Brazil’s state-controlled oil and gas giant Petrobras has confirmed that Rodolfo Landim currently president of a football club with the highest market value in Brazil, Flamengo will most likely become its new chairman. He should take over from Admiral Eduardo Bacellar Leal Ferreira and be named new...
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The Port of Long Beach (POLB) last week unveiled its Supply Chain Information Highway digital initiative, a free-to-all service that delivers data for shippers and other stakeholders to integrate into their own systems to track cargo and allot resources. The Port of Oakland and The Northwest...
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Commissioners from the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) laid out to senators in Washington DC yesterday why they believe their regulatory body needs greater powers and funding to help tackle the supply chain crisis that has racked the US during the pandemic. FMC chairman Daniel Maffei (pictured)...
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Alison Cusack, principal lawyer at Melbourne-based Cusack & Co, on the ramifications Down Under of Joe Biden’s decision to target global liners. Containerlines have been forming alliances for decades. The argument has always been in the name of efficiency of scarce resources to provide a measure of...
The US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced this week the availability of $25m in funding for the America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP), which supports the increased use of US navigable waterways to relieve landside congestion, provide new and efficient...
https://splash247.com/new-funding-made-available-for-americas-marine-highway-program/
The city-owned South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) in New York City is to be transformed into an offshore wind port facility, serving as a hub to support the Empire Wind and Beacon Wind projects being developed by partners Equinor and BP. As part of the deal finalised by the New York City...
Louisiana-based Modern American Recycling Services (MARS) has bolstered its offshore decommissioning and subsea installation portfolio with the acquisition of the 2012-built diving support construction vessel (DSCV) Captain America, formerly known as . The vessel will be owned by MARS and operated...
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In his state of the union speech on March 1, US President Biden accused global ocean carriers of anti-competitive behaviour. He said: “When corporations don’t have to compete, their profits go up, your prices go up, and small businesses and family farmers and ranchers go under. We see it happening...
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Industry leaders representing 49 associations sent a letter to the White House on March 1, imploring “early and persistent engagement in the impending contract negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).” They note that,...
More than 100 executives from the US marine industry sent a letter to US Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, US Republican Representative Garret Graves and US Democratic Representative John Garamendi endorsing and thanking the trio for introducing the American Offshore Worker Fairness Act (AOWFA). The...