SCN Container Line Inc. initiated independent service linking the three major ports of South Florida with 18 ports in a dozen countries in Central America and South America.
Led by South Florida shipping industry veterans Fernando Bowen and Raymond M.
Hernandez, SCN Container Line began service this spring, offering intermodal rates and bills of lading on less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments as well as full containers.
SCN Container Line operates receiving terminals in Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago, and plans to open a New Jersey terminal later this year.
Utilizing the Port of Miami, Port Everglades and the Port of Palm Beach, SCN Container Line offers weekly service to and from the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
South American countries on SCN Container Line's schedule of service every 12 days include Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina.
SCN Container Line's Miami receiving terminal and fully computerized headquarters is located at 1820 N.W. 94th Ave., Miami, Fla.
33172-2329, tel: (305) 592-6266; fax: (305) 477-0666.
is laying out the blueprints for the design, construction, and operation of a 75,000-ton, 2,000 passenger U.S.-Registered passenger ship. The South Florida cruise line is following the recent trend of U.S.-built, flagged and crewed passenger ships. While the inaugural company is focused on catering
of …Tracy Whirls is the executive director of the Glades County Economic Development Council, Inc. and she has followed the development of the South Florida Inland site back even to when she was a reporter for the local paper. She has seen the site, along US 27 just west of Moore Haven, Florida go from
Yacht Carriers Ltd. recently began a new scheduled service dedicated to transporting yachts between south Florida, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Ocean Marine Consultants and Surveyors, Inc. (OMCS), with offices in Port Everglades, Fla., and Mandelieu, France, are the exclusive worldwide
Fort Lauderdale, announces the appointments of Robert J. Flint as senior vice president in charge of all stevedoring and terminal activities in South Florida ports, including operations at Tam- pa, Miami, Port Everglades, and Port Canaveral, and Ben E. Mercer as senior vice president for the Middle
designer of steel sailing yachts. Rover Marine plans to use the 150-passenger vessel for chartering on Chesapeake Bay in summer months and in South Florida during the winter. Designed to American Bureau of Shipping and U.S. Coast Guard rules, the American Rover is longitudinally framed with 212
feet and depth of 13 feet, will provide fueling service and ship docking assistance for vessels employed in the passenger and freight trades of the South Florida area. The tug, stationed in the Port of Miami, joins the company's fleet of 39 tugs and barges operating in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Coast
successful Miami branch has been reorganized as a separate company within the Bailey group of companies. "The growth of cruise activity out of south Florida has been phenomenal," says Mr. Nilsen, explaining the move. "We felt a fully independent operation was needed to give it the service it deserves
local response organizations. He added that each of the regional centers, which will be located in the New York/New Jersey area, the Miami area of south Florida, in Lake Charles, La., Port Hueneme in southern California, and in the Seattle, Wash., area, is being designed to provide this best effort
relay to the "on-duty" surveyor on a seven-day, 24-hour basis. The recent addition to the staff of Capt. James (Jim) McCrory, well-known in south Florida and the Virgin I s l a n d s / S a n Juan areas, has somewhat relieved the heavy work load on the Underw r i t i n g Condition/Survey and Yacht
international manufacturer's representatives to help maintain the company's international presence. Miller holds a degree from the University of South Florida in Tampa, and is a member of The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Assisting Miller will be Amanda Casey, who has
Rick Cole RDSEA International, Inc., St Pete Beach, Florida, founded in 2002 by Rick Cole while a Research Associate at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science, around the increased need for experience and expertise in “ocean technologies” in the blue-water and coastal regions
, MI Navigation - $1,567,596,000 construction funding in ? scal years 2018 through 2023 ac- counted for approximately 50 percent of total dollars and SOUTH FLORIDA ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION, FL Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration - $2,600,642,000 34 percent of Corps projects that received funding during Source: United
to data collection, research and we’ll also expand the Florida facility to service the but all the way to the human that is making action and making South Florida Gulf Coast and Texas markets for cruise ships.” decisions and trying to understand the ocean.” In evaluating the physical manifestations of Greensea
. enough horsepower chilled water pump. I recall a saltwater sion package to provide power to the compressor, which chiller system installed on a South Florida research ves- is mounted to the front of the engine. The raw water feed sel of 100 feet in length during a period of moderniza- can be siphoned
must-do. For manta rays, which are listed as vul- nerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, it is arguably vital. South Florida appears to be home to one of just three known manta ray nurseries in the world. “The manta rays are very young, so this is re- ally important
but found very little. “I know hundreds of people researching sea turtles, and I couldn’t believe that no one was studying manta rays [in South Florida],” she says. Manta rays favor shallow water with strong currents With Florida’s coast so highly devel- oped, it is a surprising location for a
comes to the last business trip that I took in 2020 was the fore, it would be a stretch to imagine International Sales Scandinavia & Germany to south Florida about this time last year to that 2021 will be a ‘zero-revenue environ- Roland Persson Orn Marketing AB, Box 184 , S-271 24 meet with the
introduced me to a company called MTN, Maritime out to a bodega or a remittance place, take out the cash that Telecommunications Network, which was a South Florida they just received, and send money home. So I made contact based satcom company. MTN managed Internet Café’s on with Travelex, and I ? gured
had used steam, built ment systems for the marine, offshore and building indus- up scale easily. They were subject to steam ? ow, tempera- tries in South Florida. tures and pressures which lead to high maintenance. They “The evaporator was the most common way of securing incorporated several pumps, alarms
pioneering women. Believ- physical oceanography at the University ter, England, inspired by the nearby ing it is important for children to grow of South Florida, where she lived and Lovell Telescope — which was then up around role models, she remarked worked with the Florida Coastal Ocean the world’s
superyachts. reer day for teens in a summer camp program run by Marine MPT has a yachting division but is not exclusively a Industries Association of South Florida (MIASF) and liaises yachting school, offering students a variety of career op- with Junior Achievement (JA) to create awareness of marine tions
University of Maryland. ? ce. Abisch joins Crowley following Foss Welcomes New CFO a career with Econocaribe Consoli- Sea Machines CEO dators in South Florida. Goldenberg Foss Maritime Company announced Speaks at Global also joins Crowley following a 30-year that Mike Welch has joined the Entrepreneurshi
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of light fashing against the sky With 22 cruise lines berthing 55 ships at PortMiami, mil- and Biscayne Bay. lions of passengers travel through the South Florida port ev- The Miami-Dade County Commission also approved a ery year with an emphasis on cruises to the Bahamas, the 42 Maritime Logistics Professiona
Center in Winter Haven, Florida that is marketed “as a state-of-the-art centralized transportation and distribution hub for Tampa, Orlando, and South Florida.” The 318-acre CSX- affliate Evansville Western Railway terminal near by is able to process up to 300,000 shipping containers per year. Connected
all of Economic Development Council, Inc. and she has followed the those pieces are falling into place and it just takes time.” development of the South Florida Inland site back even to when Asked for her insight about the development of inland ports she was a reporter for the local paper. She has seen
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VESSELS Infrastructure Resource in South Florida Florida Superior Sand, Inc. recently purchased a DSC Wolverine Class dredge for their sand mine site in Palm City. Florida Superior Sand acquired a DSC Wolverine 10-inch dredge to meet the challenges of their new sand mining operations. Florida Superior
infrastructure enabling delivery of life saving goods and services. Sonardyne Aids The U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Cen- ter Carderock Division’s South Florida NSWC Testing Ocean Measurement Facility. ISE Sells AUV to China Sonardyne Inc. has been chosen by Canadian underwater systems and ro- the U.S
of a historic stantial increase from 25.8 million in 2017. district has upset some of the old-timers. But, outside of the true mega cruise ports in south Florida with their enormous economies of scale (and therefore, the Over the past six years, a legal battle ability to attract more cruise business)
that you have chinery is better for the environment. monitoring and diagnosis. Early instru- found over the years that might indi- I moved to South Florida and saw there AME by the numbers: please provide ments were heavy, expensive and had cate a problem is imminent? wasn’t anyone offering vibration
Port Finance late 2016 authorization, the port has embarked on an expan- P3 in Practice The roster of projects in south Florida (a P3 friendly state), sion plan (with completion in 2022) that includes dredging to from the bigger access projects to the very specifc business- deepen its entrance channel and
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Project Director for its rine LLC, an independent boat dealership chael Toscano on January 12, 2015. Diving Division and the Global QHSE located in South Florida specializing in Wynne is currently president of the Elec- Director, to be based at UMG’s head of- electric propulsion options for boaters. tric
. This was never more appar- ent to me than on a recent return trip from West Palm Beach to New York, a mixed business and pleasure trip to South Florida to visit a few key companies and to attend the wedding of my col- league Mike Kozlowski to his beautiful bride Susie in early October. As