North American ports

Frustrated by a lack of progress in contract negotiations with office clerical workers, the head of the group representing waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach urged the union to bring subst

Contract negotiations between office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach moved into a slower phase this week, as workers left picket lines and returned to their jobs am

Office clerical workers and waterfront employers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach said they would resume contract negotiations Wednesday.

Contract negotiations between office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach will resume on Wednesday, with representatives on both sides reporting that some progress was m

Waterfront employers are always relieved when the powerful International Longshore and Warehouse Union agrees to a new contract and guarantees West Coast ports six years of labor peace.

Office workers and waterfront employers on Thursday resumed negotiations for a new contract at terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach, slogging through the tedious process of closing out relatively minor

Just when importers and exporters were beginning to feel it was safe to ship through Los Angeles-Long Beach, office clerical workers at the nation’s largest container complex went on strik

Tensions increased in the strike by office clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports on Friday as the union picketed a third employer and withdrew its previous wage and benefits proposa

Cargo-handling operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were normal on Thursday as the waterfront arbitrator began taking testimony in a formal hearing on the validity of a strike by offi

Negotiations between striking office workers and terminal operators at the Los Angeles-Long Beach ports deteriorated at the end of the first week of the walkout, with the union refusing to budge on it

Negotiations through the Fourth of July weekend failed to win an agreement between striking office clerical workers and the employer’s association representing 14 marine terminals and shipping l

Negotiators for striking office clerical workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach and their employers bargained all day Saturday but made little progress toward a new contract.

The Port of Seattle’s program to get rid of older trucks reached its 200th scrapped vehicle this month, the port said.

Negotiators for striking office clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and the attorney representing their employers set negotiations for Friday night in hopes of ending the walkout.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were open for business Thursday as dock workers complied with an arbitrator's ruling that they must cross picket lines erected by

Office clerical workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach walked off their jobs and set up picket lines at the ports when contract negotiations broke down at midnight Wednesday.

With their contract set to expire at midnight Wednesday, office clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach authorized the leadership of the union to call for a strike at their discret

M.D. "Mike" Stolzman has been promoted to president of Pacific Harbor Line, the railroad that performs switching services at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Container volume at the ports owned by the Georgia Ports Authority jumped by 25.3 percent in May, making it six months in a row of double-digit increases.

The start of the peak-shipping season is still more than a month away, but marine terminal congestion in Los Angeles-Long Beach is mounting so rapidly that harbor truckers are in a state of panic.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach port area ranks first in a new index that rates the desirability of U.S. seaports for industrial development and investment.

When the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach sneeze, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority catches a cold.

Containerized import volume into Southern California ports jumped 18.3 percent in May, as the shipping recovery at Los Angeles and Long Beach picked up speed and retailers pushed more goods out of Asi

To small trucking companies working the ports in California, using independent contract drivers to haul containers creates a symbiotic relationship, giving owner-operators the freedom they prize and t

The clean-trucks program and other pollution-reduction measures slashed harmful diesel emissions at Los Angeles last year, according to the port's 2009 air emissions inventory.

When the Long Beach Harbor Commission this summer is presented with the final draft of the environmental impact report for replacement of the Gerald Desmond Bridge, the port staff anticipates approval

Work rules spelled out in contracts between owner-operator truckers and drayage companies may not provide the legal grounding to maintain the truckers’ status as independent contractors at U.S.

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma spent much of the past decade expanding their marine terminals and intermodal infrastructure.

The battle over who will drive the trucks in clean-air programs being rolled out at ports across the country is now being waged on three fronts — federal court in Los Angeles, a U.S.

The nation’s largest port complex hopes to benefit from what would be one of the largest loans ever made under a Federal Railroad Administration program for track system improvements.

Container volumes at West Coast ports followed an upward trend in April, with most of the ports reporting increases in imports and exports.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spent almost $80 million combined on incentives to get carriers and owner-operators driving clean diesel trucks.

For a few hours this month, Congress trained a spotlight on someone rarely noticed in Washington — the trucker who works the nation’s ports, hauling containers from docks to distribution p

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, which last year postponed the bidding process for the design and construction of a new container terminal in the former Philadelphia Navy Yard, is again seeki

The prospects for changing harbor trucking regulation in the United States rest with Congress, but groups fighting efforts to change federal law say the impact of any changes would hardly end at port

The oil spill still fouling the Gulf a few miles off the Louisiana Coast is not affecting vessel traffic.

Maersk Line formally announced Friday it will begin a pilot test of imposing a $10-per-container fee on U.S. export containers that do not arrive at their load ports starting on May 1.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach turned in another winning month in March, with container volume in Long Beach up 13 percent over March 2009.

Maritime industry consultant Jon DeCesare is waiting for executives in Los Angeles and Long Beach to start using the words “cargo friendly” when describing the role of their ports in the t

Container terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach have taken their lumps over the years because of congestion problems, but they have also been innovators in reducing gate delays through the Pier