ports, Vancouver would not currently have the extra container-handling capacity to provide shipping lines with an alternative entry point to North America, according to the Vancouver FraserPortAuthority’s vice-president of infrastructure ... That lost capacity created a serious backlog in containerized cargo movement from B.C.’s ports.
Maritime transport moves more than 80% of global merchandise by volume; even before the Covid-19 outbreak, ports were already handling more cargo, which pushed those with weaker infrastructure to “the limits of their capacity,” said S&PGlobalMarket Intelligence Associate Director Turloch Mooney, one of the authors of the report.
Maritime transport moves more than 80% of global merchandise by volume; even before the Covid-19 outbreak, ports were already handling more cargo, which pushed those with weaker infrastructure to “the limits of their capacity,” said S&PGlobalMarket Intelligence Associate Director Turloch Mooney, one of the authors of the report.
The new port will serve ... As the industrial park is expanding, the port may need to expand its capacity up to 1.5 million TEU in the future. The port, the second seaport in Java, is expected to be completed by 2024.
Through a power-purchase deal negotiated with utility DominionEnergy and the VirginiaDepartment of Energy, the port will begin receiving up to 10 percent of the output of new solar power installations totaling about 350 megawatts of capacity ... The timeline ranks among the most ambitious decarbonization plans in the ports sector.
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Islamic Port also featured strongly in eighth place overall ...The new report also highlights the resilience of East Asian ports and the capacity of Chinese ports in particular to effectively handle challenges brought about by the pandemic ... In 23rd place, the Port of Virginia is the top ranked port in North America.
Although Shanghai’s port, which handles one-fifth of China’s shipping volumes, has been operating throughout, it has been running at severely reduced capacity. Many shipments have been canceled, postponed or rerouted to other Chinese mega-ports such as Ningbo-Zhousan.
Although Shanghai’s port, which handles one-fifth of China’s shipping volumes, has been operating throughout, it has been running at severely reduced capacity. Many shipments have either been cancelled, postponed or rerouted to other Chinese mega-ports such as Ningbo-Zhousan.
"Global shipping closures and bottlenecks in manufacturing and shipping hubs, such as the current lockdown in Shanghai, the challenges at the Ports of Auckland and its knock-on effect to other NZ ports and land-based freight capacity, and congestion at Freedom's local distribution centre are unfortunately all causing ongoing delays," he said.
He stressed, "Russia must permit the safe and secure export of grain stored in Ukrainian ports." ... Facing this food emergency, how do we safely reopen the blocked supply chain bottlenecks at Ukraine's ports? Alternative rail and roads can't carry sufficient capacity to adjoining countries such as Poland and Romania.
The state-run company is moving at breakneck speed to increase coal supplies to fuel its thermal plants and ensure the units operate at more than 75% of capacity to avert another power crisis in India...Output from the new Siarmal mine in eastern Odisha state would rise gradually, reaching capacity of 50 million tonnes in about five to seven years.
"We all know that we cannot simply pay lip-service to these concepts ... "While capacity is currently sitting at 50 percent of pre-Covid levels, it's planned to reach 70 percent by July.".Around the same time, Air New Zealand also expected to be at 65 percent of 2019's international capacity with all except two of its 29 ports operating ... ....
Viewing areas near all the stages (limited by capacity), access to the VIPLounge, “premium restrooms” (aka not port-a-potties), private bars, free hair braiding and glitter, and a VIP festival entrance lane ... Each row of port-a-potties will have an accessible one at each end.