Breakbulk News

Logistics impacts from flooding in Houston and other parts of southeast Texas continue to spread.

Auto manufacturers in Mexico are seeing strong demand from NAFTA and other trade partners.

Cargo transportation providers along the Texas coast are preparing for major disruptions from Hurricane Harvey.

US automakers are going to need to discipline their supply chains if there’s any hope they will not repeat the past, industry experts said.

“Trade volumes between Qatar and Turkey have significantly increased over the past few months.”

The site, known as Parcel 14, is part of the port’s effort to expand its container and vehicle shipment business.

Increased volume has strained capacity at the region’s ports.

The new depth is still shy of the original draft.

Vehicle shipments through the Port of Portland continue to rise at double-digit clip.

Germany’s Zeaborn Group has consolidated its presence in the heavy lift/project cargo shipping market.

Removal of old transit sheds will provide more open space for cargo.

Andre Grikitis named breakbulk carrier's top executive in series of management changes.

Port CEO Brandy Christian called the agreement a “win-win”.

“This collaboration will intensify Bolloré Logistics' development in the Middle East.”

Harren & Partner are aiming for “light-touch” integration with SAL Heavy Lift.

Petrochemical investment in the US Gulf is a rare bright spot in a generally weak global breakbulk market.

Italian heavy hauler Fagioli used trucks, barges, and ships to move sections of the world’s third-largest tunnel boring machine from Germany to Italy.

The trust manager of the company said it had sought approval to remove its shares in April.

The project is capable of handling cargo, passenger ferries, and fishing vessels.

Heavy-lift and project carriers are developing a new market that a few years ago would have been unthinkable — the Northern Sea Route to Russia’s frigid Arctic region.

Yacht transportation is a niche market for the breakbulk and heavy-lift sector.

What made the move unusual was the challenge presented by the Dames Point Bridge.

Project shippers and carriers hope the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a political football for years, can get off the sidelines soon.

Steel accounts for 9.5 percent of US breakbulk volumes by dollar value, and is a primary commodity at ports including Houston; New Orleans; Mobile; Brownsville, Texas; and on the Delaware River.

The addition of The Steelman Companies follows mergers with Big Freight Systems and Schilli Companies, pushing Daseke revenue closer to $1 billion.

Carriers can lose up to 16 hours as vessels wait to be refueled.

Renovation of the port’s low-water ro-ro dock follows the completion in 2016 of a two-year, $13 million rebuilding of the main dock at the Tulsa-Catoosa port.

Private investment in that area totals $50 billion — "with a B."

The long-depressed market for multipurpose vessel operators is starting to improve.

The new service will join a US Gulf-West Africa service that UAL has operated for 25 years.

The East Hope Group is a formidable aluminium producer, with some 150 subsidiaries and 24,000 employees.

The Port of Los Angeles is the US West Coast gateway for Chilean fruit.

The company said vessels operations, in particular its ship management services, are “running stable."

With the rebuilding of Berth 9, Port Manatee has five berths that can handle loads of up to 1,000 pounds per square foot.

Rickmers Group filed for insolvency last week.

The collusion increased prices for the country’s growing auto industry between 2009 and 2012.

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has completed the lifting and positioning of the two largest units of an $8 billion Sasol ethane cracker and related plants that will add to exports of polyethylene resins from the US Gulf region.

“We can’t control the economy worldwide, but we can grow our market share in a down world economy.”

The agreement calls for an investigation into the possibility of establishing a rail connection between the two ports.

“The aim of the executive board is to work out a new restructuring solution together with creditors and making use of the tools of insolvency laws.”