North American ports

Trade between Charleston and the United Kingdom is growing faster than trade between the United States and the United Kingdom as a whole.

Increased volume has strained capacity at the region’s ports.

Will the vote be remembered as a narrow, ultimately inconsequential act, or a turning point premised on a message to the union leadership that something needs to change?

US containerized imports are forecast to reach the highest-ever monthly total in August.

Vehicle shipments through the Port of Portland continue to rise at double-digit clip.

The New Jersey-based company told the US Federal Maritime Commission that the port authority has asked it to vacate warehouse space, not only at an expense to business but to it shipper customers.

Removal of old transit sheds will provide more open space for cargo.

Change takes effect on Oct. 2. Longer hours at Barbours Cut to be phased in later.

Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland may be able to meet regulatory goals for zero-emission cargo-handling equipment at a fraction of the cost initially forecast.

Seaboard, which specializes in Caribbean, Central America, and South American trades, is Miami’s largest carrier.

Truckers in Los Angeles-Long Beach are bracing for tougher times ahead.

The subject of a contract extension was first raised in March 2015 at the JOC’s annual TPM Conference.

Port CEO Brandy Christian called the agreement a “win-win”.

Portland will have a better idea of the types of container business it can attract back to the port by year-end.

The projects would allow shipments to avoid routes that are routinely highly congested, and can take hours to complete on a bad day.

Port officials told JOC.com they aim to use the new CSX Transportation double-stack rail service to win importers and exporters using ports in other states.

Robust demand is expected to push US poultry export volume higher this year.

When it comes to poultry, the Port of Savannah has plenty to crow about.

Pacific Northwest ports believe the true competitive edge will come from faster cargo velocity at the terminals.

Clean-air update would result in estimated $7 billion to $14 billion in extra costs in Los Angeles-Long Beach while expanding even further the ports' leading emissions reductions among US ports.

APM Terminal (APMT) in the Port of New York and New Jersey says it will have mostly recovered from the cyber attack on Maersk by the end of the week.

A 13,200 TEU vessel that is the largest ever to enter the Port of New York and the US East Coast passed under the newly-elevated Bayonne Bridge Monday afternoon.

Terminal consolidation on the US West Coast is set to be much slower than carrier consolidation.

The shuttering of many plants for three weeks and more, opposed to the traditional break of one or two weeks, bodes poorly for the country’s third-largest export and its second-largest import.

“What information is available today? What information do you need to act?”

It’s the latest of several packaging operations springing up around US ports and inland point.

The changing landscape for international intermodal rail reflects the fierce competition among US East Coast ports to attract away from the West Coast discretionary cargo into and out of points east of the Ohio Valley.

Jacksonville needs to deepen its harbor in order to regularly handle the larger ships from Asia able to traverse the Panama Canal’s new locks.

The superintendent organizing efforts come at a sensitive time for the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association.

Trucker frustration builds at delays at APM Terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Lower-than-expected container volumes eliminate congestion issues at West Coast ports before July 4-5 closures.

Lengthy truck lines continued outside APM Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey Monday on the third day of operations since a massive cyberattack last week on parent company Maersk Group shut down the facility.

French line CMA CGM has offloaded most of its stake in its LA terminal for almost $1 billion.

Operations are finally beginning to return to normal at Pier 400 in the Port of Los Angeles.

Spike in trans-Pacific spot rates may be due to GRI.

The port is in the midst of a $1 billion expansion and renovation program.

A coalition of groups is calling on the Port of New York and New Jersey to revive a plan to ban all trucks with engines from 2007 or older from the port, expressing health concerns.

The passage under the newly raised Bayonne Bridge in the Port of New York and New Jersey of half a dozen ships that could not have made it before the raising of the bridge marks the opening of a new era for the port.

The $42 million North Gate project is part of a larger investment the Virginia Port Authority has undertaken to improve productivity for shippers.

Renovation of the port’s low-water ro-ro dock follows the completion in 2016 of a two-year, $13 million rebuilding of the main dock at the Tulsa-Catoosa port.