Port News

APM Terminals Pipavav, or Gujarat Pipavav Port, has completed an expansion program to boost its container-handling capacity.

A mega-fireboat is dedicated to protect mega-ships in Long Beach.

The largest container terminal in the Northwest Seaport Alliance has stated its position on SOLAS VGM generation.

The Port of Virginia has closed its Virginia International Gateway terminal to inbound truck traffic.

Container terminals in Brazil are hashing out pricing policies for enabling shipper compliance with an international container weight rule that enters force July 1.

Latin America’s demand for polyethylene, the key raw material for plastics production, is forecast to rise sharply.

CentrePort in the New Zealand capital of Wellington is pushing for a deepening project despite shipper recommendations.

Container volumes at India’s major public ports are growing steadily after a sluggish performance last fiscal year.

Containerized imports are expected to spike in the fall.

Motor carrier offers SOLAS-aimed weighing service, believed to be the first in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The Panama Canal Authority will determine whether its third set of locks where leaks were found are functional.

India’s port regulator has tentatively allowed Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust to charge tolls for truck cargo, but the matter is not yet settled.

Southeast Asia’s infrastructure is emerging as a major beneficiary of China’s Belt and Road initiative.

A new automobile shipping processing operation will open at a site adjacent to the Port of Baltimore.

DP World won a concession to develop a new port in Ecuador.

The Port of Oakland’s largest terminal operator is addressing looming congestion problems by preparing to charge a fee to support night gates.

The Suez Canal has extended and deepened discounts to container lines.

Drayage companies that service the Port of New York and New Jersey are once again squaring off with the Teamsters union.

An inter-terminal truck transfer system at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has had success.

For the first time, the JOC’s Port Productivity rankings analyze the global terminals making the greatest gains in berth efficiency.

The June 26 opening of the Panama Canal's expanded locks is an event U.S. Gulf ports have been preparing for.

Until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completes a study of the Arthur Kill turning basin, the size of some ships on trans-Pacific strings that call at the four big container terminals on the western side of the New York-New Jersey harbor could be limited.

Pressure is building on U.S. maritime regulators to quickly decide whether ports and container lines can hash out details on a strategy that could dramatically simplify exporters’ meeting the SOLAS container weight rule.

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a fiscal year 2016 and 2017 budget.

Philippine-based International Container Terminal Services Inc. has said when it will open a new terminal in the Congo, the first phase of a global expansion planned for this year.

The associations representing marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach and Oakland made an important announcement regarding their position on SOLAS.

The U.S. parcel giant expressed frustration, not only with the patchwork of guidance policies from individual nations, but from individual terminal operators as well.

Containerized imports and exports moving through West Coast ports declined in April on a year-over-year basis.

DP World has signed a “term sheet” with the government of Somaliland to invest hundreds of millions of dollars.

The government of Myanmar is searching for a solution to crushing congestion at the Port of Yangon.

Singapore-based terminal operator joins its global peers in offering container weighing services from July 1.

The Teamsters union is accelerating its efforts to organize harbor truck drivers in Southern California.

China’s Landbridge Group said it would invest in a major expansion of Australia’s Darwin Port.

Volume rose slightly at East Coast ports as traffic declined elsewhere.

Truck turn times at the Port of Long Beach's newly automated Long Beach Container Terminal are half those at other terminals in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.

Uncle Sam is seeking input from shippers, transportation providers and others on how to make U.S. ports more competitive.

The Port of Chennai said it has completed a dredging project to make it the deepest in India, but it is holding off on plans to build an outer harbor because of slumping traffic.

China Cosco Shipping and Hanjin Shipping have added a call at the Port of Mobile, Alabama.

Japan has agreed to provide financial support for a new international port development project in Indonesia.

The First Container Terminal is Russia's first container terminal to announce a plan to provide container weighing services.