The Northwest Seaport Alliance’s 2019 container volumes through October reached 3,219,673 TEUs, a 2.9% increase from the same period last year.

The federal government has awarded the Jacksonville Port Authority (JAXPORT) a USD20 million grant for the reconstruction of more than 100 acres of existing terminal pavement at the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal.

Navis, a part of Cargotec, announced that MACS3 loading computer will be installed on two newbuilding series of container vessels owned and operated by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corporation.

In the third quarter of this year, Northport Limited ordered an eco-efficient Konecranes Gottwald Model 6 Mobile Harbour Crane for their deep-water facility at Marsden Point, on the north island of New Zealand.

National Ports Authority (TNPA)’s Dredging Services division has embarked on another maintenance dredging campaign at the Port of Cape Town to ensure the port provides safe navigational channels and berthing facilities for shipping. 

The Georgia Ports Authority moved 428,400 TEUs in October, an increase of 14,600 TEUs or 3.5 percent. The strong month gave the Port of Savannah a fiscal year-to-date total of 1.6 million TEUs, up 90,600, or 6 percent. 

Trelleborg’s marine and infrastructure operation has supplied its latest navigation and piloting solution to PrimePort Timaru in New Zealand, as part of an upgrade in order to increase capacity at the port and facilitate the accommodation of larger vessels.

South Carolina Ports Authority has seen strong volumes in the first four months of fiscal year 2020 with growth in both containerised and vehicle cargo. 

The structure and technics at Kiel’s shunting station in Meimersdorf have been enhanced in such a way that freight trains with an effective length of 740 m (535 m before) can enter and exit the station as of now.

Although tariffs continued to impact cargo volumes, the Port of Long Beach had the second-busiest October in its 108-year history.