Crowley Puerto Rico Services Inc. announced Tuesday it has broken ground on a $48.5-million construction project for a new pier at its Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan.
Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla on Wednesday toured the San Juan port zone where marine cargo company Sea Star Line will invest $400 million to integrate two new cargo ships into its service and make terminal improvement to accommodate increased activity.
Maritime cargo operator Sea Star Line, LLC announced Monday it has entered an agreement to on-hire another barge to add to its current service package for shipments from Jacksonville to Puerto Rico, which responds to escalating concerns from government and private sector components over the lack of goods in the last few weeks.
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.
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.
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.
Sea Star Line, LLC announced last week it has entered into an agreement to lease two barges with combined additional capacity of 800 40-foot equivalent units.
Sea Star Line, LLC announced Monday its intention to add a weekly container barge service to its existing sailing schedule.
Fifty-six years after it began offering cargo services between Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland, Horizon Lines Inc. announced Tuesday that it would cease providing liner service by the end of 2014, citing “continuing losses without the prospect of future profitability.”
Sea Star Line, LLC has selected Tideworks Technology Inc., a provider of full-service terminal management and planning software solutions, to implement its suite of terminal operating system solutions at its Jacksonville, Fla. and San Juan terminals.
Ports Authority officials admitted Monday before the Senate that the agency is not inspecting 100 percent of incoming cargo containers delivered by the different shipping companies that serve the island.
Ferry service between Puerto Rico and its island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra could be be significantly cut back starting in January, because the government has apparently decided not to renew its contract with private operator Puerto Rico Fast Ferries, this media outlet learned Wednesday.
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.
We knew that the recently completed study on Puerto Rico’s maritime cargo would be controversial because cabotage issues, part of the study, have been discussed for decades and have become an emotional and politically charged subject.
Liberty International Underwriters is adding maritime cargo insurance to its Puerto Rico portfolio, looking to tap into that business line via a web-based service through which clients can obtain required coverage for their inbound and outbound shipments.
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