News Briefs – Page 36 – Pacific Maritime Magazine

27 Dec

Port of LA Awards $6 Million Toward Zero-Emissions Trucking

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Two Los Angeles area trucking firms have each received $3 million from the Port of Los Angeles to hasten the move to zero-emission drayage trucks, the port announced Dec. 20. To be eligible for the incentive, MLI Leasing in Gardena and Performance Team in El Segundo are each working with an equipment manufacturer. MLI, with Peterbilt, plans to spend more than $3.4 million to make and put out 12 ZE trucks. Performance Team, with Volvo, is spending over $5.6 million to produce and deploy 10 ZE trucks, according to the port. The port’s grants are expected to offset the cost…

27 Dec

Imports Down in October at Most U.S. West Coast Seaports: PMSA

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Despite positive cargo numbers at the Oakland, San Diego and Hueneme seaports, imports at U.S. West Coast seaports in October fell 22.7% year-over-year, and by 15% at the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, according to the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association’s latest West Coast Report, released Dec. 21. “October was pretty much a dreadful month for container import traffic through Pacific Coast ports,” according to the report. For the third straight month, the Port of New York and New Jersey bested Los Angeles, the port’s biggest West Coast seaport, in imports, exports and empties and overall…

27 Dec

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star Heads to Antarctica

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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star is on its way to Antarctica to support Operation Deep Freeze 2023, its 26th voyage to the continent. Operation Deep Freeze is a joint mission to replenish the U.S. Antarctic stations of the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Antarctic Program’s lead agency. The crew, which left its homeport in Seattle on Nov. 16, made a four-day stop at Hobart, Australia, before leaving Dec. 21 across the Southern Ocean. In Hobart, crew members hosted guests from the Australian Antarctic Division, Australian Border Force, Tasmanian government officials and others, USCG said. “The reception was a…

20 Dec

Port of Hueneme Awarded Shoreside Power Development Funding

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The Port of Hueneme has received $10.4 million from the Ventura County Transportation Commission for its North Terminal Shore Power Project, the port announced Dec. 5. The seaport, located about 58 miles north of Los Angeles, also netted money from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust to enact innovative technologies that would advance electrification, trace air quality progress and lower particulate matter, the port added. The commission approved the funding at its Dec. 2 meeting. The project, which is to be constructed under a project labor agreement, calls for car-carrying vessels to link up to shoreside…

20 Dec

Coast Guard Station Honolulu Partners on Search-Rescue Training Course

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Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Station Honolulu teamed up with the Hawaii Department of Transportation Airport Division Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Unit for five days of training with the National Association of Boat Law Administrators’ Boat Operator for Search and Rescue course, the agency revealed Dec. 14. Developed to standardize the training, qualification, credentialing and typing process for maritime first responders, the course centered around “on-the-water risk management, team coordination, navigation, search patterns, rescue and towing,” according to the Coast Guard. This helps strengthen the working relationship between the USCG and the firefighting unit, the first responding agencies in…

20 Dec

Survey: San Francisco Bay Ferry Riders Satisfied with Service

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San Francisco Bay Ferry scored high among riders, achieving a 99% rating in rider satisfaction for service, according to data released Dec. 8 by the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA). The 2022 passenger survey, performed in July and August 2022 by CDM Smith, included feedback from “a statistically valid sample of 963 San Francisco Bay Ferry passengers to help identify changes in rider demographics and sentiments in the wake of major fare cuts and service increases as a part of WETA’s Pandemic Recovery Program, instituted in July 2021.” The survey says that rider satisfaction has been…

20 Dec

Fishing Boat Fuel Spill Cleanup Underway on Santa Cruz Island

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Crews are working to contain and clean up diesel fuel spilling out of a 60-foot fishing boat that ran aground on Santa Cruz Island on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. At about 2 a.m., members of Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach watchstanders were alerted to a report from Vessel Assist Ventura about f/v Speranza Marie, which ran aground in Chinese Harbor on Santa Cruz Island. The boat was carrying six people and about 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, according to the Guard. A unified command was created by the Coast Guard, California Department of Fish and…

16 Dec

November Cargo Volumes Down at Port of Long Beach

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Cargo volumes at the Port of Long Beach dropped 21% last month year over year, according to new data released Dec. 14 by the Southern California seaport. Long Beach moved 588,742 TEUs overall in November, with imports falling 28.4% to 259,442 TEUs and empty containers tumbling 25.2% to 204,313 TEUs when compared to the same time last year. However, exports surged 13.8% to 124,988 TEUs. Long Beach moved almost 1.3 million TEUs through the first 11 months of this year and 1.44 million TEUs of loaded exports in 2021. Fewer orders from retailers, warehouses at capacity, vessel transfers between the…

16 Dec

Port of Grays Harbor Approves Invenergy Lease Option

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The Port of Grays Harbor on Dec. 14 announced that its commissioners have agreed to an Option to Lease contract with private sustainable energy solutions firm Invenergy for acreage and a warehouse in Satsop West Park. The option allows Invenergy to evaluate the area as a possible site for a new facility that could generate as much as 45 tons a day of carbon-free green hydrogen using electrolysis. If the project advances, the facility could be in service as early as 2026, according to the port. “We are extremely excited that Satsop’s infrastructure could play a role in Grays Harbor’s…

16 Dec

Canada’s GCT Enters Assets Sale Agreement with CMA CGM

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Vancouver, British Columbia-based GCT Global Container Terminals Inc. has agreed to sell its U.S.-based terminal assets to container transport company CMA CGM Group, GCT announced Dec. 6. The sale, which is subject to the necessary approval processes, would allow the French shipping company to acquire GCT New York on Staten Island and GCT Bayonne in the Port of New York and New Jersey. This move strengthens CMA CGM Group’s footprint in the U.S., which includes the January acquisition of Fenix Marine Services terminal at the Port of Los Angeles, and complements the company’s “portfolio of five terminal assets” in the…