North American ports

North Carolina’s ports of Wilmington and Morehead City will close noon Friday as the coast braces for the impact of Hurricane Irene and the 115 miles-per-hour winds expected to hit landfall abou

Containerized imports declined a combined 2.3 percent at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in July compared to the same month last year, as the ports handling fell short of an especially strong

Two longshore workers were killed in work accidents at Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in Philadelphia and Maher Terminals in Port Newark, N.J.

Resins are the unchallenged king of the Houston container market, but there are millions of reasons that could change in the years ahead.

The Commonwealth of Virginia is offering shippers a tax credit for moving containers off the highways to the marine highway or railways, Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton said Tues

Container, auto and breakbulk volumes at Georgia’s two deep-water ports surged at double-digit rates in the 12 months of the fiscal year ended June 30, the Georgia Ports Authority reported Monda

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell replaced 10 out of the 11 members on the board that oversees the Virginia Port Authority in an effort to spur lagging volume and revenue.

Total Transportation Services, a Long-Beach, Calif-based port drayage company, plans to buy 100 hydrogen fuel cell plug-in e

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach face the conundrum of having to run up to five night and weekend gates each week to prevent gridlock in the harbor, all while losing money every day they o

Container imports at the Port of Seattle fell back 27.8 percent in May from the same month a year ago in a broad decline in international shipping at Pacific Northwest ports.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks programs are nearing the end of their first phase, and despite many controversies, the initiatives exceeded all expectations and have set new standards for redu

Long Beach’s chief engineer sees deepening the harbor to accommodate the world’s largest vessels, building large container terminals, expanding on-dock rail connectivity and establishing g

East and Gulf Coast ports, predicting they will increase their share of the U.S.-Asia trade when the Panama Canal expansion is complete in three years, made a big pitch to industrial real estate devel

Combined container import volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 4.8 percent year-over-year in May, slower than the growth rate the month before and behind the 5.1 percent increase in

Noka Shipping, a Greek ship management company, agreed to pay $900,000 in fines and was barred from operating in the United States after pleading guilty to multiple water pollution charges.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach will increase the traffic mitigation fee charged during daytime hours to $60 per TEU from $50 beginning July 4.

Container volume moving through West Coast ports increased 7 percent in April compared to April 2010, with export growth outpacing import growth.

The Georgia Ports Authority, facing environmental opposition to its plans to deepen the Savannah River to 48 feet, said its recently completed environmental survey shows wildlife is flourishing at its

The Virginia Port Authority board of commissioners approved the lease agreement with the Port of Richmond to take over operations at the James River port and thereby unify all container cargo terminal

The Port of Houston Authority hired high-profile defense attorney Rusty Hardin to work as a liaison with the district attorney and county attorney as they investigate allegations against the organizat

California’s largest container ports are working hard to protect their market share in the trans-Pacific trade, but their toughest challenge isn’t competition from other ports.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Monday endorsed construction of an estimated $140 million highway that would link the Port of Savannah more directly to interstate trucking routes.

The Port of Savannah posted its second highest monthly volume ever in April when it handled 260,035 20-foot equivalent units, an increase of 8.5 percent from April 2010.

Combined imports and exports at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the busiest U.S. container ports, rose 7.2 percent in April from a year earlier, led by a 7.8 percent gain in exports.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has a reputation of militancy, but a Southern California union official said recent history shows the ILWU is a collaborative partner of the West Coast

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah increased 4.5 percent in March from the same month last year, at the same time as the number of roll-on, roll-off units passing through the Por

While East and Gulf coast ports deepen their harbors and expand container terminals to prepare for the mega-ships expected to call when the Panama Canal is enlarged in 2014, the challenge for West Coa

Combined imports at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles grew 2.5 percent in March compared to the same month a year ago, a sharp slowdown that included a 7.5 percent drop in import container volum

Virginia is dangling its 50-foot-deep harbor as a fisherman dangles a lure.

Having weathered seven years of environmental challenges and the worst economic downturn in the history of containerization, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are ready to grow.

Gulf Coast ports have long been underserved in the main east-west trades, but are counting on their access to the Midwest and the South’s growing population to attract new carrier services.

Container volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach increased modestly in February compared to last year, with the Chinese New Year celebration taking a toll on imports from Asia.

UPDATED MARCH 11 AT 4:55 P.M. EST

U.S. West Coast ports started 2011 off with a bang, with total container volume in January up 13 percent over last January.

Combined containerized imports through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 13 percent in January over the same month a year ago, extending the strong recovery pace at the nation’s large

They are both good ol’ boys from the Southeast who returned to native ground after years afield to take on new jobs a little more than a year ago running the two biggest ports in the South Atlan

There’s been no shortage of argument and legal battling over the clean-trucks programs at Southern California’s ports, but there’s no dispute that the program has worked remarkably w

The Port of Seattle had a banner year in 2010, with containerized imports increasing 46.6 percent, containerized exports up 19.3 percent and total international containers up 34.9 percent.

The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority is slashing its request for a federal rail program loan to $83.7 million from an earlier $553 million, in a bid to lock in the federal credit to help rest

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and APL launched a three-year trial of a seawater scrubber technology that promises significant reductions in harmful emissions from the auxiliary engines of co