JAXPORT’s FTZ continues to grow during COVID-19. The Jacksonville Port Authority’s (JAXPORT’s) Foreign Trade Zone No. 64, Florida’s largest FTZ by area, continues to grow as businesses adjust to supply chain changes during COVID-19. The FTZ’s expansion is due in large part to fast application turnaround times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Port of Jacksonville and the FTZ Board in Washington, D.C. ...

Questions And Answers Computer Keys Showing Support Knowledge And Wiki Port Call Digitalization – What it Is, How it Helps You and Why it Provides Financial BenefitsWednesday, June 3 | 2:00 p.m. EDT Join ION’s Graham Howe, business development director, operations optimization, to learn how port call digitalization can give you a business advantage in today’s competitive port sector. Attendees will be updated ...

With many port communications personnel working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, AAPA extended the 2020 Communications Awards Program entry deadline to Monday, June 15, and the new deadline is approaching fast. On the Communications Awards Program landing page, you can view the competition’s highlights, find links to winning entries from previous years for review and download, and navigate to the online entry materials ...

AAPA and a large segment of its hemispheric membership will commemorate National Maritime Day during the work week of May 18-22. To mark the occasion – which annually recognizes the mariners, the maritime industry, ports and their workforces – vessels in harbors and at berth throughout the hemisphere are being encouraged to sound their horns or whistles four times at noon each day from May ...

Liebherr Container Cranes, AAPA Industry Solution Provider (ISP) member, announced a contract for the supply of one ship-to-shore (STS) container crane and one rail mounted gantry (RMG) crane to terminal operator Termont at the Port of Montreal. The new Liebherr equipment will help the terminal increase its capacity to 600,000 TEUs and help maximize container handling potential. The new cranes will join ...

Change – even when you know it’s coming – is never an easy thing.

A sprawling vessel service begins this week with 18 megaships linking the Port of Oakland to Asia, including Saudi Arabia.  A highlight of the new service: the first-ever direct link between Oakland and the Middle East. The port said that Japan’s ONE line would operate the new weekly service called the Far East-Pacific 2. The first ship in the service, the ONE Aquila, should ...

Join AAPA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday, May 13 at 3:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. PT) for a webinar on the EPA’s Ports Initiative and its recently released Port Emissions Inventory Methods. Hear from Sarah Froman, EPA Ports Initiative team lead, Daniel Bizer-Cox, lead on the recent update to EPA’s Port Emissions Inventory Methods, and Dale Asby, EPA Region IV, and participate in ...

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Back in 2011, LED lighting was seeing some of its first installments on ship-to-shore cranes. In the nine years since, the lighting industry has progressed significantly, and LED lighting has fundamentally changed the way we illuminate terminals.