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NY-NJ Container Gateway Readying To Keep Ahead Of Long Beach
Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 11:51am | 689This article brought to you courtesy of NEXT Trucking For the first time this year, the Port of New York and New Jersey has became the second largest container gateway to the U.S. And the port is making investments to ensure it will retain a top spot in maritime freight in the years to come. ...
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Port Report: Long Beach Moves Record Number Of Containers In September
Friday, October 18, 2019 - 4:15pm | 696In a reversal of a downward trend this year, the Port of Long Beach said that its terminals handled 706,956 TEU of containers in September, a slight 0.8% increase in volume over September 2018. It was the highest amount of container traffic handled in one September in the port's 108-year history....
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Port Of Long Beach Offers Incentives To Attract More Container Cargo
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - 1:27pm | 1345The Port of Long Beach is instituting an incentive program to attract more containerized cargo through its terminals, a year after the Port of Los Angeles launched a similar program. In a memorandum to its Board of Harbor Commissioners, the port's staff said the Los Angeles incentive program has "...
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Port Of Long Beach Will Study Automation's Impact On City
Thursday, August 22, 2019 - 9:24am | 1412The Long Beach City Council has directed the city's harbor department to conduct a study on the economic impact of port automation on the city. The council voted 8-0 to order the study at its Aug. 20 meeting. It's the latest in a series of studies and legislation proposals having to do with...
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Port Report: July Imports Flat At The Los Angeles-Long Beach Gateway
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 9:15am | 956The biggest U.S. maritime entry for containerized goods saw import volumes stay flat in July, reflecting the uncertainty facing the trans-Pacific container shipping market. One of the largest container shipping lines in the world has responded to the uncertainty by cutting service capacity by half...
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Does A New Study Suggest A Link Between Earthquakes And Hydraulic Fracturing?
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 11:08am | 343The short answer reveals that results are inconclusive. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning that a study published by the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters showed that small earthquakes that occurred in Texas could be caused by fracking activities in South Texas' Eagle Ford...