May29No Comments
Garcetti nominates shipping executive as Port of Los Angeles director
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Tuesday nominated a veteran shipping company executive to become director of the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s busiest harbor for container cargo. If approved by the City Council, Gene Seroka, 49, head of the...
Apr21No Comments
Beyond Freeways: Commerce, Community, and Contention along Los Angeles’s 710 Corridor
How a freeway crushes communities, how residents are fighting back plans to make it even bigger, and what alternatives have been presented to yet more of the same…. Read the full article
Apr09No Comments
Cleaning up ports and container transport
Ninety percent of goods are transported around the world by ship. Los Angeles has two ports. The ports of Los Angeles and the port of Long Beach. Together they are the largest port in the western hemisphere. Ports are a big point source of pollution....
Feb07No Comments
Port productivity: Handling freight more efficiently
As cargo ships get bigger, shipping lines unite and world trade grows only slowly, seaports are facing growing pressure to offer faster service at lower rates to lure major customers to their docks. Some 140 port experts from around the nation met in...
Jan27No Comments
Work begins on world’s largest containership
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has this week began building the first of five 19,000 TEU containerships on behalf of China Shipping Container Lines (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. The first vessel, due for delivery in November this year, will become the world’s...
Jan27No Comments
UK’s Largest Container Railfreight Depot Just One Year From Opening
Dubai Port London Gateway is a £1.5bn development covering 560 acres on the north bank of The Thames on the site of the former Shellhaven refinery near Stanford Le Hope. It has, literally, the capacity to change the Railfreight container business and...