Port News

Slowdowns by container truck drivers over wage increases threaten to disrupt normal operations at the APM Terminals facility in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva).

Israel Ports Co. has published the first stage of an international tender for the operations of new container terminals to be built in Haifa and Ashdod, Israel.

The Port of New York and New Jersey today reported that traffic congestion throughout the port roadway system has affected the entire New Jersey port complex, particularly the southern Port Elizabeth entrance.

Total freight traffic for all ports in the U.K. in 2012 decreased 4 percent year-over-year to 501.2 million metric tons, according to the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport.

The West Coast Marine Terminal Operators Agreement today announced an 8.1 percent increase in the traffic mitigation fee at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., effective Aug. 19...

The opportunity for East Coast container ports to gain significant market share from their West Coast counterparts is over and unlikely to appear again, despite their growth expectations tied to the expansion of the Panama Canal, an outspoken supply chain analyst said Friday.

The Chennai Port Trust has cancelled a global tender to build and operate its long-planned container terminal project, dealing a serious blow to India’s port privatization program.

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report on the proposed deepening of Florida’s Port Everglades has said the project would improve safety and lessen delays...

Konecranes has received a $56 million order from the Port of Houston Authority for four super-post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes and three rubber-tire gantry cranes.

Maher Terminals has diverted three more ships from its terminal at the Port of New York and New Jersey to other marine terminals at Port Elizabeth, N.J., to be discharged.

Newly appointed Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero spoke with The Journal of Commerce, explaining how he envisions the agency potentially overhauling ocean transportation intermediary rules, promoting exports and assisting port authorities.

TCV Stevedoring Co., a Grup TCB subsidiary that moves goods at the Levante and Llovera docks in the Port of Valencia in Spain, has received its fourth super-post-Panamax crane...

Mexico’s port cargo traffic is expected to increase 80 percent to 508 million tons per year by the end of the government’s current six-year administration in 2018...

Hydrogen fuel cells may be technically feasible and commercially attractive as a “clean, quiet and efficient” power source for ships at berth, replacing onboard diesel generators.

Direct ChassisLink, an intermodal marine chassis provider in North America, has acquired Hyundai Merchant Marine’s U.S. chassis fleet, comprising more than 23,000 chassis...

Russia and Eastern Europe are the only bright spots in an “otherwise gloomy” outlook for Europe’s container market, according to APM Terminals.

Port drayage companies say they’re frustrated with a third consecutive week of delays that have caused long truck lines at Port of New York and New Jersey container terminals.

The new extension to Container Terminal 2, operated by DP World at Jebel Ali Port in the United Arab Emirates, has officially opened with the arrival of the...

Maher Terminals reported a “system outage” temporarily interrupted traffic at its Port of New York and New Jersey terminal this morning, resulting in heavy backups of trucks.

WASHINGTON — The approach the U.S. House of Representatives takes in tackling the long-delayed Water Resources Development Act over the coming months could signal how the chamber will deal with the next federal surface transportation bill.

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development has completed its markup of the fiscal year 2014 appropriation bill...

United Waalhaven Terminals and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have reached agreement on the construction of a new quay on Bunshotenweg in the Netherlands.

Greece is mulling bringing forward the sale of the country’s main ports, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, and the state railway, to cover a shortfall in its privatization budget.

Construction has started on the Dominican Republic’s first logistics center, Caucedo Logistics Center, which is a joint venture between DP World and the Caucedo Development Corp.

Some high-profile manufacturers are shifting production back to the U.S., but is it a true supply chain trend?

Visibility in the waters around Kertih Port in Malaysia could be significantly reduced as a result of haze coming from forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia, according to Inchcape Shipping Services.

Port Canaveral is pursuing the development of an inland port near the north end of Brevard County, Fla., in conjunction with the start this fall of the widening and deepening of the Florida port’s 3.5 mile channel.

The Georgia Ports Authority’s board of directors has elected Robert S. Jepson Jr. to serve a second term as chairman of the board.

The Panama Canal has received the first two of 14 tugboats that will help strengthen the waterway’s capacity for the operation of its third set of locks.

The Massachusetts Port Authority has approved a business plan and budget for fiscal year 2014 of $592 million, up 2.5 percent or $14.4 million compared with the previous year.

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port Group reported consolidated cargo turnover from January to May was 61.3 million metric tons, falling 10.4 percent from 68.4 million metric tons in the first five months of 2012.

Gulftainer will be taking over full management of terminals at the Saudi Arabian ports of Jeddah and Jubail after acquiring a majority stake in Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company.

India’s Mumbai Port Authority has issued a request for qualification from interested bidders for the construction of a new “offshore multi-purpose cargo berth.”

Maher Terminals said its gate processing was flowing smoothly today and that its main terminal and chassis depot will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday for import deliveries.

For years, Peter Friedmann has touted the idea that exports can regain their long-lost dominance over imports in U.S. container trade. Now some economists say the executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition may be onto something.

Changing trade flows are placing demands on ports to develop export-oriented facilities, especially those that handle food products, both dry and refrigerated, according to Moffatt and Nichol commercial advisor Anne Landstrom.

The European Commission today decided to refer Spain to the European Union Court of Justice regarding its rule on hiring port labor in several Spanish ports.