Port News

After recording sluggish growth last fiscal year amid a weaker global economy, India’s major public ports got off to a healthy and promising start in fiscal 2016 and 2017.

Another terminal operator will offer container weighing services to help shippers comply with VGM rules.

The government of India is looking to automate gate transactions at the country's major ports.

The government of Pakistan is introducing extensive long-term tax concessions for Chinese companies operating at the port of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea.

Redevelopment of the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 5 moved forward this week.

The Port of Hamburg’s container traffic shrank in the first quarter as breakbulk traffic stalled.

The operator of Portland’s only container terminal is confident that liner services will once again call at Oregon’s only container port.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, India’s biggest public container handler, is aggressively working to lure more truckload freight to the rails.

Throughput growth at China’s main ports increased at a slower rate in April than in March.

India and Iran on Monday entered into a formal investment agreement for Chabahar port, the first such agreement involving an Iranian port and international backers since the lifting of sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program.

Strike actions that paralyzed France last week have cut off rail access to the port of Le Havre.

Several world regions seem to have planned much more container terminal capacity than needed for the coming decades.

The world's container supply chain remains concerned at a lack of clarity around the SOLAS verified gross mass ruling.

The major China export gateway of Yantian will offer container weighing services to help shippers comply with the SOLAS container weight rule.

Liability, costs and technology are just a few of the questions.

The Port of Jacksonville is bullish on its growing Asian import trade, but success hinges on keeping a key Asian terminal operator in town.

Allegations by the mayor of Newark that union hiring practices at the Port of New York and New Jersey promote racial, ethnic and gender inequity have attracted federal scrutiny.

The Panama Maritime Authority has reached an agreement with a Chinese consortium on Panama's first post-Panamax capable container terminal.

Service upgrades and additions were not enough to propel Pipavav Port to growth in the last fiscal year.

The Port of Charleston has changed its mind on its previously announced SOLAS policy.

It is unclear if the container trade has a future in Portland.

Container lines and U.S. ports have asked the U.S. maritime regulator for permission to get together to craft a common strategy for dealing with SOLAS.

The 2014 to 2015 congestion crisis at U.S. West Coast ports exacerbated the shift of Asian imports to East and Gulf Coast ports.

Congressional pressure is intensifying on stakeholders in the containerized supply chain to find an agreeable response to the SOLAS rule.

Throughput at Cosco Pacific grew overall despite uneven performances throughout its portfolio of container terminals.

Containerized imports and exports moving through the Northwest Seaport Alliance ports of Seattle and Tacoma increased in April.

Cuba’s Mariel container terminal has already planned its transformation into a major transshipment hub after the U.S. trade embargo ends, according to TC Mariel General Director Charles Baker.

Although port authorities and trucking organizations in Oakland and Los Angeles-Long Beach have been leading the way in implementing global-positioning satellite and Bluetooth technologies to increase cargo velocity, ports and truckers on the East and Gulf coasts are anxious to follow. Technology products are expected to surface at other ports in short order.

India’s role in the development of the free trade port of Chabahar in southeastern Iran will be high on the agenda when Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins a two-day visit to the country next week.

Throughput at Cai Mep International Terminal, the APM Terminals facility in Vietnam’s Ba Ria‐Vung Tau province, southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, skyrocketed in the first quarter.

The looming SOLAS summer deadline has left many shippers wondering where and how they will be able to obtain certified VGMs.

Latin America and Caribbean terminal operators will face different national rules regarding the SOLAS container weight verification rule, adding another layer of difficulty to an already tricky process.

Los Angeles-Long Beach exceptionalism has created unique challenges for the largest U.S. port complex.

The largest trade group representing drayage companies in the Port of New York and New Jersey has created its own web-based forum to connect truckers looking to make “street turns.”

The Brazilian port sector’s worst nightmare has become a reality with the government’s announcement that the Special Ports Ministry, or SEP, would be subsumed by the Transport Ministry as part of a cost-saving initiative.

France’s ports, railways and airports face shutdown.

If the container terminals in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach do not automate, they will soon be unable to handle their growing volumes.

India is accelerating its drive for private investment in its ports and maritime sectors.

With less than two months before the SOLAS container-weighing rule takes effect, questions of the strength and scale of the enforcement’s bite in the U.S. are mounting.

APM Terminals has added additional ports to the 29 where it said it would be offering weighing services to enable SOLAS compliance.