Port News

Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa Port is accelerating its expansion of capacity.

A U.S. federal mandate requiring truck drivers to use electronic logging devices by the end of next year won’t necessarily be the harbinger of a long-anticipated “capacity crunch.”

An 11-year high tide combined with beach erosion to shut down South America’s busiest port and cast doubt on plans to dredge deeper so the port can handle larger ships.

The South Carolina Ports Authority has ordered 12 rubber-tire gantry cranes for use at Charleston’s Wando Welch terminal.

It took years longer than expected, but CMA CGM is on its way to transforming the container transshipment terminal in Kingston, Jamaica, into a regional powerhouse.

Shippers are welcoming a Russian government plan that could save them thousands of dollars and up to a week in transit time.

Eurokai’s first-half profit surged, but the leading pan-European container terminal operator warned the industry faces an uncertain future.

With ample room for expansion, Hoegh Autoliners chooses the Texas port for U.S. ro-ro imports and exports.

Rotterdam dockers have voted in favor of an agreement on job security in the container sector.

The reign of container terminals as profit leaders in supply chains is under pressure.

The world’s No. 2 container maker, slumped to a loss in the first half of 2016.

The congestion that crippled West Coast ports in 2015 temporarily derailed the progress in reducing pollution at the Port of Long Beach.

Jacksonville company to handle Army work at Sunny Point, North Carolina.

The U.S. federal government, with the help of shippers and others, is trying to come to grips with how to improve port productivity.

Cheaper production and material costs and sagging demand have contributed to the decline.

China's Zhuhai port is banking on increased trade with Pakistan and South America to help it more than double container traffic.

Hutchison Port Holdings expects to open a second container terminal in Pakistan by October.

LA-LB terminal operators decide to individually negotiate hosting arrangements with chassis-leasing companies.

U.S. marine terminals and vessels handling dangerous bulk goods or carrying more than 1,000 passengers have been given a two-year deadline to electronically verify Transportation Worker Identification Credentials.

Pasha Automotive Services has launched a car-carrier service to the Port of San Francisco.

JNPT is the first major, or public, port to take advantage of a new policy under the Sagar Mala infrastructure development program.

Terminal operators and chassis providers spar over cause of equipment shortages in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Cosco Shipping Ports is tipped as a likely frontrunner in the bidding for a tender to build and operate a third container terminal at the southern Spanish port of Algeciras.

Container throughput at China’s main ports rebounded in July after a poor first half of the year.

Authorities at the Port of New York and New Jersey are scrutinizing trucks bought under a program that awards grants to replace older, polluting drayage vehicles.

Cosco Shipping Ports appears to be bucking the trend of poor throughput growth reported by major terminal operators so far this year.

Logistics property developer GLP has entered into a long-term agreement with box-maker China International Marine Containers.

APM Terminals Pipavav, or Gujarat Pipavav Port, did as much as a port could ask to increase its traffic in the first fiscal quarter but fell short.

DP World’s profit surged in the first half and the global container terminal operator said it will continue to outpace market growth.

The Chinese Olympic team wasn’t the only group of visitors from the manufacturing powerhouse in Brazil this month.

The decision follows Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims’ attack on port privatizations in the country.

Show-cause petition by equipment lessors charges LA-LB proposed chassis services fee violates Shipping Act.

The Georgia Ports Authority has extended its five-year agreement with Consolidated Chassis Management’s South Atlantic Chassis Pool.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust shippers are claiming that container line charges are eroding the benefits of direct port delivery services.

Hamburg has finally pulled out of the container slump.

Beneficial cargo owners are lauding a peak-season program of flex and late gates.

Ports of Auckland want to avoid bad blood that spurred industrial actions at Australian ports.

Container line faces sharp pressure to boost its cashflow.

Private terminal operators in India, especially those at major public ports, are extremely peeved that they have been shut out of the process tied to providing the verified gross mass, or VGM, of export containers to shippers.

Managing the flow of trucks through the terminals at Vancouver and Montreal, Canada’s two largest ports, is a challenge for everyone involved with the process.