Marine terminals

The Port of New York and New Jersey’s share of the East Coast container market has slipped to less than one-third in recent years amid tough competition from other ports.

A new near-dock rail facility at the Port of New York and New Jersey could shave half a day or a day off the time it takes to get a box onto a rail car, officials predicted Monday.

The government of India has set the date by which all major, or public, ports should have in automated gate technologies.

Shippers and truckers in Southern California seek greater efficiency in night gates at Los Angeles-Long Beach.

An analysis of productivity data collected by JOC.com shows all dominant container ports booked significantly lower dwell times year-over-year in the first eight fiscal months through the end of November.

APM Terminals has agreed to sell its UK container trucking and transport unit Pentalver to US railroad company Genesee & Wyoming.

Container lines and shippers can fix what some consider to be a broken industry if they concentrate more on accelerating the flow of data and cargo and less on freight rates and cost-cutting measures.

A broad range of US shippers, truckers, and transportation intermediaries are asking federal maritime regulators to consider creating a rule to prevent marine terminals and container lines from charging demurrage and detention fees.

Consolidation of container lines could spur them to finally make a clean break from control of intermodal chassis.

A private sector-fueled initiative guided by the US Federal Maritime Commission aims to create a national portal in which key, non-proprietary information is shared with shippers, liners, truckers, and others to reduce port congestion.

DP World is partnering with Canada’s second-biggest public pension to create a $3.76 billion platform aimed at investing in container terminals.

Container shipping lines are “playing poker” with ports as their push for lower handling charges puts future terminal investments at risk, Drewry Shipping Consultants said.

Risks surrounding rapid changes in carrier and terminal industries are a source of confusion for ports and shippers.

Trucker appointments and extended gate hours gaining favor in Oakland.

The Eurokai group increased traffic by just shy of 1 percent in the first nine months of the year, with its Italian terminals posting the strongest growth.

Expansion into industrial zone and city development projects is part of China's One Belt One Road program.

The connection between private and public funding will be critical to raising the estimated $2 trillion to $3 trillion, which he said has the potential to become the world’s largest platform for global trade development, said DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem.

The length of time that containers sit idle at a marine terminal is critical because it affects the terminal’s cargo-handling productivity.

Maher Terminals has been acquired by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III and a subsidiary of Japanese shipping company NYK Line.

India’s biggest private port operator, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, is continuing to invest heavily in infrastructure upgrades at its flagship Mundra Port.

Rep. Duncan Hunter views PierPass as a model for other ports' efforts to extend gate hours.

Cameron Roberts, partner at Roberts & Kehagiaras, offers ways drayage and trucking companies can protect themsleves from financial and legal exposure to Hanjin Shipping assets.

Malaysia’s Westports said net profit rose in the third quarter on the back of strong revenue growth.

HHLA’s earnings edged slightly higher in the first nine months of the year.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone is amping efforts to pick up additional cargo as it nears completion of work to double capacity at its flagship Mundra port.

The Port of Long Beach will chip away at the backlog of empty Hanjin Shipping-leased containers in Southern California that has built up since the container line declared bankruptcy on Aug. 31 when a ship calls to pick up some of the empties.

Weak market conditions and liner network changes contributed to a 28 percent year-over-year fall in third-quarter underlying profit at APM Terminals.

A company has successfully tested a hybrid container designed to make it easier to move breakbulk and oversized cargo.

Synergies can be obtained through a single operating unit.

Hanjin collapse and chassis shortages result in longer truck visit times in LA-LB in September.

Terminal operators and stevedores make up the second-largest group of organizations making financial claims against bankrupt Hanjin Shipping.

Shippers are warning that the Russian government’s raising of stevedoring tariffs to boost port infrastructure investment may squeeze out some operators and force importers and exporters to eat the higher costs.

US ports could be an unexpected beneficiary of the historic settlement between the US government and German automaker Volkswagen.

PierPass meeting with stakeholders could eventually result in a new pricing model for extended gates in LA-LB.

A federal judge on Tuesday allowed a chassis company to terminate leases with Hanjin Shipping.

DP’s World’s container traffic increased slightly in the first nine months of the year.

Adani Port and Special Economic Zone boosted first-half profit by nearly 50 percent.

Weaker transshipment and intra-Asia cargo dragged down throughput and revenue at Hutchison Port Holdings Trust.

Hanjin Shipping is negotiating with the terminal operating subsidiary of Mediterranean Shipping Co. to purchase its TTI terminal in Long Beach, but MSC has a minimum annual financial commitment at another terminal in the port.

Multiple calls by large vessels on certain days of the week, known as vessel bunching, are straining the equipment and labor resources at US ports and presenting a growing threat to productivity at container terminals.