In his rookie year in office, Gov. Chris Christie has treated the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as if he were governor of both states.
A collaborative effort among Environmental Defense Fund, Port of Houston, Houston-Galveston Area Council (business) and Texas truck owners has successfully helped improve air quality around the Port.
In this week's PTI Media Watch: China invests in Brazilian ports to better facilitate Chinamax vessels; ports in Queensland, Australia, are facing pressure to expand to meet demand and ease the port bottlenecks; and news that the oil spill at Dalian Port, China, has been successfulyl contained and will not reach international waters.
In this week's PTI Media Watch: Authorities call for an Australian national ports plan, an upturn in the Baltic Dry index forecasts increased optimism for the dry bulk shipping sector, and a shipper is fined for deliberately concealing pollution left at its ports of call.
Port Technology International was out and about at the TOC Europe show last week (8th-10th June), which this year was held in Valencia, Spain. For all those who missed it, here's a round-up of all the news from the show...
In this week's PTI Media Watch: We find out what a 'top kill' is and BP risky techniques used to seal the Gulf of Mexico oil well before its explosion; while the White House seems likely to split enforcement authorities among federal entities, and we get an update on developments in the construction of Lekki port, Nigeria.
In this week's PTI Media Watch: US port security has global implications, how cold-ironing in Sweden is saving shippers money, and the eruptions in Iceland confirm shipping's global importance in export cycles.
In this week's PTI Media Watch: DP world draws close to its investment targets, the possibilities of AIS through satellite surveillance are debated and could rogue Chinese shippers be the maritime scourge of the future?
In this week's PTI Media Watch: An analysis of the new crop of shipping companies with a difference - no ships, US ports ask Obama for help with exports, and cargo ships take riskier routes to shortcut Californian fuel regulations.
In this week's PTI Media Watch: Anxiety in Asia as an official body reports that strengthening the Chinese yuan could prove "disastrous" for exporters; and Somali pirates tell their side to the Huffington Post.
In today's PTI Media Watch: Boston Mayor vows to keep LNG tankers out of Boston Harbour, Nigeria's deep sea ports are debated, ports in British Columbia celebrate an upturn in volumes to coincide with the Olympics.
In today's PTI Media Watch: The Port of Long Beach bucks the trend and increases its workforce by 34.5% in two weeks, US Coast Guard reveals its new strategy after Obama's budget cuts, and DP World's fortunes are investigated.