Terminal Operations – Page 24 – Pacific Maritime Magazine

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.

01 May

Knutsen Orders LNG-Burning Hybrid Shuttle Tankers

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Haugesund, Norway-based Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers has ordered two 124,000-dwt shuttle tankers from South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering at a cost of $141 million per vessel for delivery in June and September of 2022. The twin ships, which will be able to burn LNG and are to be fitted with battery banks for hybrid operation, will be chartered to Italian energy major ENI for a period of 10 years.

01 May

Grant to Aid Expansion at Duluth

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The US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has allocated a $10.5 million grant to the Duluth Seaway Port Authority to help fund construction of a 56,000-square-foot warehouse at the Clure Public Marine Terminal and to rehabilitate a section of the terminal’s dock wall. The new warehouse will complement an existing 430,000 square foot warehousing area while the dock wall rehabilitation will fortify 7 acres of laydown space for heavy-lift and project cargoes, including wind energy components. Last year cargo volume at the Great Lakes port exceeded 33.5 million short tons, the third highest throughput since 2015.

01 May

New Port Area at Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Taiwan’s largest land reclamation undertaking in a commercial seaport has been completed after nine years of work with the $3.75 billion project adding over 422 hectares of new land to the Port of Kaohsiung. The additional area will enable the construction of several new deep-water berths for large container vessels and bulk carriers as well as the building of a new logistics center. Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corporation has signed a long-term contract to lease the planned container berths while bulk carrier operators are expected to relocate their operations to the new site from Kaohsiung’s old Zhongdao Wharf area to allow…

01 May

Delaware River Ports Gain Depth

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A 12-year, $392 million project to deepen the Delaware River to allow larger ships to call at the Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Port of Wilmington, Delaware is scheduled to be completed shortly by Oak Brook, Illinois-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock. The project, which began in 2008, has increased the depth of the 103-mile main shipping channel between Philadelphia and the Atlantic Ocean from 40 to 45 feet. In anticipation of completion of the project the Port of Philadelphia acquired a second set of super post-Panamax container cranes last year that have been installed at its Packer Avenue Marine…