Sentences with phrase «container port in»

Oakland's cargo volume makes it the fifth busiest container port in the United States.

The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the world's largest shipping ports.

Felixstowe not only the home of SCUK, it is also the largest container port in the UK.

Combined, the side - by - side facilities are the sixth busiest container port in the world and the busiest in the United States.

CONAKRY, April 24 - Bollore Group's concession to build a container port in Guinea's capital Conakry was in strict compliance with the law, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, reacting to news of a probe by French authorities into the group's Africa operations.

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Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure, finding 8,740 kilos of the drug hidden among 1,080 boxes of bananas in a shipping container at the southern port of Algeciras.

«Many comments reflected the negative impact of the Asian holiday period, concerns about tariffs and difficulties in moving containers from ports to using locations,» Timothy Fiore, Chair of the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, said in the press release for the survey.

The competition watchdog has further delayed its decision on the $ 9 billion takeover of rail and ports giant Asciano, after receiving complaints that the deal would reduce competition in the container logistics business.

Groupe Bollore's Bollore Africa Logistics has for years been a corporate powerhouse in former French colonies across West Africa as well as some Anglophone states, holding 16 container port concessions, rail concessions and employing 25,000 people.

Fremantle Port has maintained national recognition as a leader in container handling rates.Since December 2000, the port has outperformed national rivals Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Retailers have been forced to pay fees to trucking companies to compensate for the increased time and trouble, while shipping companies have been diverting container ships carrying Northeast - bound cargo to ports in Baltimore, Montreal and elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

These mega-projects are fraught with challenges ranging from new engineering demands to public opposition.But to look at any one pipeline or container - port controversy in isolation is to miss the big picture of inexorable change in the world economy and Canada's place within it.

Hundreds of containers shipped from the U.S. or the Gulf were left stranded in the Pakistani port of Karachi until mid-2012.

We are connected to the world by the fastest - growing port and second busiest container exporter in the United States (Savannah), three major interstates which enable you to reach 80 % of the U.S. market in two hours by plane and two days by truck, and Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's most traveled airport with over 103 million passengers served in 2017.

On February 20, Madeleine Paquin, chief executive of Logistec Corp., a handler of bulk goods and containers at 30 ports in eastern North America, used a speech at the same venue to nudge her fellow executives to invest in local start - ups, as Logistec has.

The improvements will result in doubling container capacity at the port, provide increased breakbulk cargo capacity, and bring a substantial increase in automobile - handling capacity.

Johnson has a combined 20 years of experience in container shipping (Maersk), port investments (Hutchison), and sell - side equity research coverage (JP Morgan, Jeffries) of the shipping industry.

«Every container has its own story and so many things can go wrong on the ground or in the water — like weather or local strikes at the port — to create delays.

Today, we are going to expand the port to be able to take four times the volume that it currently takes and we are creating four new berths of 16 metres deep that can take the largest container vessels because Ghana's import volumes have risen and if you project the rate of growth of the country, there will be no space in Tema Port to be able to take anything in a few years.

In the days since Hurricane Maria hit, thousands of containers of goods have piled up in Puerto Rico's portIn the days since Hurricane Maria hit, thousands of containers of goods have piled up in Puerto Rico's portin Puerto Rico's ports.

Included in central New York's upstate revitalization plan is $ 40 million to develop an inland port that will process international freight containers coming from the Port of New York and New Jersey.

An under pressure Mr. Agampim confirmed to this paper that three 40 - footer container of chicken products, were cleared from the port with some sent all the way to Techiman in the Brong Ahafo Region, and mentioned the owners of the consignments as White Stones Frozen Foods Limited, the Ghana Ports and Habours Authority (GHPHA) board member.

A container terminal in New York Harbor is preparing to accept reservations for trucks to pick up or drop off cargo, in an effort to reduce congestion in the East Coast's busiest port complex.

The state's plan calls for expanding the CSX rail yard in the town of DeWitt to handle 30,000 containers a year via rail between central New York and ports in the New York - New Jersey region.

He estimated that the entire device, when built, could be transported by truck through city streets or past shipping containers in ports.

In September 2006, agents descended on two ports in Rio de Janeiro state and seized 1.65 metric tons of endangered flowers packed inside a shipping containeIn September 2006, agents descended on two ports in Rio de Janeiro state and seized 1.65 metric tons of endangered flowers packed inside a shipping containein Rio de Janeiro state and seized 1.65 metric tons of endangered flowers packed inside a shipping container.

The initiative now scans for gamma rays and neutrons and performs X-rays of the contents of high - risk cargo in 44 foreign ports, which collectively handle 77 percent of the containers entering the United States.

An American who buys golf clubs abroad and doesn't want to declare them can send them via a company that packs them in a shipping container, which then slips them into port without ever being seen by customs agents; the ability of drug dealers to bypass even the most elaborate border controls is a well - known problem.

The invention could plug a gaping hole in American security: the unexamined 6 million ship containers that enter U.S. ports every year.

In the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, containers are lifted off ships by robotic cranes and slotted into the right stacks with the help of automated trolleyIn the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, containers are lifted off ships by robotic cranes and slotted into the right stacks with the help of automated trolleyin the Netherlands, containers are lifted off ships by robotic cranes and slotted into the right stacks with the help of automated trolleys.

Today, more than 90 % of goods are carried over the ocean, and the Chinese port of Shanghai alone saw 36 million containers pass through in 2015.

For his first experiments testing the gas on mice, he needed a glass container that sealed and to which he could attach ports to pump air in and out.

Twelve year old Caitlin lives alone with her mother - a docker at the local container port - in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle.

The city is home to the third largest port in the U.S., in terms of container handling, and is a major trade gateway.

The locations with the highest rate of loot drops include The Villa and the port of Novorepnoye in the south; the Georgopol hospital and containers in the north; the central Rozhok school and the Military Island.

Milstein says: «I was interested in documenting the patterns, layering, and complexity of cities, highlighting airports, container ports, recreational facilities, and residential and commercial developments, all of which grow organically over time and are connected by roads and arterial highways like a living organism.

In the early 2000s, the city of Oslo began to redevelop the sagging industrial port of Bjørvika, replacing its rusted containers and ships with office buildings, schools, and blockbuster museums.

Now fake shipping containers have come to North America; On the way to a meeting in Vancouver's Strathcona district up near the container port, I was shocked to see what I thought was the biggest container housing project ever, except it's not; it's a building designed to look like a big stack of containers.

Reuters reports that a Giant African Snail was recently found - and destroyed - in a shipping container at the port of Brisbane.

Last June, the Brazilian authorities discovered 91 shipping containers full of trash in the nation's ports, all exported from Britain.

A.P. Møller - Mærsk is an integrated transport and logistics company with multiple brands and is a global leader in container shipping and ports.

The police would not notice either, because the only time the police cares about copyright is when somebody makes a complaint (nobody would make a complaint about you), except when they seize containers full of copyright infringing stuff (that is destined to be illegally sold for profit) in a port or at a border somewhere.

Exploding shipping containers have popped up — literally — in western Washington's ports.

Craig is particularly well known for his expertise in container shipping, multimodal transport, ports and terminals and project shipments.

Stemming from his role at DHS, Stewart has a deep background in the international implications of US security policy — from the disputes over US collection of data from international businesses to the US statutory command that all containers being shipped to the US be scanned before leaving foreign ports.

The port reached a comprehensive settlement agreement in March 2011 with the Tsimshian First Nation in Prince Rupert with respect to the port's existing Fairview Container Terminal for a project that will quadruple the size of the terminal to 2 million 20 - foot equivalent units (containers).

The city is home to the third largest port in the U.S., in terms of container handling, and is a major trade gateway.

A truck transports a shipping container at the cargo terminal port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, Friday, April 6, 2018.

29, 2018 photo, container ships is docked at the Yangshan port in Shanghai.

Among the more encouraging signs is a major boost in trade, with the combined ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach showing a 13 % increase in container traffic for the fiscal year ended June 30 and a 19 % increase from January through June.