North American ports

Because North Carolina said it’s been weighing containers to meet Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules, the decision to provide container weights to help shippers meet the International Maritime Organization’s new SOLAS rule does not represent a change in operating procedures.

Two years after a celebrated return to New Orleans after a 40-year absence, fruit importer Chiquita may be leaving again — or maybe not, port officials say.

The Obama administration is looking to the private sector to meet a long-delayed 100 percent scanning mandate.

JOC.com examined changes in market share by analyzing data from PIERS, a sister product of JOC.com within IHS.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will soon complete a multiyear $2.1 billion project to deepen its channel to 50 feet but contemplates whether further work is needed.

Containerized imports at the Port of Los Angeles increased as trade flows in the trans-Pacific appear to be returning to normal seasonal patterns.

One of the big three providers of U.S. marine chassis is being sold to a new owner.

Terminal operators fear that weighing export containers with the precision that might be required under SOLAS could intensify gate congestion in the largest U.S. port complex of Los Angeles-Long Beach.

The first terminal at the Port of New York and New Jersey has announced how it will respond to the SOLAS container weight rule.

Containerized imports at the major U.S. gateways are projected to decrease modestly over the next six months.

The Virginia Port Authority has revised its position on the SOLAS container weight rule, the latest sign of how terminals and port operators are changing tactics.

Port Panama City plans to develop a breakbulk forest products terminal on a newly acquired waterfront tract at the U.S. Gulf Coast port on the Florida panhandle.

Mention the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor to International Longshoremen’s Association officials or port employers, and they're likely to react with a grimace, a groan or a pier-style expletive.

The New York Shipping Association and the International Longshoremen’s Association haven’t given up on their effort to dissolve the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.

The U.S. Coast Guard’s announcement last week that it wouldn't object to two alternative methods of verifying container weights set in motion a high-stakes game of chicken between carriers and exporters. It is also fueling a fight among ports seeking to present themselves as the most user-friendly to shippers struggling to comply with the new rule.

For the second consecutive year, no U.S. West Coast port achieved double-digit growth or even made the Top 10 fastest-growing ports among the JOC Top 25 North American container ports in 2015.

Container traffic at West Coast ports increased in the first quarter of 2016.

Containerized exports at the Port of Oakland increased in April.

The Georgia Ports Authority said Thursday it will be taking a new approach to the SOLAS container weight rule.

The Port of Baltimore is hoping a $425 million fix to a low-slung freight tunnel will help jump-start a surge in business.

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is levying the collective experience of the private sector to fight congestion at U.S ports.

The Port of Oakland is doing its part to reduce truck congestion with a subsidy program.

“The rails have taken a hands-off attitude when it comes to SOLAS, which, after all, is a maritime issue,” Larry Gross, a senior transportation analyst at FTR Associates, told JOC.com Tuesday.

The West Coast ports’ share of Asia imports heading into the United States was shrinking even before congestion nearly paralyzed ports from Long Beach to Seattle last year.

Ports will have to compete for business as never before over the next decade, Port of Long Beach CEO Jon Slangerup said.

Container traffic through the Port of New York and New Jersey fell in March.

The Port of Houston has announced how it will handle the SOLAS verified gross mass rule.

The Port of Charleston and its CEO James Newsome are emerging as mavericks in the increasingly heated debate over a global container weight rule.

Could U.S. freight volumes rise and overall economic growth slow?

A California Senate committee Wednesday approved legislation that will provide a partial tax exemption for terminal operators that purchase zero- or near-zero-emission cargo-handling equipment, expediting the progress California’s ports are making toward becoming the greenest in the world without significantly increasing the cost of shipping through the ports.

A local cold-storage provider near the Port of Oakland has decided to expand after seeing the results of the port's efforts to improve the movement of refrigerated products between the port and its warehouses.

Gary LaGrange will retire after 16 years as president and CEO of the Port of New Orleans.

The need to reduce truck congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has stakeholders looking at the feasibility of a number of options utilizing rail service.

A sharp turnaround in industrial real estate activity around the Savannah port underscores the white-hot demand nationally for logistics properties as well as shippers putting in place long-term plans to use Southeast versus West Coast ports to access the regional market.

Yildirim Holding is mulling investment in U.S. ports as the Turkish transport and industrial conglomerate pursues its bid to become a top 10 global terminal operator.

The Port of Charleston says it is in the final stages of tests to see whether the port can provide in-terminal container weighing services for shippers to comply with the new International Maritime Organization container weight rule that goes into effect this July.

OAKLAND, California — Agriculture exporter Capital Feed is increasingly capitalizing on intermodal rail access connecting its facility to the Port of Oakland, a transportation advantage that the port plans to press even further via a planned logistics center.

Global Container Terminal on the Jersey City-Bayonne, N.J. border closed mid-morning Thursday and will stay closed throughout the day, after a tractor-trailer struck two people standing alongside a line of trucks, killing a driver and injuring a second man.

The visionary Global Trade and Logistics Complex that will revolutionize the transfer of cargo between vessels and truck and rail transportation on the West Coast is taking shape in the middle of the Port of Oakland.