Marine terminals

APM Terminals has ordered more than 40 pieces of equipment for its second transshipment terminal under construction at the Tanger-Med port complex in Morocco.

DrayQ and DrayLink to be introduced in Seattle-Tacoma in early November to improve terminal efficiency for truckers and BCOs.

PierPass Inc. discusses possible changes in its model with port stakeholders in LA-LB.

International Container Terminal Services Inc. last week opened the first phase of its Basra Gateway Terminal in the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr.

FMC Chairman Mario Cordero expresses concern after receiving staff briefing on analysis of PierPass fee collections and disbursements.

Los Angeles and Long Beach have served as a laboratory for creative measures to cope with the growing container volumes and the surges of cargo from mega-ships that have also challenged other US ports.

The port is operating close to capacity with berth utilization over 90 percent.

Hyperloop One is a US start-up developing technology to transport cargo in tubes at up to 700 miles an hour.

“Through global partnership and shared goals of operational excellence, there is much we can achieve together, even in the current difficult business environment,” said Kim Fejfer, APM Terminals CEO.

Deliveries of ship-to-shore container gantry cranes, which are transported by specialized heavy-lift vessels, rose slightly in 2015.

A trucker advocacy group at the Port of New York and New Jersey is preparing to launch a system to track terminal turn times in an effort to prod terminals into reducing delays.

A Long Beach container terminal's willingness to collect Hanjin Shipping containers only solves part of the problem.

PSA International is making its first venture into China’s hinterland rail network.

DP World is continuing to shore up productivity levels throughout India.

Terminal operators are hit by weak global trade and ongoing structural changes.

Hanjin Shipping terminals in the United States will begin to accept empty Hanjin-owned containers.

Southern California’s landmark “pool of pools” in which three equipment providers share more than 72,000 inter-operable chassis could be improved.

Upward of 20,000 empty Hanjin containers remain scattered throughout Southern California with no place to go.

DP World Australia has ordered four ship-to-shore cranes for its terminals on the east coast of Australia.

Hanjin ship to pick up about 1,000 empty containers in Seattle next week.

A federal judge has agreed to hear the arguments of several chassis, container, and fuel providers demanding Hanjin Shipping reply more quickly to their “urgent” requests for information on the location of their assets.

Global trade infrastructure developer DP World is interested in building on its African investments to improve the quality of infrastructure on the continent.

Ports America and Cooper/T. Smith have merged their Houston breakbulk operations into a joint venture that has acquired all assets of Shippers Stevedoring and Chaparral Stevedoring.

A pilot program for the first truck appointment system in a terminal at the Port of New York and New Jersey will begin in October.

US ports so far have been doing a reasonably good job loading and unloading mega-ships within the required berthing windows, but carriers’ relentless deployment of ever-larger vessels will soon catch up with terminal operators.

Hanjin Shipping has set up a yard to accept and store its empty containers in central New Jersey.

With chassis shortages in Los Angeles-Long Beach reaching a crisis level, a Southern California warehouseman is ready to accept and store empty and leased Hanjin Shipping containers.

Trucking companies that regularly hauled containers for Hanjin Shipping may end up losing tens of thousands of dollars.

The refrigerated trade is a lone bright spot in a global liner shipping industry that is struggling to find profitability.

Container owners have released a list aimed at making it easier for shippers and transportation providers to return containers leased to Hanjin Shipping.

There are no negative consequences to the shipper for its container missing a ship. For the ocean carrier, the costs are huge.

"In certain cases the costs of upgrading will not be worth it, and you will likely see some facilities abandoned.”

Productivity levels at the world’s top 30 container ports have shown little sign of improvement over the past two years, and ports in several regions are showing worrying levels of decline.

Hanjin Shipping told a US District Bankruptcy Court on Friday how it would handle the late return of containers.

Morten Engelstoft is to take up the position of CEO of APM Terminals as part of a set of changes in the executive management of the Maersk Group.

Hanjin Shipping’s bankruptcy filing has once again exposed how fragile the new chassis regime is in the United States.

Russia’s competition watchdog will split the denomination of tariffs for stevedoring into the local ruble and the US dollar.

North European short-sea operators of the CMA CGM group are expanding their container capacity.

The US Federal Maritime Commission has had some success in helping cargo interests minimize costs and retrieve cargo stranded by Hanjin Shipping’s bankruptcy.

Carrier's boxes aren't being allowed in or out of port's terminal gates.