Port News

Shippers at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust are preparing for another service levy as India’s biggest container handler rolls out more ease-of-doing-business initiatives.

India is prioritizing dozens of last mile port-rail connectivity projects to speed up cargo evacuation and help address chronic landside congestion problems at its ports.

When the U.S. ban on trade with Cuba is lifted, plans are in place to transform Cuba’s Mariel container terminal into a major transshipment hub that would serve Gulf of Mexico ports.

Fast growing apparel trade is keeping South Asia container volumes well above the global average.

The port of Tanjung Pelepas is planning billions of investments to aid in its quest to become a premiere Southeast Asia transshipment hub.

Shippers using South America's busiest containe port dodged two bullets.

Shippers are OK with paying an extra to help fund night gates at the Port of Oakland.

Officials also credited industry organizations’ communication about the new rules and regulatory approval of a common approach by major container lines and six ports.

A new market friendly government in Brazil is keen to get U.S. investment for infrastructure.

There are no reports of disruption at Europe’s three largest container ports Friday as the SOLAS rule took effect.

New direction for trucker-owned chassis cooperative.

U.S. ports could tap billions in funding from Volkswagen’s settlement with the federal government and Californian authorities on emission violations.

China Cosco Shipping says the Greek government is not living up to its side of the bargain in the deal they struck for the port of Piraeus.

Both sides say they're still interested in an early deal, but talk of a 10-year contract has cooled.

Oakland's fiscal 2017 budget emphasizes capital projects.

“It’s not as bad as it was, I’d put it that way.”

Truck turn times at Cochin Port should improve greatly because of a new technological initiative rolled out by the port authority.

No disruption or delays are expected at the Port of New York and New Jersey Friday, when the new International Maritime Organization SOLAS rule kicks in.

The Port of Oakland has offered its executive director a new contract.

Imports at the Port of New York and New Jersey fell in May compared with the year before.

The new rule’s rollout is just days away, but guidance from operating ports, carriers, terminal operators and nation states has been variable and prone to change.

All six terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey will offer weighing services to shippers that don’t provide verified gross mass declarations needed to meet the SOLAS rule.

Berth congestion at the Port of Yangon has eased, but congestion in container yards remains a serious problem.

Shippers and ocean carriers using Bangladesh’s main gateway port of Chittagong have been battling heavy congestion for the past few weeks.

Cosco Shipping Panama on Sunday made the first commercial transit of the Panama Canal’s new locks.

The larger locks of the Panama Canal open on Sunday, but what impact will they have on global trade and container shipping?

The Port Newark Container Terminal in the Port of New York and New Jersey has revised its policy on how it will meet verified gross mass requirements.

The Port of Philadelphia will accept the first shipment of cars from a new Kia facility in Mexico.

A Baltimore International Longshoremen’s Association local responsible for a three-day 2013 strike will return to local control.

The 2M Alliance plans to shift one of their Asia-to-U.S. East Coast services to the newly expanded Panama Canal.

A new bill introduced in the California legislature aims to spur the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex to revamp its PierPass system.

Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service is investigating the country’s leading terminal operators over price-fixing allegations.

Antwerp Port Authority announced the appointment of the previous head of Belgium’s national electrical company as its new chief executive officer.

Officials at North Carolina’s Port of Wilmington are betting on calls from a Latin American service to boost container traffic after less-than-stellar business this year.

Software glitches continued to plague terminal gates at the Port of Charleston’s Wando Welch Marine Terminal Thursday.

The projects are part of a long-term government program to more than double the country’s overall port capacity.

The port of Rotterdam will introduce a “paperless” transfer of containers between its major terminals.

“We are getting a good handle on it and today is much better,” Jim Newsome, president and CEO of the South Carolina Ports Authority, told JOC.com Wednesday. “We will return to our normal high standard of operation shortly.”

APM Terminals is aiming to integrate automation across all its cargo-handling operations.

DP World is upgrading its Nhava Sheva (India) Gateway Terminal, or NSIGT, at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.