North American ports

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