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The Port of Savannah handled an all-time record of nearly 500,000 TEUs in March, an increase of more than 48%, or 162,275 TEUs, compared to the same month in 2020. Counting the 498,000 TEUs


moved in March, GPA wrapped up the third quarter with a fiscal year-to-date (July-March) total of 3.9 million TEUs, on track to top 5 million for the first time ever in a single year. “Over the past six months,


unprecedented volumes have crossed our docks, but Georgia’s logistics community and GPA’s employees have risen to the occasion by working long hours and


bringing on additional


staff,” said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch. “To ensure our


vessel operations and


terminal services continue to keep pace with our growth, GPA is expediting a series of infrastructure projects from berth


and container Mason Mega yard


improvements to the expansion of intermodal rail.” GPA’s


Rail


Terminal volumes grew by 29.7% in March, moving an additional 10,924 containers for a total of 47,684. At the Appalachian Regional Port, intermodal liſts increased 37.7% for the month, up by 761 containers compared to March 2020, for a total of 2,782


SC Ports opens state- of-the-art Hugh K.


Leatherman Terminal


South Carolina Ports made history on April 9, welcoming the first vessel to the Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal, marking the first container terminal to open in the US since 2009. Operations launched March 30 with the arrival of the first container, followed by the first ship arrival with Hapag Lloyd’s Yorktown Express. The Leatherman Terminal,


which has been 20 years in the making, is a generational milestone for SC Ports and for


South Carolina. The terminal sits along the Cooper River in North Charleston, SC, near Charleston Harbor. Its cranes can be seen throughout the region — the changed skyline serving as a reminder


Charleston’s success as a port city.


The Leatherman Terminal


can efficiently work the biggest ships calling on East Coast ports. Phase One adds 700,000 TEUs of throughput capacity to the Port of


Port of Baltimore


completes dredging for 2nd deep


container berth


The Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore completed dredging operations the week of April 19 to create a second, 50-foot deep container berth at its Seagirt Marine Terminal. The


project, accomplished


as part of the public-private partnership between the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland


Port Administration (MDOT MPA) and Ports America Chesapeake, will allow the Port to accommodate two ultra- large ships simultaneously by the end of this year. With the second 50-foot


deep berth completed, four additional Neo-Panamax cranes will arrive this summer and will be operational later


of


containers. “Last month’s performance


constitutes a massive turn- around from the same period a year ago,” said GPA Board Chairman Will McKnight. “The Board’s decision to invest more than $100 million per year over the next three years will not only make Savannah better able to handle this new level of trade, but to take on additional business as our customers grow.” Over the coming months,


GPA will add container yard space and rail capacity, as well as growing its big ship service capabilities and crane fleet. By September, GPA will


Charleston. SC Ports CEO Jim Newsome


said that the opening of the terminal comes at just


the


right time as US container ports continue to handle unprecedented cargo volumes amid strong consumer demand. SC Ports had an all- time cargo record in March, with a 50% year-over-year increase in loaded imports. Its 1,400-foot berth can


handle a 20,000-TEU vessel. Five electric ship-to-shore cranes with 169 feet of lift height and 228 feet of outreach stand on the berth, ready to move cargo on and off container ships. These cranes are among the tallest on the East Coast.


this year. The berth project is part of a $122.1 million investment, with $105 million from Ports America, $10.5 million from the state and $6.6 million in federal funding. Ports America Chesapeake is also investing an additional $61 million into Seagirt for additional equipment, infrastructure enhancements and technology upgrades. The


planned expansion


of the 126-year-old Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore will accommodate double-stacked rail cars moving cargo to and from the Port, improving capacity from Baltimore to rail lines up and down the East Coast. That project is


commission Phase I of a project that will add a total of 650,000 TEUs of space at Garden City Terminal. A separate project adding 750,000 TEUs of annual capacity will open for operation in 2023. Also this year, the second


set of nine new working tracks will begin serving customers at the Mason Mega Rail Terminal, increasing GPA’s rail liſt capacity to 2 million TEUs per year. To enhance its vessel services,


GPA will straighten a bend at Garden City Terminal’s Berth 1. By 2023, the Port of Savannah will be able to simultaneously serve four 15,000-TEU vessels as well as three additional ships. In the same time frame, GPA is adding eight new ship-to-shore cranes to work the larger vessels, bringing its total fleet to 38.


The Leatherman Terminal’s


47-acre container yard has 25 hybrid rubber-tired gantry cranes and eight empty container handlers to efficiently move cargo boxes around the terminal. The rubber-tired gantry cranes are designed to reduce emissions and energy consumption. A six-acre refrigerated


cargo area has six-story tall refrigerated container


racks,


enabling SC Ports to handle more fresh, refrigerated and frozen goods. At full buildout, the $2


billion Leatherman Terminal will have three berths and 286 acres, adding 2.4 million TEUs of annual throughput capacity, doubling current capacity.


also benefitting from public- private investment between the federal government, Maryland, CSX and others. Pending


final National


Environmental Policy Act approval, CSX will complete final engineering and permitting, with construction expected late this year. The


TexAmerica Center (TAC) announced the addition of Woodfield, Inc to its industrial park. Based in Texarkana, TAC owns and operates one of the largest mixed-use industrial parks in the United States, servicing four states (Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma). TexAmericas Center will be the location of the company’s regional hauling division and its over-the-road (OTR) fleet management oversight, and Woodfield’s regional-based operations will begin in early May 2021.


Octopi, part of Navis and Cargotec Corp., announced that Savage has selected Octopi by Navis’ cloud-based terminal operating system (TOS) for its intermodal rail terminal in Idaho. The terminal is expected to be operational by mid-year 2021 and once complete, it will be a top agricultural gateway and Idaho’s first intermodal terminal.


Port of Oakland public-private


partnership between MDOT MPA and Seagirt operator Ports America Chesapeake was signed in 2010 in the wake of a national recession. The P3 has generated thousands of jobs and continues to result in increased tax revenue for the state and funds for the Transportation Trust Fund.


reports record cargo surge in March


An international trade boom is exploding at the Port of Oakland. The Port reported all-time high container volume for import and export cargo in the month of March. It said there’s no sign of the global surge in business activity


abating any time soon. “Ships are full, ocean freight


rates are sky high and the need for empty containers to ship more cargo is never-ending,” declared Port of Oakland M ar i ti m e


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American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 5.1% in March aſter falling 2.3% in February. In March, the index equaled 106.8 (2015=100) compared with 112.5 in February. “March’s drop comes as somewhat of a surprise,” said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. “I certainly heard from many fleets that the end-of-quarter rush was good, but early March was soſt. Truck freight volumes were also negatively impacted by supply chain issues from the lack of microchips and other inputs.”


Maersk has introduced container tracking on rail services. The service allows shippers to track when the container is loaded/ unloaded from rail. This has been enriched to show the last station that the container departed from and when the container arrives at the final rail destination. This is especially helpful where shipments have long rail journeys that span days in North America.


Carrier Logistics Inc. (CLI), veteran providers of freight management soſtware for LTL fleets, announced that JA Frate, Inc. has implemented paperless delivery management processes by using integrations with its FACTS solution for mobile signature capture and automated Proof Of Delivery (POD) documentation management. These capabilities allow customers to save on administrative costs and receive POD copies in real time.


Consolidated Chassis Enterprises, Consolidated Chassis Management parent company of (CCM), announced that


CCM’s technology group will become a new division named Consolidated Intermodal Technologies (CIT). Formerly CCM’s CIT Group, the company will bring to a broader market the proprietary state-of-the-art technology that has been optimizing CCM’s chassis pool operations through tens of millions of transactions.


Energy Transport Logistics and TM Express have entered into an alliance. TM Express will continue to provide high quality and reliable service in the truckload, intermodal and brokerage markets. Energy Transport Logistics will support the LTL service previously provided by TM Express.


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