Port News

Jacksonville just posted its healthiest fiscal year on record with container traffic up roughly 6 percent year-over-year for the 12 months ending Sept. 30. Asian imports, the fastest-growing segment of the port’s business, achieved 19 percent year-over-year growth, according to port officials.

The goods-movement industry is good at digitizing its internal operations but bad at sharing data across industry lines.

Volumes are expected to increase this year.

Port says terminal will add 450,000 TEUs of annual capacity.

APL's intra-Asia service connects to China and South Korea.

Effort aimed at luring hinterland shippers away from trucks.

New deepsea transshipment port in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to be operational by 2020.

The Port of Mobile’s container terminal is benefiting from a double shot of new business, with the promise of more to come.

A new intermodal container transfer facility at the port of Jacksonville is positioning the Florida gateway to move more cargo to the US Midwest.

The length of time that containers sit idle at a marine terminal is critical because it affects the terminal’s cargo-handling productivity.

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

Maher Terminals has been acquired by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners III and a subsidiary of Japanese shipping company NYK Line.

The Philippines approved the start of work on a proposed container port in Cebu.

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

India’s biggest private port operator, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, is continuing to invest heavily in infrastructure upgrades at its flagship Mundra Port.

Rep. Duncan Hunter views PierPass as a model for other ports' efforts to extend gate hours.

The port of Hamburg consolidated its recovery from last year’s slump in container volume.

As shippers using the Brazilian port of Santos cope with delays from strikes by customs officers, they can take relief in the pleasant surprise that sorely needed maintenance dredging has unexpectedly resumed after several weeks of delays.

Scrap another 100 Panamax ships in the next couple of months if there is to be any rebalancing of supply and demand, Alphaliner warns.

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.

Chennai Port Trust has extended a plan to lower rail costs.

More larger ships expected as carrier alliances revise schedules.

Heavy pieces move through several Lakes ports.

Mexico is surging ahead with the dramatic expansion of the Port of Veracruz in preparation for the trade increase expected from the country’s growing manufacturing base.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone is striving to replicate the success it’s had at its flagship Mundra Port at its new southeastern gateway of Kattupalli.

Cameron Roberts, partner at Roberts & Kehagiaras, offers ways drayage and trucking companies can protect themsleves from financial and legal exposure to Hanjin Shipping assets.

Hong Kong received a timely and stark reminder of the precarious position of its container port via a study from one of its main private business schools.

Customs officers in the Brazilian port of Santos have struck for two days straight, testing the mettle of the new President Michel Temer.

Malaysia’s Westports said net profit rose in the third quarter on the back of strong revenue growth.

The government of India has released a “progress report” on its ambitious Sagar Mala investment program.

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.

Container traffic through Iran’s major ports is soaring, as concerns rise on whether President-elect Donald Trump will follow through with a campaign promise to scrap a nuclear deal with the country and reimpose sanctions.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust shippers have shorter gate hours to drop off and pick up cargo.

HHLA’s earnings edged slightly higher in the first nine months of the year.

The ports of Salvador and Suape are battling it out for Brazilian fruit exports.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone is amping efforts to pick up additional cargo as it nears completion of work to double capacity at its flagship Mundra port.

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

The Port of New York and New Jersey plans to create what it says will be the first state-of-the art crane training center at a port on the East Coast.