Americas News

The improvements at the Pasadena terminal, which are slated for completion by the end of Q2 2020, are said to be supported by a long-term agreement with a major refiner for approximately 2.0 million barrels of refined petroleum products storage capacity.

The US Coast Guard (USCG) is proposing to amend the requirements regulating personnel permitted to serve as a person in charge (PIC) of fuel oil transfers on an inspected vessel.

The new monthly auction process gives purchasers of an Intercontinental Exchange Permian WTI crude futures contract, deliverable at Magellan Midstream Partners’ East Houston terminal, the optionality to load the product directly onto a vessel at the Galena Park and Seabrook dock facilities.

The Alliance is soliciting interest for the conversion of the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 46, a 50-acre deep-water marine terminal.

The ports of Oakland and Los Angeles reported 7.5% and 8.7% year-on-year (y-o-y) increases in containerised cargo imports last month. However, it was a different story for the Port of Long Beach, which recorded a 9.7% drop in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).

Seven University of Manitoba research projects aimed at testing new technologies and techniques to improve responses to oil spills have been funded by the federal government.

Massachusetts-based Vila Nova do Corvo II, Inc., company managers Carlos Rafael and Stephanie Rafael DeMello, and vessel captain Carlos Pereira have agreed to pay a total of $511,000 in civil penalties and to undertake vessel improvements.

Canada’s BC Ferries has reported that more than 10,000 customers took part in its latest engagement survey – and ‘thoughts about reducing waste, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, and minimising air and noise emissions topped the list of considerations’.

Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) is selling its 50% stake in the biofuels company Belem Bioenergia Brasil (BBB) to Galp, which holds the other 50% stake in the company.

Mark Clayton has joined Dan-Bunkering (America) Inc. as a Senior Bunker Trader Offshore Division.