North American ports

Gulf Coast ports are hunkering down for the late-season storm Ida, with larger vessels set to take extra precautions and shipping brought to a standstill even as the tropical storm appears to be losin

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma reported mixed results in September container volumes although the trend lines are generally positive.

West Coast ports, and especially Los Angeles-Long Beach, will have to significantly improve their productivity and establish a reputation for reliability if they are to avoid a further loss of market

Having already lost about four percent of their market share of Asian cargo to Canadian and East Coast ports the past few years, and hoping to avoid a further diversion of cargo when the Panama Canal

Cargo volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in August increased over the previous month as the nation's two largest ports prepared for what is expected to be a short peak shipping season.

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles intend soon to eliminate a reporting requirement that cargo interests said was an unnecessary and costly administrative burden associated with the ports' clean-

The Houston area’s container-hauling drayage truckers will be both targets and beneficiaries of a revolving fund to finance clean-truck upgrades or purchases of new rigs, under a $9 million stim

Container volumes at West Coast ports in July lagged far behind last year's numbers.

Bolstered by a two-year track record of reducing pollution, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are finally positioned to move forward on billions of dollars of capital projects.

Marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach will maintain the PierPass traffic mitigation fee at the current level of $50 per TEU despite declining cargo volumes.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, long viewed as the most fee-focused ports in the country, will not initiate their proposed infrastructure fee anytime soon.

Port workers and truck drivers only need one Florida criminal background check instead of multiple, duplicate checks to work at three South Florida seaports.

Hard hit by a steep drop-off in coal shipments, which account for about half the port’s business during normal years, the Alabama State Port Authority announced today that it is laying off 86 do

Clean diesel and liquefied natural gas trucks now handle 52 percent of the containers moving through the Port of Long Beach, according to a study released by the port.

Harbor trucking companies in Los Angeles and Long Beach should meet the Jan.

The Port of Tampa is planning to tear down its ailing 35-year-old Harborside cold storage facility and concentrate on container cargo rather than breakbulk perishables.

Containerized imports at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles fell 22.3 percent in June, the steepest combined decline at the nation’s largest port complex since March, according to figures r

West Coast ports want Congress and the Obama administration to look beyond highways and bridges and include more funding for seaports in the next surface transportation act.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are working overtime to change their reputation among cargo interests as being the nation’s high-cost, business-adverse gateway for trade with Asia.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are on track to achieve many of the environmental goals in their clean-trucks program almost four years ahead of schedule, thanks to an aggressive strategy for

The Port of Long Beach can “live with” a court order limiting its ability to impose concession plans on the harbor trucking industry, but will fight to keep what it considers key elements

At a time when federal support for high-speed rail is grabbing headlines, the nation needs to pay more attention to its ports, says the head of one of the nation’s largest container ports.

Port of Long Beach employees must take off five days of work without pay by the end of the port’s fiscal year on Sept. 30, the port confirmed.

Containerized imports moving through the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex in April plunged 21.5 percent, demonstrating that the long-awaited turn-around in international trade is not on the immedia

The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

Fitch Ratings placed the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority bonds on "rating watch negative" due to declining container volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Two Pacific Northwest ports saw container volume fall in March but Seattle and Tacoma in Washington state also signs that the drop in box business had reached bottom.

Complying with the PortCheck and PierPass programs in Los Angeles-Long Beach is a cumbersome task that is motivating shippers and freight intermediaries to look to other gateways for their discretiona

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports hit its lowest level in seven years in February as the number of containers dropped below 1 million for the first time in half a

The Port of Seattle Commission unanimously approved a package of incentives for terminal operators that will provide $7 million in rent breaks and defer some payments in return for steps they take to

The docks that make up port cargo terminals, where millions of steel containers full of freight are transferred from ships to the shore or the other way around, are normally a death-defying place to b

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved an exhaustive environmental study, paving the way for the port’s first major capital improvement project in more than

A controversial provision of the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks provision hit a legal roadblock, but that actually may speed up the introduction of low-emission trucks at the LA-Long Beach harbor.

Terminal operators at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will eliminate one shift per week under the popular PierPass extended gates program, starting the week of April 6.

The unpopular clean-trucks fees that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began collecting in mid-February could end within a year if motor carriers continue to finance the purchase of environmenta

LOS ANGELES -- Importers and exporters who ship their cargo through Los Angeles-Long Beach during th

The Virginia Port Authority said container cargo moving through the Port of Virginia during the fisc

MIAMI - A hold was put on more import cargo as the Port of Miami continues to clear thousands of con

Ports these days know there's more to capturing steamship lines than marine facilities alone.

The arrival here this week of the Nedlloyd Lines vessel Rouen inaugurated the first-ever roll-on rol