN benefits from British Columbia’s growing propane exports

A photograph of a train on a bridge that's crossing a lake.

Three vessels carrying Canadian propane destined for international markets departed from AltaGas’ Ridley Island Propane Export Terminal on Thursday, beating a previous record by 50%, according to CN (NYSE: CNI). CN exclusively serves the facilities at the Port of Prince Rupert, which is where the AltaGas Ridley Terminal is located. 

The terminal has moved over 1 million metric tonnes of propane since it launched in May 2019. The increase in propane export volumes comes amid ongoing capacity...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/cn-benefits-from-british-columbias-growing-propane-exports

Port of Los Angeles in an uphill struggle to regain traffic lost to the east coast

The US port of Los Angeles is looking to technology and increased collaboration to stem the erosion of its container traffic – it ended 2019 with a throughput of 9.33m teu, a decline of 1.28% on the previous year.
Neighbouring Long Beach also registered a drop in container traffic last year, down 5.7% from its 2018 teu count.
Other North American ports vying for container traffic to and from Asia have fared …

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