Port News

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is seeking shipper and trade support as it gets ready for a final decision on its truck toll.

Laden containerized imports in Long Beach increased in June as the second-largest U.S. port transitions to the summer-fall peak-shipping season.

U.S. containerized imports should slightly rise over the second half of 2016.

A group of U.S. customs brokers and freight forwarders is calling on the federal government to help pool marine terminal data.

A rise in imports has driven up the volume of loaded 20-foot-equivalent units moving through Mexican ports this year despite a slow-moving economy.

The city of New Orleans is again exploring the sale of the port’s switching railroad.

The recent opening of the expanded Panama Canal is shaking up the deployment pattern of container ships.

Mario Cordero reacted quickly to an announcement of a traffic mitigation fee increase at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.

The purchase would boost the Australian presence of the parent company of China’s leading state-owned terminal operator, China Merchants Holdings (International).

Hyundai Merchant Marine plans to deploy six ships with capacities of 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units on an existing Asia-U.S. East Coast service via the enlarged Panama Canal.

India is scouting for U.S. investment and technology for its infrastructure development program.

The successful arrival and departure Monday night of the Hammonia Venetia at the Port of Tuxpan, the first ever ship to dock there, ushered in what could be a fierce fight among Mexican ports on the Gulf Coast.

A U.S. trade group has launched its own online portal to boost efficiency in the drayage sector.

There's more good news for the Narendra Modi-led government that has made port development a high priority.

A testament to the port’s efforts to expand its capabilities is the welcoming of the largest container ship to call the Port of Wilmington this past Tuesday.

Senior politicians in Kerala state, where a greenfield deep-sea transshipment port similar to Enayam is already under development, have expressed opposition to the recently approved Enayam project.

No significant impact experienced by ports due to "hour of silence" action by dockers.

A league of U.S. lawmakers are not content with the roughly 4 percent of import containers screened under the current system.

The cargo on this first train to call at the $100-million rail facility at the former Oakland Army Base was originally destined for Canadian ports.

This week’s arrival of the largest ship ever to dock at the Port of New York and New Jersey is bringing into focus the challenges the port faces in adapting to an era of fewer, but larger ships.

Stevedores from the Sindicato dos Estivadores do Santos union, known as Sindestiva, carried out a 24-hour stoppage.

The Department of Transportation plans to award 18 grants totaling $600 million to 16 states via the Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects program.

U.S. East and West Coast ports are preparing for a planned hour-long work stoppage.

A joint venture will seek customers for a planned eastern version of Prince Rupert.

"It is unprecedented that unions and companies have succeeded in coming to this agreement despite the market being under such pressure,” the port authority said.

“Currently, all of India’s transshipment traffic gets handled in Colombo, Singapore and other international ports," the government said.

The introduction of cross docking at Tecon Santos will create savings for shippers using the terminal.

The sale, which was agreed in April, hit a hitch last week after Cosco raised concerns that the Greek government had changed the terms of the deal.

Containerized imports through U.S West Coast ports dipped slightly in May.

“This acquisition reflects our confidence in the Danish market and our goal to expand our Scandinavia profile,” said Joe Nicklaus Nielsen, vice president and head of port Investments at APM Terminals.

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.