Photo above: Port of Brookings Harbor
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Association of Pacific Ports News
April 4, 2022
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In this issue...
- Welcome New Member!
- Port & Maritime Business Management
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Call for editorial -- Pacific Ports Magazine May issue
- Member News:
- Port of Long Beach launches Clean Truck Fund Rate
- Liftech unveils new crane concept, the Balance Crane
- Taipei Port Logistics & Warehouse District Phase 2-1 land set for commercial leasing and development
- Port of Kaohsiung opens new landmark Budai Port Passenger Terminal
- Hualien Port Branch wins Annual Water Conservation award
- Port Authority of Guam holds demolition and cutting ceremony
- Matson appoints new leadership for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam
- AGP approves export facility expansion at Port of Grays Harbor
- Port of San Diego welcomes Danielle Moore as newest Port Commissioner
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Welcome New Associate Member!
Port & Maritime Business Management
The Association of Pacific Ports welcomes Port & Maritime Business Management (PMBM) as our newest Associate Member. While the company was formally incorporated last year, the team of highly seasoned professionals have been working together since 2012, providing board advisory and interim management services for both private and public companies in the industrial, ports, logistics, maritime, energy and manufacturing sectors. “Our complimentary skills and technical and operational expertise have provided very successful results for many organizations around the world,” said Emmanuel Polman, Head of Strategy and Transactions.
With a notable track record, the PMBM team engages with companies to take ownership of the full project life cycle, from concept to implementation. “We have the technical expertise to undertake feasibility studies, strategies, business case development, etc., but what distinguishes us from other consultancy firms is our operational expertise,” said CEO George Gourlay and Emmanuel Polman. Indeed, a quick review of team bios shows affiliations with some of the largest companies in the oil and energy, and maritime logistics supply chain sectors, including Saudi Aramco, Global Energy Group, Hutchison Ports, Sapura Energy, Aker Solutions, and Port of Rotterdam to name just a few.
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Next Pacific Ports Magazine: May 2022
We've started working on the next issue of Pacific Ports Magazine, scheduled for May 2022. We're always on the look out for new projects, new technologies, best practices, and activity updates. If you have an idea for an article, we want to hear from you! Not a writer? Not a problem, we can work with you to develop an informative and entertaining article.
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Key dates for the May issue of Pacific Ports Magazine:
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Mail out by: May 2, 2022
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Port of Long Beach launches Clean Truck Fund Rate
April 1, 2022 — Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles officials gathered Friday to launch the Clean Truck Fund rate, which will supercharge deployment of zero-emissions trucks and infrastructure at the nation’s largest port complex. As of April 1, cargo owners will pay up to $20 per loaded container hauled by drayage trucks in and out of the container terminals. Exemptions from the rate are provided for loaded containers hauled by zero emissions trucks, and under limited circumstances, by low-nitrogen oxide trucks.
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Liftech unveils new crane concept, the Balance Crane
March 31, 2022 — Liftech conceived a new crane concept, the Balance Crane, for unloading containers from large vessels and developed the design in collaboration with crane manufacturer ZPMC, Shanghai, China. The Balance Crane has reduced wheel loads and tie-down loads compared to a standard ship-to-shore container crane but functions similarly. The boom is continuous from the landside legs to the boom tip. The landside girder is connected to the boom with a parallel linkage.
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Taipei Port Logistics & Warehouse District Phase 2-1 land set for commercial leasing and development
March 31, 2022 — With the completion of land reclamation for Phase 2-1 of the Logistics & Warehouse District at Taipei Port, officials are now preparing invitations to bid for the three parcels that comprise this newly developed district. Firms interested in investing in Taipei Port are encouraged to participate and join in the further development of Taipei Port’s infrastructure.
Taipei Port, a branch of Port of Keelung, TIPC, is the largest international commercial port in northern Taiwan. Advantageous location and comprehensive and modern port facilities help make the port ideal for new private-sector commercial development. Business through Taipei Port continues to grow, with the 2 million TEU and 89.66 million mt, respectively, in container and cargo volumes handled in 2021 setting all-time records.
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Port of Kaohsiung opens new landmark Budai Port Passenger Terminal
March 31, 2022 — The removal of long-standing temporary barriers along the shoreline has finally revealed Budai Port’s newest building – the Budai Port Passenger Terminal. Reflecting comfortable, contemporary architectural aesthetics throughout, this impressive new structure is set to significantly enhance passenger services at Budai Port.
Port of Kaohsiung CEO Chin-jung Wang remarked that Budai is a key domestic offshore passenger port through which several hundred thousand passengers, both holiday travelers and residents, pass each year for the regular, comfortable ferry passage between Budai and Magong in the Penghu Archipelago.
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Hualien Port Branch wins Annual Water Conservation award
March 25, 2022 — Taiwan Port Co., Ltd. Hualien Port Branch won the national “110 Annual Water Conservation Outstanding Unit – First Prize in the Organization Group”. On March 22, Director Lai Jianxin, Director of the Water Resources Administration of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, commended the implementation of the model for promoting water conservation, and through the sharing and inheritance of experience, leading all walks of life in the country to invest in water-saving work; in August 2011, the Hualien branch proposed “Smart Port – Hualien Port’s Water Plenty Smart Allocation Application” to participate in the national “110 Annual Water Saving Performance Unit Selection” competition.
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Port Authority of Guam holds demolition and cutting ceremony
March 23, 2022 — Governor Lou Leon Guerrero and Lt. Governor Josh Tenorio joined the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of the Port Authority of Guam to commemorate the beginning of work to remove the Port’s inoperable assets, specifically two STS Gantry Cranes, two RTGs, the Mobile Harbor Crane and both sunken barges at F-6.
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Matson appoints new leadership for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam
March 22, 2022 — Matson has announced that Vic Angoco, senior vice president, Pacific, will succeed the retiring Bal Dreyfus as senior vice president, Alaska, based in Anchorage, effective July 1, 2022.
Currently responsible for Matson’s Hawaii, Guam, Micronesia and South Pacific operations as senior vice president, Pacific, Angoco began his 32-year maritime career on Guam and has held a wide range of operations and sales management roles. He joined Matson in 1996 as operations manager on Guam, and quickly rose through the ranks in successive sales, customer service and operations leadership positions in Guam and Hawaii. He was promoted to his current position in 2010.
The company also announced the following related promotions...
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AGP approves export facility expansion at Port of Grays Harbor
March 22, 2022 — With a focus on meeting demand for soybean oil feedstock for refining into renewable biofuels, while at the same time supplying protein to the growing Southeast Asian soymeal market, AG Processing Inc a cooperative (AGP) plans to increase their export shipping capacity. On Thursday, March 17th, AGP Board of Directors approved a major expansion and upgrade of its storage and export facility at the Port of Grays Harbor on Washington’s Pacific Coast. AGP, the Port of Grays Harbor’s largest marine terminal customer, plans to construct additional storage at its existing export facility at Terminal 2, along with a new state-of-the-art ship loader at Terminal 4.
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Port of San Diego welcomes Danielle Moore as newest Port Commissioner
March 21, 2022 — The Port of San Diego welcomes Danielle Moore as the newest commissioner to represent the City of San Diego. On March 16, 2022, Commissioner Moore was sworn in by Port District Clerk Donna Morales, who administered the oath of office.
“Danielle’s knowledge and expertise in renewable energy, infrastructure, and finance will greatly benefit the Port as we move forward with our Maritime Clean Air Strategy initiatives and critical infrastructure projects,” said Chairman Dan Malcolm, Port of San Diego Board of Port Commissioners. “On behalf of the Board of Port Commissioners, I welcome Commissioner Danielle Moore and look forward to her collaboration with the Board, Port staff, our tenants, and our neighboring communities.”
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