North American ports

The Port of Houston is losing a preposition and gaining a new marketing name.

Container-on-barge service supplies chemical exporters with empty boxes.

October was an especially strong month for Los Angeles-Long Beach.

A pilot project at the Port of Los Angeles will enable members of the supply chain to plan operations 10 to 14 days in advance of vessel arrival.

Heavy pieces move through several Lakes ports.

Agricultural exporters will have access to extended gate hours in Seattle-Tacoma until Dec. 2 thanks to financial support from the Northwest Seaport Alliance to help fund flex, night and weekend gates.

US containerized importers will turn up the heat in the last two months of 2016.

Texas port is preparing for increase in plastic resin exports.

The Port of Long Beach will chip away at the backlog of empty Hanjin Shipping-leased containers in Southern California that has built up since the container line declared bankruptcy on Aug. 31 when a ship calls to pick up some of the empties.

A solid performance by the Northwest Seaport Alliance in September and year to date indicates that Seattle and Tacoma may have regained regional market share from the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert.

Officials at the Port of New York and New Jersey hope a record monthly volume of rail cargo is just the start of the payoff from years of intermodal investment that seeks to give the port a competitive edge as ever-larger ships arrive on the East Coast.

Hoegh Autoliners subsidiary steps up competition for Southeast US cargo.

The tightrope that California ports must walk in balancing the commercial needs of their private-sector tenants with the demands of state and local environmental regulators played out last week at events in Oakland and Los Angeles-Long Beach.

A New Jersey legislator said he will likely drop a plan to charge beneficial cargo owners a fee in an effort to cut drayage pollution at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Wilmington has regained its ability to tap Asian imports after the 2M Alliance of Maersk Line and Mediterranean Co. plugged a hole at the North Carolina port caused by the collapse of Hanjin Shipping.

Credit agency Fitch Rating has given an AA- rating to two Port Authority of New York and New Jersey consolidated bonds, saying the authority's outlook is “stable.”

The US Maritime Administration will provide $4.64 million in “marine highway” grants for five existing or proposed container-on-barge services.

Maher Terminals and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have agreed to settle an eight-year-long legal dispute.

As good as Los Angeles and Long Beach are in attracting strong demand, they must contend with the fractured nature of 15 million TEUs being spread out over 13 terminals.

US ports could be an unexpected beneficiary of the historic settlement between the US government and German automaker Volkswagen.

CSX Transportation and Ports America agreed to the hand-over in January.

After years being bandied about, a planned $3 billion container terminal on the Georgia-South Carolina border took a major step forward last week when the US Army Corps of Engineers formally began its review of the project.

Multiple calls by large vessels on certain days of the week, known as vessel bunching, are straining the equipment and labor resources at US ports and presenting a growing threat to productivity at container terminals.

Precariously low West Coast vacancy rates for warehouse and distribution space are sending a stark message to shippers: Expect to pay even more to carry your goods, or rework your containerized supply chains.

Cargo interests can be assured of stability at Northern California's Port of Oakland.

Hanjin Shipping’s failure put a noticeable dent in US import volumes.

A Hanjin vessel released from arrest at Panama is one of three stopping at the Port of New York and New Jersey to deliver long-awaited cargo to the port in a four-day stretch.

TraPac plans to nearly double the size of its marine terminal at the Port of Oakland.

The Savannah River channel reopened for commercial traffic Wednesday.

Southern California’s landmark “pool of pools” in which three equipment providers share more than 72,000 inter-operable chassis could be improved.

The postponement is the latest road-bump to a somewhat controversial program aimed at smoothing the peaks and valleys of truck traffic flows.

US exports may be finally on track for growth after two down years.

Ports from Miami to Hampton Roads resumed cargo operations Monday.

Peak season 2016 has finally arrived, and it looks like it will be short but sweet.

Seattle and Tacoma, which since last year have operated under the Northwest Seaport Alliance, rank fourth in the US as a port complex, but that could change if it continues to lose cargo.

For years, ports have pushed to ensure that all Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund collections are used for dredging and not diverted to other uses.

The port of Brunswick is aiming to become the top US port for vehicles.

Hurricane Matthew has disrupted vessel traffic and closed ports at Caribbean hubs and in Florida as the killer storm moves north.

Nearly 10 percent of container traffic at the Northwest Seaport Alliance has migrated to off-peak hours since night gates began.