Port News

All of the ocean carriers using terminals at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust have begun issuing import delivery orders electronically, reducing wait times and easing congestion at India’s biggest container gateway.

Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa Port Container Terminal is preparing for another expansion next year in order to keep up with demand.

Automation is necessary to increase container throughput and truck and rail turn times at U.S. ports, speakers at the JOC Port Performance conference said.

Container ports need a fresh, no-holds-barred examination of ways to reduce variability that hobbles productivity, Ports America’s chief strategy officer said

Cambodia’s Phnomh Penh Autonomous Port will become a listed company on Wednesday after a successful initial public offering that saw 20 percent of its share capital sold to private investors.

Container throughput at India’s major ports inched up 1.83 percent year-over-year in the first eight fiscal months, as sluggish global demand dragged down volume growth at the country’s state-owned cargo gateways.

Creation of a centrally managed chassis pool at the Port of New York and New Jersey is awaiting an agreement on labor issues involving International Longshoremen’s Association jurisdiction over maintenance and repair.

Shippers using the jungle port facility of Chibatão, in Manaus, Brazil, face delays the rest of this week after two floating pontoons and two harbor cranes sunk into the Rio Negro following an accident during the early hours of Sunday morning.

Construction has begun on a 103.77 million reais ($27.63 million) entrance road into the port of Santos, Latin America’s largest container port.

The Massachusetts Port Authority has received a $333,185 federal grant to retrofit five rubber-tire gantry cranes at the Port of Boston with new diesel engines that will reduce air pollution.

The Hong Kong Liner Shipping Association is lobbying the Hong Kong government to increase the maximum height clearance limit for ships passing under a bridge that crosses the critical Ma Wan Channel.

Construction on India’s much-awaited Vizhinjam International Container Transshipment Terminal project began at the weekend with a ground-breaking ceremony attended by Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari, Kerala State Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and port developer Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani.

A shortage of land suitable for goods movement in proximity to Port Metro Vancouver threatens to restrict the growth of trade at Canada’s largest container port within 10 years, according to a study commissioned by the port.

Container volumes handled by West Coast ports were flat in October as the ports recorded a lackluster month while East Coast ports reported strong gains.

In Australia terms, Melbourne’s port is a heavyweight, liftings 2.6 million 20-foot-equivalent units annually, which is 36 percent of the country’s total container traffic.

The National Labor Relations Board Thursday affirmed the decision of an NLRB administrative law judge that International Longshore and Warehouse Local 8 in Portland engaged in coercive actions against terminal operator ICTSI during a 10-month period beginning in September 2012.

Roll-on, roll-off carrier Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has replaced its existing contract with the Port of Baltimore with a 30-year agreement that commits the company to serve the port through 2025.

Heavy volume has been causing long delays for trucks at the only major New York-New Jersey container terminal accessible to ships that are too tall to squeeze under the Bayonne Bridge.

North Adriatic ports should pool resources and develop an offshore terminal to allow mega-ship access, an Italian port official has said.

Employers in the Port of New York and New Jersey have hired 935 longshoremen, marine clerks and mechanics in the last 20 months and are working to add more, said John Nardi, president of the New York Shipping Association.

Container volume declines at Russia, Georgia and Ukraine seaports deepened in the third quarter while traffic at Bulgaria and Romania ports stayed virtually flat compared to the second quarter, according to a report from Russia shipping analyst Informall BG.

From a near-meltdown at U.S. West Coast ports to a wave of mergers and acquisitions, with hints of more in the container line industry, 2015 has been full of plenty of surprises.

Impeachment proceedings against Brazil President Dilma Rousseff and even her potential exit aren’t expected to derail the government’s port concession process, which is expected to raise 1.1 billion reais ($292.53 million) raised next week via public auction for four port terminals, according to maritime insiders.

As more terminal capacity comes online and volume remains muted, port operators along South America’s west coast, principally in Peru and Chile, are expecting competition for cargo to be fierce in 2016.

Nearly two weeks of heavy rains and unprecedented flooding have crippled supply chains and industrial activities in and around India’s southern port city of Chennai.

The U.S. Congress is finally moving forward on keeping a better track of port congestion, but how closely they track it, particularly in relation to unionized port negotiations, depends on details to be ironed out over the next two months.

The Port of Virginia’s chassis pool will implement a new system allowing beneficial cargo owners to be billed directly for chassis fees, and taking truckers and ocean carriers out of the middle of the billing process.

New intermodal terminals in Australia reflect the more holistic approach toward port capacity and productivity that some observers say will be needed as volumes grow and mega-ships discharge larger and larger loads of cargo.

Truckers using Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust will see faster turnarounds, as terminal operator DP World introduced a new automated gate system on Thursday.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust unveiled a new equipment upgrade plan in an attempt to further improve service levels at India’s biggest container gateway.

Hong Kong’s throughput woes could deepen if plans issued by a Shanghai government body for liberalizing cabotage in China come to fruition.

The Panama Canal Authority said a contractor has advised it will complete work next month on reinforcement of lock sills that failed tests and raised questions about the planned April opening of the canal’s expansion.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust saw throughput remain virtually static during November, as India’s busiest major, public container handler struggled to grow volumes amid the downturn in the global shipping market.

Shanghai International Port Group is on the hunt for investment opportunities in Europe as it looks to China’s national development strategy to grow in what it says are some very challenging years ahead for global shipping.

The future of the southern Brazil port of Itajai is once again in the balance as federal authorities refuse to release the urgently needed funding for emergency dredging to restore the 41 to 42.6-foot draft of the port following heavy rains from El Nino.

Seven out of 10 global shippers lack the visibility in their supply chains needed to prepare and respond to disruptions — whether they are port labor slowdowns, natural disasters or something else.

Construction of intermodal rail facilities and rebuilding of ship berths are the largest items in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s $175 million capital spending plan for its seaport unit during the coming year.

Krishnapatnam Port Container Terminal’s efforts to grow throughput received a push last week when Hyundai Merchant Marine via its Asia-Chennai Service made an ad-hoc call at the private, minor facility on India’s east coast as part of what the Korean carrier called a “market evaluation drive.”

The Port of Oakland is increasing the height of four ship-to-shore cranes so they will be capable of working the largest container ships now calling at U.S. ports, and even larger vessels in the future.

The Port of Wilmington, North Carolina, is using a newfound infusion of $35 million in annual state funds to expand its container facilities, dredge its harbor, and try to escape the shadow of its larger regional competitors.