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.
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.
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.
Sea Star Line Inc. recently donated $25,000 to the Iniciativa Comunitaria nonprofit organization in Hato Rey, to expand its Apego project to allow the children of program participants to visit their loved ones for longer periods of time.
Nearly 40 commercial customers who opted out of the $52.2 million settlement that maritime cargo companies Sea Star and Crowley reached with the U.S. government a few months ago have filed a new class-action suit against the carriers at the U.S. District Court in South Carolina.
Sea Star Line announced Wednesday it is implementing a 3.5 percent general rate increase effective April on shipments between U.S. maritime ports and Puerto Rico.
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.
Jacksonville, Fl.-based Sea Star Line LLC will have to pay a $14.2 million fine upon reaching a plea agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division to settle a charge of violating federal antitrust laws with respect to Puerto Rico trade activity in a case dating to April 2008.
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