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This month, the Port of Everett and Westwood Shipping Lines marked the 10th anniversary of weekly, direct aerospace shipments from Japan with the arrival in Everett of a new and larger than normal container ship.

 

One of Port Tampa Bay’s largest customers, Tampa Tank, Inc./Florida Structural Steel, plans to expand its operation and in the process create 108 jobs, as well as additional import and export traffic for the port.

 

Jade Davis will be joining the Port of Cleveland as vice president of external affairs, effective September 10, 2015. Lindsay Pulsifer, general manager of marine maintenance for the Port of Seattle, has been named interim managing director of the port’s maritime division.

 

Some 70.3 million metric tons of cargo moved through Port Metro Vancouver during first half 2015. That was up 1.5 percent from a year ago, thanks to increases in wheat, sulfur and consumer goods traffic, according to data released by the port authority.

 

The Port of Vancouver USA and its partners on August 13 cut the ribbon on a $30 million rail entrance. The so called "trench" is a key element of the port’s $275 million West Vancouver Freight Access project, which eliminates conflicts arising from trains entering the port and triples the port’s rail capacity.

 

Port Logistics Tampa Bay I, Inc., plans to develop a 130,000 square foot state-of-the-art on-dock cold storage facility to handle refrigerated imports and exports, pursuant to lease agreement with Port Tampa Bay approved August 19 by the port authority’s board of commissioners.

 

The Port of Galveston has received a Logistics Management 2015 Quest for Quality Award in the ports category. 

 

The Coastal and Marine Operators group in partnership with Port Fourchon has completed the first step in rolling out a major initiative to protect the safety of mariners, the environment and hydrocarbon pipelines.

 

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