North American ports

No one’s expecting much for the economy during the fourth quarter, and prospects are dimming for freight volumes in the months ahead.

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution Corp, based in Elizabeth, N.J., opened an expanded non-intrusive inspection facility on Oct. 5.

Container volumes at West Coast ports inched up in August, with imports increasing slightly and exports decreasing a bit.

Mediterranean Shipping Co.

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles want to bring owners and users of chassis together to develop an operating model for the Southern California gateway.

An International Longshoremen’s Association local in Bayonne, N.J., voted to authorize a strike and send pickets to other ports if no contract agreement is reached before the ILA’s current

Hamburg Sud will stop providing chassis as part of its service to the ports of Portland, Seattle and Tacoma on Nov. 1.

James K. Lyons, long-time head of the Port of Mobile, returned to work on Friday after a temporary leave of absence.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah in August jumped 13.8 percent year-over-year to 270,610 20-foot-equivalent units, the port’s second-highest monthly TEU count.

Office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach have agreed to continue negotiating throughout the month of September.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah dropped 4 percent in July year-over-year and was down 2.6 percent from June, according to the Georgia Ports Authority.

Long-time port executives John Wheeler and Tom Swinson resigned from the Georgia Ports Authority on Tuesday, the GPA confirmed.

The tenure of Jerry A. Bridges as executive director of the Virginia Port Authority will end Oct. 31, the VPA Board of Commissioners announced late Thursday.

The Gulf ports of New Orleans, Mobile and Gulfport remained closed Thursday morning in the wake of Hurricane Isaac as port executives waited to assess port and ocean conditions before reopening.

Ports along the U.S.

Steel shipments through Gulf of Mexico ports have long been a two-way race between Houston and New Orleans. Now a third port has elbowed into the picture.

At a time when cargo volumes moving through the Port of Houston are expanding rapidly, a commission set up by the Texas legislature issued a report saying the Houston Port Authority has to make sweepi

Volume on the Port of New York and New Jersey’s ExpressRail intermodal rail service at marine terminals jumped 10 percent during the first half of 2012, the port authority reported.

Five East Coast ports got a leg up from the White House Wednesday when the Obama administration fast-tracked the seven big infrastructure projects they are planning in order to accommodate the bigger

The Bayonne Bridge will have enough clearance by the fall of 2015 to handle larger post-Panamax ships that will start calling East Coast ports through the expanded Panama Canal, the Port Authority of

The Port of Charleston got more good news last week when Hamburg Sud announced it will switch calls to Charleston from Savannah in mid-September by its service between Australia, New Zealand and the U

If the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach experience congestion during the peak-shipping season this fall, it won’t be due to insufficient infrastructure or marine terminal capacity, Southern C

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Virginia in May jumped by 12.6 percent to 178,584 20-foot-equivalent units from the same month last year.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach on Aug.

Marine terminal operators in Los Angeles and Long Beach reported Friday that cargo-handling was operating normally despite a contract dispute between office clerical workers and employers.

Contract negotiations between office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Southern California broke off after only two days of talks, opening up at least a theoretical possibility of picketing

Nineteen persons have been charged with participation in an international car theft ring that exported stolen vehicles through the Port of New York and New Jersey to various countries, primarily in We

China will begin to lift its ban on imports of Virginia's hardwood and softwood logs under a six-month pilot project, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Wednesday.

The volume of containers moving through the port of Savannah dropped by 4.2 percent in April from the same month last year and by the same amount from

Loaded containers moving through the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex increased 4 percent in April over April 2011, with imports up 3 percent year-over-year.

Shipping lines that call at U.S.

The Georgia Ports Authority handled a record 2.37 million tons of cargo in March, including 2.03 million tons of containerized cargo.

The Port of Virginia handled 166,719 twenty-foot-equivalent units of containers in March, an increase of 4.4 percent from a year earlier.

Container volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach bounced back strongly in March following a weak Februar

Refrigerated shipments are expected to grow along with the world’s middle class, but a representative for U.S.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Friday submitted to federal officials a formal request that the Bayonne Bridge "Raise the Roadway" project be considered for expedited review

A multimillion-dollar damage lawsuit against the International Longshoremen’s Association for an illegal work stoppage at the Port of New York and New Jersey has been dismissed and the dispute s

On a Friday in late February, the MSC Roma, a post-Panamax vessel capable of hauling 9,200 20-foot equivalent container units, steamed up the Savannah River to call at the Port of Savannah as part of