Port News

The volume of laden import containers through the port of Savannah surged to a record for August.

Although the rate of decline in Russia’s container trade slows, a dispute over pricing for container-handling services is clouding the medium- and long-term outlook for the trade.

The Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, is studying the feasibility of a new terminal that would handle breakbulk and bulk cargoes.

The Port of Melbourne will have new owners for the next 50 years after a $7.3 billion bid was successful.

“Cost, consistency and capacity will determine the gateways through which Asian imports enter the US."

The International Longshoremen’s Association is refusing to load Hanjin Shipping containers aboard ships or allow Hanjin boxes to leave US East and Gulf Coast terminals.

The humanitarian aspect to the Hanjin Shipping collapse was highlighted by an Australian judge who ordered the carrier to address the payment of the crew of the Hanjin California.

Ongoing slowdowns by Brazilian customs officials at the port of Santos are set to get worse.

Peak season finally arrives in the trans-Pacific.

The intensity of industrial real estate activity around the Georgia port underscores the strong demand nationally for logistics properties as well as shipper implementation of long-term plans to use Southeast versus West Coast ports to access inland markets.

A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday denied a motion by several fuel and towing companies to lift the prohibition on them seizing ships operated by Hanjin Shipping.

Billed as the “Mid-American Arc,” the GPA’s rail-focused initiative will allow the port to better serve markets from Atlanta to Memphis, St. Louis, Chicago, and the Ohio Valley.

Hongkong International Terminals has tried to shine a positive light on its role in the chaotic aftermath of Hanjin Shipping’s collapse following harsh shipper criticism.

Despite strong steel and project shipments in several ports, general cargo volume on the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System during the first half of the system’s 2016 navigation system.

The outlook for overall container trade growth, and particularly transshipment, is bleak.

The first barge to sail in a new cross-harbor service designed to increase productivity in the Port of New York and New Jersey will embark Thursday.

The proposed block exemption for liner shipping in Hong Kong is off for public consultation.

New Orleans has become the latest US port to launch a program to help drayage truck owners finance replacement of older vehicles with newer, less-polluting models.

The port says the new service could boost traffic by 30,000 TEUs per year.

The South Korean port of Gwangyang is doing all it can to ensure that cargo handling continues as smoothly as possible in the chaos that Hanjin Shipping’s fall into bankruptcy spawned.

Acquisition of C&V Trucking adds drivers, terminal in Southern New England, and helps carrier optimize network for hour-of-service compliance.

The Port of Charleston and the state of South Carolina over the next decade will spend a combined $2.2 billion to handle New Panamax ships.

India’s top port is continuing to work intensely to improve productivity after a tumultuous 2015.

The second of four Hanjin Shipping vessels stuck off the US West Coast has been given permission to berth at the Port of Los Angeles.

The new Inland Port Dillon will build on the momentum of South Carolina's first inland operation in Greer.

The former chief operating officer of CMA CGM America will head operations at the Georgia Ports Authority.

Global container terminal operators are changing their strategies in response to a “perfect storm” that is squeezing their profit margins.

Lax oversight by regulators has made it possible that maritime workers with criminal backgrounds are working at US ports.

The Port of Houston Authority is exploring the possible use of an innovative technology that would move containers to and from port terminals.

Groups like the Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness have found a place in the spotlight in recent months as the US government has shown a keener interest in port productivity.

A South Korean bankruptcy court has approved the use of $10 million by Hanjin Shipping to unload four of its stranded ships in US waters, a US bankruptcy court in New Jersey heard Friday.

Global Ports’ container traffic slumped in the first half.

Jon Slangerup has resigned from his position as Port of Long Beach CEO.

No movement of Hanjin ships at US ports is expected until a bankruptcy court in New Jersey rules on protection, possibly on Friday.

The volume of loaded containers imported through the Port of New York and New Jersey fell in July for the fifth consecutive month.

One of the largest container depots at the Port of New York and New Jersey has begun accepting empty containers of bankrupt Hanjin Shipping.

After devastating flooding forced the closure of South America’s largest port and cast doubts on the viability of dredging plans so it can handle mega-ships, one consultant thinks he has come up with a solution.

ECT, a leading Rotterdam terminal operator, has slashed charges for releasing containers unloaded from ailing Hanjin Shipping’s vessels.

Iran’s ports are clearly benefitting from the relaxation of international sanctions on a tonnage basis year-over-year, though those gains have yet to materialize for the container trade.

India’s major state-owned ports booked healthy growth in container volumes in August.