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  • US Authorities Intercept Cocaine Shipment off Puerto Rico

    12 February 2015

    The U.S. authorities seized a 989 kilograms (2,176 pounds) cocaine shipment and apprehended thirteen men following an at-sea interdiction of a delivery vessel and coastal freighter, approximately eight nautical miles off the coast of Manatí, Puerto Rico February 3, 2015. Two of the suspected smugglers from the delivery vessel, both of Venezuelan nationality, were charged with […]

  • Horizon Lines Concludes Puerto Rico Terminal Assets Sale

    12 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    US cargo liner Horizon Lines has sold its San Juan, Puerto Rico container terminal assets and assigned its lease with the Puerto Rico Ports Authority to Luis Ayala Colon Sucrs. The companies entered and executed the Asset Purchase Agreement effective March 11, 2015. The Agreement follows Horizon Lines’ announcement on November 11, 2014 to cease providing […]

  • Tanker carrying crude oil runs aground in Puerto Rico

    28 April 2006

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – No injuries or leaks are reported after a tanker filled with nearly 309-thousand barrels of crude oil ran aground in southwestern Puerto Rico. The Coast Guard says the incident occurred Thursday as the ship, with 28 crew members, waited to transfer its cargo after a trip from Colombia.

  • HORIZON LINES CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF SERVICE IN PUERTO RICO

    8 August 2008

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, August 6, 2008 – Horizon Lines, Inc., (NYSE:HRZ), the nation’s leading domestic ocean shipping and integrated logistics company, yesterday celebrated 50 years of service in Puerto Rico at an event for customers, vendors, labor leaders, government officials and staff held at the company’s San Juan marine terminal. Speakers at the ceremony […]

  • Hurricane Maria Closes Ports in Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

    20 September 2017

    Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are yet again closed to vessels as Hurricane Maria approaches the area, only two weeks after the previously set port condition ZULU. Effective 8 am local time on September 19, the Coast Guard Captain of the Port San Juan, Capt. Eric P. King, set port condition ZULU for […]

  • CSA Wraps Up Field Surveys Off Puerto Rico

    7 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA), under a subcontract to Jacobs, has completed a comprehensive environmental monitoring survey offshore Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Aqueduct Authority (PRASA). The survey included physical, biological, and chemical field sampling and data collection at the Aguadilla, Arecibo, and Ponce Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (RWWTP) outfalls Since 1999, CSA has been […]

  • Crowley: Puerto Rico Considers Leaving the Jones Act Behind

    2 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    A recent debate on stabilizing the economy of Puerto Rico also triggered discussions of exempting the island trade from the Jones Act, which could “bring further investment in vessels built in U.S. shipyards to a standstill,” Crowley Maritime Corporation’s Michael Roberts, senior vice president and general counsel, said. Roberts further said that no credible proof was offered to suggest […]

  • Crowley to Supply LNG to Coca-Cola Bottlers in Puerto Rico

    12 March 2014

      Crowley’s Carib Energy has been awarded a multi-year contract to supply containerized, U.S.-sourced Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to its first industrial customer, Coca-Cola Puerto Rico Bottlers in Cayey and Club Caribe in Cidra, both wholly owned subsidiaries of CC1 Companies. The contract, executed through Crowley’s Carib Energy subsidiary, includes the fuel supply and transportation […]

  • EIA: Puerto Rico LNG imports bounce back to peak levels

    9 April 2019

    In 2018, Puerto Rico’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports neared 2016 annual levels, according to the recently released LNG Annual Report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy. Imports into Puerto Rico were disrupted in 2017 after Hurricane Maria made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on September 20, 2017. Puerto Rico […]

  • FERC issues DEIS on LNG facility offshore Puerto Rico

    8 August 2014

    Excelerate Energy, in cooperation with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), has received the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its Aguirre Offshore Gasport Project (AOGP) located offshore Puerto Rico. The FERC staff concludes in its statement that the construction and operation of the project would result […]

  • Tropical Storm Erika Closes Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Ports

    27 August 2015

    The U.S. Coast Guard set Port Condition ZULU at midnight local time Wednesday for all the ports in the U.S. Virgin Islands and 2 am local time Thursday for the eastern and northern ports of Puerto Rico due to the passing of Tropical Storm Erika. Ports under Port Condition ZULU will officially suspend port operations and are […]

  • TOTE, INTERSHIP Team Up in Puerto Rico Terminals JV

    4 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Two transportation and logistics firms, TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico and INTERSHIP, have joined forces to form a joint venture terminal operating company Puerto Rico Terminals (PRT). The joint venture includes combining maritime operations and USD 38 million worth of existing assets at the Puerto Nuevo terminals near San Juan. PRT is expected to move over 250,000 containers and […]

  • Tropical Storm Erika Closes Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Ports

    27 August 2015

    The U.S. Coast Guard set Port Condition ZULU at midnight local time Wednesday for all the ports in the U.S. Virgin Islands and 2 am local time Thursday for the eastern and northern ports of Puerto Rico due to the passing of Tropical Storm Erika. Ports under Port Condition ZULU will officially suspend port operations and are […]

  • Puerto Rico Invites Bids for Super Yacht Marina Complex

    27 May 2015

    The Puerto Rico Ports Authority (PRPA) has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for the leasing, design, construction, operation and financing of the rehabilitation, improvement and operation of the Isla Grande Dry Dock in the City of San Juan, and the design, construction, financing, and development of a super yacht marina complex. The due date […]

  • US Senators Push to Exempt Puerto Rico from Jones Act

    29 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    US Senators John McCain and Mike Lee have introduced legislation that would permanently exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act to aid recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria and encourage long-term economic growth. While the Trump administration granted a 10-day Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico on September 28, the senators’ legislation, introduced […]

  • NSA, Rickmers-Linie Expand Break Bulk Services to Puerto Rico

    10 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    National Shipping of America (NSA), which operates a fortnightly service between Houston, Port Everglades, and Puerto Rico, has partnered with Rickmers-Linie (America) to provide more global connections to Puerto Rico shippers and greatly expand break bulk service opportunities to the island. Rickmers-Linie will also serve as general sales agent for National Shipping in North America. […]

  • Crowley Christens LNG-Powered ConRo Ship in Puerto Rico

    25 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Crowley christened the U.S.-flagged combination container/roll on-roll off ship MV Taíno on February 22.

  • Puerto Rico Ports Authority Introduces Pier 3 Dredging Plan

    14 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, has received an application from the Puerto Rico Ports Authority for a dredging project, located at berthing areas of Pier 3 in Old San Juan Cruise Port, Puerto Rico.  The main goal of this maintenance dredging scheme is to provide safety depth to avoid grounding of large […]

  • Crowley Puerto Rico Breaks Ground for New Isla Grande Pier

    18 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Crowley Puerto Rico Services, part of Jacksonville-based Crowley Holdings, has broken ground on a USD 48.5 million construction project for a new pier at its Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The project includes the development of a new 900-foot-long, 114-foot-wide concrete pier and all associated dredging needed to accommodate Crowley’s two new liquefied natural […]

  • Pivotal in LNG supply deal with Crowley, Molinos de Puerto Rico

    1 September 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Pivotal LNG and Crowley Maritime’s unit, Carib Energy, executed a multi-year contract for the supply of liquefied natural gas.

  • Crowley Signs Multi-Year Deal to Ship LNG to Puerto Rico

    1 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    US-based liquefied natural gas company Pivotal LNG signed a multi-year agreement to sell liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Carib Energy, a subsidiary of Crowley Maritime Corp, which will then be shipped to Puerto Rico, according to Crowley. Under the contract, Pivotal will load LNG onto international shipping organization (ISO) containers, authorized by the US Department of Transportation […]

  • Pasha Hawaii Deploys Jones Act Ship for Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Efforts

    17 October 2017
    Business & Finance

    Honolulu-based shipping company Pasha Hawaii intends to provide the US Jones Act vessel Horizon Spirit to ship hundreds of containers from the West Coast in support of hurricane relief and rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico.  The Horizon Spirit serves as a drydock reserve ship in Pasha Hawaii’s container service between the mainland and Hawaii. In […]

  • House Bill Pushes for 5-Year Jones Act Halt in Puerto Rico

    11 October 2017

    US Congressman Gary Palmer and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez have introduced a legislation which would provide a 5-year moratorium of the Jones Act in Puerto Rico as the island recovers from a series of devastating hurricanes. They said that the Puerto Rico Humanitarian Relief Act would “provide relief from this burdensome regulation and allow Puerto Rico the opportunity […]

  • TOTE: World’s First LNG-Powered Container Ships to Serve Puerto Rico

    4 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    TOTE, Inc. announced on December 4, 2012, it has committed to the construction of two new state-of-the-art container ships for the Puerto Rico trade, with options for three more vessels for additional domestic service. The agreement with General Dynamics NASSCO represents a major technological milestone in international shipping. The vessels will be the most environmentally […]

  • American Energy ready to fortify Puerto Rico’s security of supply with LNG cargos

    18 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Vessels

    Crowley has joined forces with Naturgy, enabling it to send what it describes as the first U.S. LNG carrier (LNGC) to Puerto Rico, bolstering the North American country’s energy security amid growing power demand.