NEWS\\\


Lufthansa Cargo is expanding its digital sales channels with dynamic


spot prices that


can be booked immediately. These are now automatically generated in real time via the Rapid Rate Response (RRR) mechanism and are displayed as directly bookable offers. “With automated spot


prices, we can make our customers


offers. We are


speeding up and simplifying our booking process considerably and further expanding our digital


sales


channels. This complements our existing personal and


digital services,” said


Dorothea von Boxberg, Chief Commercial Officer at Lufthansa Cargo. Lufthansa Cargo uses Rapid


Rate Response on all of its own booking channels. Starting in December 2019, the system will generate spot price offers for all customers based in the following pilot markets: Thailand, Vietnam, North and Northeast India, Beijing, Middle


East, Iran, Turkey,


Port of Corpus Christi Closes 2019 with


Record Tonnage


The Port of Corpus Christi ended 2019 with record tonnages for December of 13.8 million metric cargo tons and 122.2 million metric cargo tons for the entire year — a 16-million- ton improvement


over 2018


tonnages. The significant growth is attributed to increases in energy exports of crude oil and liquefied natural gas. Growth in crude exports is


primarily the result of two new crude pipelines from the largest energy producing fields in the United States, the Permian Basin. The Plains All-American Cactus II and EPIC pipelines were brought


online in Q3-2019 and helped clinch a record fourth quarter of 37.5 million metric tons, a 17% increase over the previous record set in the third quarter of 2019. Year over year gains in crude production led to an impressive 26.8% jump in crude exports from the Port of Corpus Christi. Liquefied natural gas or


exports, LNG, of increased


6.6 million tons overall (the equivalent


316.8 billion


cubic feet) in 2019 as a result of Cheniere Energy subsidiary Corpus Christi Liquefaction increasing production with the


USA (California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska), Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Cologne and Stuttgart. Lufthansa Cargo will gradually extend the system and deploy it worldwide by the end of 2020. Rapid Rate Response is to


connected online


the sales existing channels and is also available to the sales


commissioning of its first train in November 2018 and its second train in late 2019. “These record-setting figures


are not only indicative of a resilient energy export market, but are also reflective of the large infrastructure investments made by both private industry and the Port Authority as we position the Port of Corpus Christi as the Energy Port of the Americas ™,” said Sean Strawbridge, CEO for the Port of Corpus Christi. Additional milestones in 2019


included the commencement of the long-awaited Corpus Christi Ship


Channel Improvement


Project, a near fully funded federal project to deepen the main channel to 54 feet mean lower low water, and widen the Channel to 530 feet plus 200 feet of barge shelves. The port also received the largest Liebherr ship-


employees for personal or telephone support. In addition to the option of booking on the company’s own eBooking channel, Lufthansa Cargo will in future also offer air freight forwarders the option of directly connecting their own systems via an application programming


interface


(API). Perspectively, external sales platforms will also be successively connected. Cargo.one is the first platform with which Lufthansa Cargo has already gone live.


to-shore portal crane in North America in December 2019, saw the substantial completion of a new cement import facility designed for nearly 1


million


tons per annum, and signed the largest marine terminal lease agreement in its 94-year history for a new crude export terminal designed to handle the Very Large Crude Carriers on Harbor Island in Port Aransas. “We moved more


than


120 million tons in 2019. The figure alone is impressive, but what is more remarkable is the exponential growth we are seeing year over year and sometimes even month over month. I think we can say with great confidence that we truly are Moving America’s Energy ™,” said Charles W. Zahn, Jr., Port of Corpus Christi Commission Chairman.


Issue 1 2020 - FBJNA News Roundup


The Port of Virginia® set a new annual record for container cargo volume having handled more than 2.93 million TEUs, in calendar year 2019, a 3% increase over last year’s total. The port saw increases in the movement of loaded imports, up 3%; empty export TEUs, up 10%; growth in barge volume, up more than 18%; and the amount of cargo moving over Richmond Marine Terminal, up 19.5%. Truck volumes were up 2% and rail volume was static. South Carolina Ports Authority had its best calendar year in its history, handling 2.44 million TEUs in 2019, a 5% increase year-over- year.


Sea


During the December meeting of the JAXPORT Board of Directors, the Board unanimously voted to extend CEO Eric Green’s contract through fiscal year 2024. The new five-year contract is effective Oct. 1, 2019. Green has been with JAXPORT since 2005 and was named CEO in 2017. Under Green’s leadership, the port set new container, auto and overall cargo volume records.


As Port Everglades’ 5th largest trading partner, Colombia’s largest port along the Caribbean Sea, the Port of Barranquilla, has agreed to enter into an MOU to promote bilateral trade. Port Everglades’ trade with Colombia has increased by 29% over the last four years. Port Everglades also signed a MOU with the Dominican Republican Port Authority as part of a joint Sister Seaports agreement.


As Port Everglades’ largest trading partner in 2018, the Dominican Republic Port Authority has agreed to enter into an MOU to promote bilateral trade. Trade between Port Everglades and the Dominican Republic increased by 6.11% in 2018, according to World City’s 2019 Port Everglades Trade Numbers publication. Five years ago, the Dominican Republic ranked as the 5th largest trading partner for Port Everglades, but it has since held the number one position for four straight years.


The Laurentia Project at the Port of Quebec, one of the most significant port expansions on the east coast, is in the planning stages. The project is a strategic game changer that will set a new standard of intermodal logistics. By creating a new North American deep- water gateway, Laurentia will greatly enhance the competitiveness of the Saint Lawrence River and the Great Lakes corridor. The capital investment plan includes a deal with Hutchison Ports and CN Rail to develop a new $775 million deep water container terminal, Laurentia.


The Port of Hamburg saw seaborne cargo handling in the first nine months of 2019 increase 3.2% to 104 million tons, exceeding those figures from major competing ports in Northern Europe where increases averaged around 1%. The port handled 7 million TEUs, up 6.9%, compared to the 0.7% points in competition with other major container ports, whose growth averaged 3.4%. Rail particularly boosted seaport-hinterland services. Transporting 2.1 million TEU in the first nine months, these attained 11.9% growth.


The Port of Brownsville is one step closer to welcoming three new LNG projects with an investment totaling $38.75 billion aſter the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)


approved their


proposals today during its monthly commission meeting in November. “These new energy projects


reflect our long-term strategy and vision for the port to be a catalyst for economic growth in


the Rio


by encouraging domestic and


investments


international and


business driving


developments that create new good paying job opportunities for the region,” said John Reed, Chairman of the Brownsville Navigation District. Texas LNG Brownsville LLC, LNG


Annova Brownsville, Grande Valley


Rio Grande LNG LLC, and Rio Bravo Pipeline Company LLC represent a total investment of $38.75 billion in Cameron County and the Rio Grande


Valley and will add thousands of job opportunities leading to significant economic progress in the region. “The fact that the Port of


Brownsville was sought out and chosen for these three LNG projects is a testament to our strategic location and Brownsville’s important role in both the energy industry and international trade,” said Eduardo A. Campirano, Port Director and CEO. “FERC’s confidence in these projects,


demonstrated federal by today’s


approval is very important. The


commission’s


evaluation process ensures that the plants must operate within the design parameters for safety and environmental protection.” The next step in the process


are final investment decisions (FID) to be made by the applicants, which would be as early as the first quarter of next year. Once FIDs are announced


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Port Manatee’s facility security officer training program – the only such approved course offered by a U.S. seaport – has earned new certification from the U.S. Coast Guard.


Welding Works International, Inc. has been named the Port of Brownsville 2019 Chairman’s Award honoree in recognition of the company’s 20-plus years of setting a high standard in safety training and providing ongoing contributions to the well-being of the Rio Grande Valley community.


For the first time in its 92-year history, a woman has been named Port Attorney at the Port of Oakland. The Port’s governing Board last night appointed Michele Heffes as the head of its in-house Legal Department. Ms. Heffes succeeds Danny Wan, the prior Port Attorney, who became the Port’s Executive Director Nov. 14. A 31-year Port veteran, Ms. Heffes had been Interim Port Attorney while the Board sought Mr. Wan’s replacement.


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