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The Jacksonville Port Authority on Tuesday celebrated the largest vessel ever to call the Florida port. The container ship, One Stork, has a carrying capacity of 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. Previously the largest ship to call Jaxport had a capacity of 11,923 TEUs. One Stork is the first of nine larger vessels that will call…
The contract agreement reached this week between the Teamsters union and Anheuser-Busch, averting a strike that could have begun Friday, calls for wage increases of $8 an hour over the five years of the deal. A $4-per-hour raise kicks in immediately. Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD) announced the deal late Wednesday. It awaits ratification in the coming…
Ongoing attacks on vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis continue to disrupt shipping lanes in the chemical industry’s supply chain, according to Al Greenwood, chemicals expert and deputy editor at ICIS. “It’s having an impact mainly in Europe and Asia. It’s rearranging routes because the rates for containers have really gone through the…
The beluga is an odd-looking whale found in the cold waters of the Arctic Circle. An aircraft that mimics the whale’s bulging forward attracts a lot of attention. It could become a more frequent visitor to North America after recently receiving operating authority from the Federal Aviation Administration. European aerospace manufacturer Airbus has commercialized the…
The Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill approved Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives includes language allowing Boeing an extra five years to produce 767 freighters for FedEx and UPS beyond the date when international standards mandating cleaner engine types kick in. The bill gives Boeing (NYSE: BA) a bridge, in case the express carriers…
Oil markets Monday were caught in the middle of opposing bearish and bullish forces, while the benchmark retail diesel price moved down only slightly, given significant declines in diesel futures prices the past two weeks. The Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average weekly retail diesel price declined 1.3 cents a gallon to $3.755. It’s the…