Hurricane Dorian

Hurricane Dorian passed through the Bahamas with category 5 winds of 185 miles per hour carrying out calamitous devastation to the northwestern section of the archipelago. With 53 reported dead and some 1,300 individuals unaccounted for, this was the strongest hurricane and greatest natural...

Southwest Air Co (NYSE: LUV) cancelled 600 flights in September due to Hurricane Dorian, but the company said it does not see a material effect in the third quarter. The company reaffirmed its third-quarter operating revenue per available seat mile guidance at 3-5% year-over-year growth,...

Hurricane Dorian's devastation of Grand Bahamas Island and the Abaco Islands  is so widespread that logistics providers lack basic infrastructure to deliver relief supplies, leading many shipments of food and other products to go to waste. Prioritizing what resources are needed and coordinating...

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Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said Sept. 9 that its airline unit will operate two cargo flights as early as next week bound for areas of the Bahamas devastated by Hurricane Dorian. Two aircraft will be deployed, with each operating one flight from Tampa, FL, to Nassau, Amazon said. Supplies are...

Insured losses from Hurricane Dorian’s direct hit on The Bahamas could approach $5 billion, according to various estimates made as damage assessments began late last week. The total loss, which includes large amounts of uninsured property, could be twice as much.  The catastrophe risk...

U.S. Southeast ports dodged the worse of Hurricane Dorian as it passed through the region. All ports south of North Carolina were reopened as Dorian was moving away from the mid-Atlantic states, according to the National Hurricane Center.  The ports of Wilmington, North Carolina and Norfolk,...

Canadian Armed Forces members deployed to the Maritimes to clear roads and help restore power while the Port of Halifax prepared to resume container operations after Dorian pummeled the region with hurricane-force winds and heavy rain.  Authorities reported more than 500,000 power outages, as well...

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Hurricane Dorian hangs around for another day SONAR Critical Events: Hurricane Dorian on Friday, September. 6, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Hurricane Dorian remains the top weather story as it barrels through the Outer Banks of North Carolina today. It made landfall in Cape Hatteras, NC, at 8:35...

Freeport Harbor in the Bahamas is open, but sources say operations are limited by a lack of electricity and personnel. Anthony Tam, a spokesman for Hutchison Ports, which operates the container terminal in Freeport in partnership with Terminal Investment Ltd., a subsidiary of Mediterranean...

Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) and CSX (NYSE: CSX) are telling customers to expect continuing delays as Hurricane Dorian travels up the East Coast.  Hurricane Dorian, which was a Category 1 hurricane Sept. 6 after strengthening earlier this week to a Category 3 hurricane (see video: https://youtu.be...

Larger air and ocean cargo operators are beginning to arrive in the Bahamas with emergency supplies days after Hurricane Dorian pulverized parts of the archipelago and made transportation there potentially treacherous. American Airlines on Sept. 5 sent a Boeing 737 from Miami to Nassau to deliver...

With Hurricane Dorian set to reach Canada's Atlantic provinces over the weekend, the Port of Halifax reported that the storm had begun affecting shipping traffic.  "Some vessels are arriving early, some are choosing to go elsewhere," port spokesperson Lane Farguson said on September 5, though he...

About 60 container ships are waiting to call at ports in the U.S. Southeast and Caribbean as they ride out Hurricane Dorian. Some are expected to call over the weekend as the storm passes through the region, while others are being diverted to other ports.  The U.S. National Hurricane Center said...