North American ports

Georgia Ports Authority opened its expanded Mason Intermodal Container Transfer Facility at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today.

Hurricane damage to chassis has created equipment shortages that are hitting truckers with hours-long delays and demurrage costs at Port of New York and New Jersey marine terminals.

Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach came back strongly this fall after a slow period earlier in the year.

October was a down month for the Port of Los Angeles, with containerized imports declining 1.1 percent from October 2011 and export loads dropping 7.1 percent.

Contract talks between the Port of Portland and security guards at its container terminal that began this summer will reenter mediation on Nov. 16...

The Port of Virginia handled 175,330 20-foot-equivalent units in October, an increase of 1.5 percent from the 182,318 TEUs handled in September, and also up 1.5 percent year-over-year, the Virginia Port Authority announced today.

It wasn’t a pretty sight — and still isn’t. Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy knocked out the Port of New York and New Jersey, companies are still tallying damages and trying to get containers where they’re supposed to be.

The first shipments of Southern yellow pine logs to China from South Carolina and Virginia in more than one year left the Port of Charleston’s Wando Welch Terminal recently, as part of a pilot program...

To expedite the delivery of import loads affected by Hurricane Sandy, Maher Terminals and Port Newark Container Terminal extended hours this week.

The Port of Seattle Commission preliminarily approved its 2013 budget on Nov. 13.

Shippers this week are still struggling to recover import cargo that was bound for the Port of New York and New Jersey at the end of October when Hurricane Sandy forced inbound container ships to unload at other East Coast ports.

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to increase 5.9 percent, at 1.37 million 20-equivalent units, in November...

Omar Benjamin, executive director at the Port of Oakland, has notified the board of port commissioners that he is retiring from the position, effective immediately.

The Port of New Orleans set records for container traffic in 2012 and completed more than $100 million in new infrastructure projects...

All of the marine terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey had reopened by Friday after cleaning up and repairing the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, including all six container terminals, the three cruise terminals and the four auto-processing terminals.

North Carolina State Ports Authority today named Jeffrey E. Miles as its new deputy executive director for operations, by Tom Bradshaw, executive director.

The Maryland Port Administration and the Estonian Port of Tallinn signed a memorandum of understanding Nov. 7 to increase maritime business opportunities for both ports.

Expectations that exports will lead the U.S. economic recovery are increasing the burden on exporters and freight forwarders to update their internal compliance programs to abide by commercial regulations and security requirements.

The largest ship in the Port of Mobile’s history called at its APM Terminals Mobile facility today, the Alabama State Port Authority reported.

The Argentinian ambassador to the United States is optimistic that the decade-long U.S. ban on lemons from his country will end next year.

Container terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey will be open Tuesday, Nov. 6 — normally a longshoremen’s holiday for election day — as recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy continue.

After a brutal summer that saw exports to Asia soften and freight rates deteriorate steadily, trans-Pacific cargo volumes began to pick up in early October.

The U.S. Coast Guard reopened channels in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey on Friday for all commercial vessels....

The container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey suffered major damage on Monday night when the tidal surge driven by Hurricane Sandy flooded the facilities.

The Port of New York and New Jersey remained closed on Wednesday, while all other ports in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic reopened by Wednesday morning following the passage of Hurricane Sandy.

The signing by the U.S. Army Corps of the Record of Decision for the long-delayed Savannah Harbor Expansion Project is expected to give the port a leg up in its battle to preserve its place as the largest container port in the U.S. South Atlantic.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ordered the evacuation of all the maritime terminals in New Jersey on Monday as Hurricane Sandy move closer to landfall on Monday afternoon.

Seaports from New York to Virginia remained closed Monday as the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic braced for the huge hurricane that was slowly turning west and menacing the coastline.

As Hurricane Sandy moved slowly up the East Coast on Sunday, marine terminals, commuter rails and transit systems began shutting down.

Shippers will decide whether to shift their cargo routing from West Coast to East Coast ports when the Panama Canal expansion project is completed in 2015 based on the total delivered cost of the freight, transit time, intermodal options and ease of doing business with port authorities.