Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has awarded JAXPORT an additional USD35.3 million in funding for the Jacksonville Harbour Deepening project. The funding will be used toward exercising the second phase of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ contract B, which will deepen the project’s next 2.5 miles.

Port-related announcements of expansions and new business accounted for nearly USD5 billion in investment and 12,000 jobs across the state of Georgia in Fiscal Year 2019, a year in which the Port of Savannah moved a record 4.5 million TEUs.

New figures published recently by the ports industry reveal the hidden scale of the industry across the UK. As well as being key trading gateways – handling 95% of UK trade – ports are the foundation of the entire marine economy and are increasingly supporting other types of valuable economic activity, from leisure to fishing, offshore energy and marine aggregates. 

Volume at the Port of New York and New Jersey has soared – solidifying its position as North America’s second largest port and an essential hub in the movement of goods in and out of the United States.

The Port of Long Beach’s clean-air efforts have continued dramatic reductions in air pollution, including an 87% cut in diesel emissions, according to the latest comprehensive study.

In June of this year, Brownsville Navigation District of Cameron County ordered two Konecranes Gottwald Model 6 mobile harbour cranes to increase its dockside handling capacity in the Port of Brownsville, Texas, USA. 

In an interesting move in Europe, Cemex is using a marine aggregate dredger which it says will extract sand and gravel from the seabed. 

An Irish port has doubled the size of its customs facilities in preparation for the UK’s increasingly likely departure from the European Union (EU) with a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.

Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) is starting exploitation dredging works at Berdyansk seaport in the amount of 1.85 million cubic meters. As the USPA press service said, Dunay dredger to maintain the passport depths has already come to Berdiansk port.

More than 11 million tons of cargo passed through the state-owned public marine terminals of the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore in the past fiscal year, setting a new record as the port expands its regional economic impact. The second quarter of 2019, from April to June, also proved to be record setting, with the port handling 2,873,392 tons of cargo over those three months. That amount beat the previous quarterly high mark of 2,790,745 tons, set during the second quarter of 2018.

bayernhafen in Bamberg, Germany is one of the first companies in the world to use a Hyster reachstacker with elevating cabin to provide a better view of containers on the second rail. As a result, baymodal, the terminal operator, has significantly increased the efficiency of its container handling operation.

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has been awarded a contract to supply leading European rail operator Lineas Intermodal with two Kalmar Hybrid Straddle Carriers. The order was booked in Cargotec's 2019 Q3 order intake with delivery scheduled to be completed in Q1 2020.

The US port of Port Everglades is waiving its tariff charges for ocean shipping lines transporting humanitarian relief supplies to the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.

For the fourth consecutive month, the Port of Los Angeles has set a new single-month cargo record. In July, the port moved 912,154 TEUs, the busiest July in the port’s 112-year history. 

Through its company ICM+, the Longoni Port Community in Mayotte has consolidated its commitment to the Smart Port transition by switching from AP+ to Ci5 for goods flow management. This decision was confirmed on 18 July when Norbert Martinez, President of the Mayotte Maritime Union (UMM) and ICM+, visited Marseille, and strengthens the partnership between MGI and ICM+ which started in 2011. 

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is to supply DP World with a total of 15 Kalmar rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) for the Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT) in Mumbai, India. The order, which also includes 24 months of on-site maintenance support, was booked in Cargotec's 2019 Q2 order intake with delivery scheduled to be completed during Q4 2020.