Horizon Lines sells Puerto Rico terminal assets upon exit
March 12, 2015
Maritime shipping company Horizon Lines, Inc. announced Wednesday it has sold certain container terminal assets at the San Juan port to Luis Ayala Colon Sucrs, as well as reassigning its lease with the Puerto Rico Ports Authority effective immediately.
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Crowley gets influx of new container equipment
March 4, 2015
In response to high customer demand, Crowley Maritime Corporation’s liner services group is deploying an influx of new equipment, including hundreds of chassis, ISO tanks and high-cube containers, for use in the company’s services between the U.S., Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Central America.
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Crowley boosting capacity in Puerto Rico maritime route
January 20, 2015
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner services group announced Monday it will add flat deck barge to its South Atlantic Puerto Rico service in March, increasing the rotation between Jacksonville, Fla., and San Juan to four sailings each week.
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U.S. travel execs ‘cautious’ of U.S. opening to Cuba
December 22, 2014
WASHINGTON — First, the good news: if you’re a U.S. citizen who’s already licensed to travel to Cuba, you may now come back to the United States with $400 worth of Cuban goods, including $100 in duty-free rum and cigars.
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Crowley ships solar vehicle to U.S. student competition
July 15, 2014
Sixteen students from the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus will travel to Austin, Texas, for the 2014 American Solar Challenge, a competition that challenges teams of university students to design, build and race solar-powered vehicles.
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Crowley’s Puerto Rico warehouse gets FTZ classification
December 16, 2013
Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Caribbean logistics unit has recently been granted reclassification of its Puerto Rico warehousing and distribution center to Foreign Trade Zone status.
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Crowley to use San Juan as Caribbean transshipment hub
December 4, 2013
Less than a week after disclosing plans to invest new vessels to serve the Puerto Rico route, maritime shipper Crowley and the Gov. García-Padilla administration announced Tuesday the company’s plans to turn the island into its export hub for the Caribbean.
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Crowley to pay $350M for 2 new eco-friendly vessels
November 27, 2013
Maritime shipping company Crowley has placed an order for two faster and environmentally friendly liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered, combination container – Roll-On/Roll-Off (ConRo) ships that will be used to serve the U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico route.
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Crowley investing $275M in cargo handling equipment
May 22, 2013
Crowley Maritime Corporation’s liner services group is adding more than 3,000 pieces of cargo handling equipment to its fleet through a $275 million investment, company officials announced Tuesday.
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Crowley modifies fee, sparing consumers from potential ‘domino effect’ on cost of goods
January 28, 2013
Following a series of meetings with private trade groups, customers and government officials, maritime shipping company Crowley Puerto Rico Inc. agreed to modify and push back the implementation of a new “Chassis Usage Charge” that could have potentially meant an increase in prices for consumer goods transported to the island.
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Mandatory cargo inspections turn up drugs, no guns
January 10, 2012
Nine months after the Puerto Rico Port Authority launched mandatory cargo inspections at the maritime facilities in San Juan, some 43,000 containers have been processed turning up “substantial drug shipments” but no illegal firearms, Gov. Luis Fortuño said Monday during a tour of the facilities.
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Crowley buys Puerto Rico Freight Systems
July 1, 2011
Jacksonville-based Crowley Holdings Inc., parent company of the 119-year-old Crowley Maritime Corporation, announced Friday it has acquired the business and assets of Puerto Rico Freight Systems in Guaynabo, for an undisclosed amount.
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