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10 Dec

Port of Grays Harbor Nets Grant for Marina Project

Karen Robes MeeksNews, PMM Online News, Terminal Operations

The Port of Grays Harbor has received a $50,000 grant from the Washington State Community Economic Revitalization Board for the Westport Marina Modernization Project Plan, which aims to replace the marina’s float infrastructure and help support the state’s major commercial seafood landing port in the coming years. The money, which the port plans to augment with an additional $30,000, is expected to fund the plan’s efforts for improving the marina with an updated float design, layout and configuration plan, consolidating and refurbishing assets and other related work. The marina is a longtime base for tribal, commercial, charter and recreational fishing…

10 Dec

Port of Los Angeles Seeks RFPs for Demos of Zero-Emissions Trucks

Karen Robes MeeksNews, PMM Online News, Terminal Operations

Trucking firms and manufacturers are invited to team up on the Port of Los Angeles’ latest Request For Proposals for zero-emissions drayage trucks to demonstrate at the port. Applicants have until 3 p.m. Jan. 4 to submit proposals to the port, which is looking to fund as much as $300,000 per truck toward the investment of 10 zero-emissions trucks and infrastructure related to the demo. A total of $3 million in grant funding is available. Each team must feature at least one licensed motor carrier that is in good standing and part of the port’s drayage truck registry, and one…

07 Dec

Austal USA To Assume Lease of Marine Group Boat Works at Port of San Diego

Karen Robes MeeksNews, News Briefs, PMM Online News, Terminal Operations

Alabama-based shipbuilder Austal USA is poised to take over the lease of Marine Group Boat Works at the Port of San Diego, a move that would allow the company to concentrate on repairing vessels for the U.S. Navy, Military Sealift Command and Coast Guard. Port commissioners recently approved the lease, which encompasses a 15-acre site near the U.S. Naval Base San Diego with a new dry dock “designed specifically to handle small surface combatants and other small to medium size ships,” according to the company. “Austal USA’s presence is growing across the United States, and this latest expansion of facilities…

01 May

Vigor Delivers Newbuild Pilot Boats to Port of LA

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By Karen Robes Meeks After a two-year design and build process with Vigor Industrial and a 1,000-mile trek from Vancouver, Washington, the Los Angeles Pilot Service’s newest boats have made their way to San Pedro Bay and are now in service at the nation’s busiest seaport. Seeing the Angels Pilot and the Angels Navigator in action at the Port of Los Angeles marks a big moment for the pilot service. “We are very happy we were able to work with the port in procuring these boats,” said Chief Port Pilot Captain David Flinn, who oversees the Los Angeles Pilot Service…

01 May

Port of Long Beach Debuts Upgraded Fireboat Station

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More than a decade after an independent study found that fire safety facilities and equipment at the Port of Long Beach were in urgent need of modernization, a gleaming new fire station has opened at the port. Fire Station No. 15, a 20,000-square foot facility with an 11,200-square foot covered boat bay, is now operational. “This moment has been a long time coming,” Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero said. “It’s an important milestone for the safety of the Long Beach community and this critical national economic engine.” Station 15, located on Pier F between Middle Harbor and…

01 Jun

Yamal LNG Ships 30 Million Tons of LNG

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Novatek’s Yamal LNG project in the Russian Arctic has now shipped more than 30 million tons of product, with the Arc7 ice-class tanker Nikolay Yevgenov loading the 411th cargo to mark the milestone earlier this year. In 2019, the project’s first full-year of simultaneous operation of all three liquefaction trains, 18.4 million tons of LNG were produced which exceeded the plant’s annual design capacity by 11 percent or 1.9 million tons. The first LNG Train at Yamal began production in the final quarter of 2017 while Trains 2 and 3 came on line in July 2018 and November 2018 respectively.…

01 Jun

New Oil Dock for Corpus Christi

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The newly commissioned Oil Dock 14 at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas received its first vessel in mid-April after completion of construction by the port authority and terminal operator Pin Oak Corpus Christi (Pin Oak Terminals). The new dock can accommodate fully laden bulk liquid tankers up to Suezmax class with loading rates in excess of 40,000 barrels per hour. Pin Oak Terminals is a joint venture between Dauphine Midstream LLC and the Mercuria Energy Group Ltd.

01 Jun

Port of Virginia Closes Terminal

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The Port of Virginia has become one of the first major domestic ports to close one of its terminals because of COVID-19 when its Portsmouth Marine Terminal was shuttered in early May and cargo moved to other port facilities. The Portsmouth terminal encompasses 287 acres and has 3,540 feet of wharf served by 6 Super Post-Panamax cranes and a container handling capacity of 437,500 TEUs per year.

01 Jun

Wilmington Completes Turning Basin Expansion

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The North Carolina State Ports Authority (NCSPA) has completed the second phase of its turning basin expansion project at the Port of Wilmington to allow the movement of ships of up to 1,200 feet in length. The multi-million dollar project widened the Cape Fear River turning basin from 1,400 feet to 1,524 feet, with the additional 124 feet allowing container ships of up to 14,000-TEU capacity to be safely turned. Completion of the project follows the opening of 2,600 feet of berthing space at the port that allows two mega container ships to be handled simultaneously and expands the port’s…

01 May

Fuel-Cell Ferry Moved to AAM Yard

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Wilton, Connecticut-based SW/TCH Maritime has switched fabrication of the hydrogen fuel-cell powered ferry Water-Go-Round from the Bay Ship & Yacht yard at Alameda, California to the All American Marine (AAM) yard at Bellingham, Washington following a number of construction delays, with the uncompleted 70-foot aluminum vessel moved between the two facilities by barge. SW/TCH, which is funding completion of the vessel with private capital after the California Air Resources Board invested $3 million to help launche the project, has not announced an entry-to-service date for the experimental craft yet.