Port of Mobile joins top 10
March 8, 2010According to numbers recently released by the Army Corps of Engineers Waterborne Statistics Center, the Alabama State Port Authority was the ninth largest port in the nation in terms of tonnage during 2008, when it handled 67.6 billion tons of freight. Previously, Mobile was ranked tenth.
Other U.S. Gulf ports in the top ten are Houston, […]
Nova Scotia Plans Wind Tower Facility
March 8, 2010By John D. Boyd
At a time when there is a huge oversupply of idled freight railcars and ocean ships, Canada’s Nova Scotia provincial government is drawing from those industries to aim at another that has growing demand — wind towers.
The province has struck a deal with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to take over a shuttered railcar factory […]
Farrell Lines adds two U.S.-flag ro-ro vessels
March 8, 2010Two U.S. flag roll-on, roll-off vessels, the Alliance Beaumont and the Alliance Charleston, have joined the Farrell Lines fleet. With these, the Alliance St. Louis and the Alliance Norfolk, both U.S.-flag vessels since February 2008, make up the Farrell Lines fleet.
The Alliance Beaumont became a U.S.-flag vessel on February 1 in Dubai and will participate […]
Copper prices soar after earthquake in Chile
March 6, 2010The price of copper had the largest intraday increase in 11 months in New York the week after after a magnitude-8.8 earthquake rocked southern Chile on Feb. 27, according to a news report from Bloomberg.
Copper for May delivery gained as much as 20.3 cents, or 6.2 percent, to $3.4870 a pound, before trading at $3.3860 […]
