Port News

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has struggled to increase the share of rail used to get containers out of its facilities despite a slew of efforts to do so.

Texas port is preparing for increase in plastic resin exports.

Container volumes at India’s major public ports are continuing to grow at a healthy pace thanks to capacity upgrades and productivity improvements.

New double-stack train services connecting Pipavav with northern hinterland points powered the year-over-year growth in shipments at the port.

The port of Liverpool on Friday officially inaugurated a new deep-sea container terminal as it works to create a new ocean trading gateway to re-jig the national supply chain.

Container throughput at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust only inched up in the first seven fiscal months through October.

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.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and DB Cargo have agreed to develop a joint-venture hub at Monfalcone to support European vehicle manufacturers’ exports to the Mediterranean and Asia.

Discussions between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association about a possible extension of the West Coast waterfront contract apparently ended on a positive note.

The steady brew of labor unrest at the port of Santos is hitting Brazilian coffee exports.

Weak market conditions and liner network changes contributed to a 28 percent year-over-year fall in third-quarter underlying profit at APM Terminals.