Port News

The Nicaragua National Assembly has ratified the government’s commercial agreement with HKND Group to develop the Nicaragua Canal and Development Project.

The St. Lawrence Seaway reported cargo shipments from March 22 to May 31 totaled 8.1 million metric tons, down 12 percent compared to the same period in 2012.

The American Trucking Associations has applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today to reject two concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles’ clean-trucks program.

Maher Terminals has announced that it will be open for the delivery of import cargo on Saturday, June 15, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling rejecting two more concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program did not drive a stake into the heart of the port’s attempt to regulate harbor trucking, but it made the task of any port attempting to follow such a strategy more difficult.

The Delaware River Main Channel Deepening Project is now about 60 percent finished, following the completion of Reach D, an 11-mile stretch of the Delaware River’s main shipping channel in Delaware...

The Port of Virginia handled 191,368 20-foot-equivalent units in May, rising 7.2 percent or 12,784 units from May 2012.

The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday struck down two more concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program, further weakening the ability of a port to regulate harbor trucking for environmental or other goals.

APM Terminals officials have met with Olusegun Aganga, Nigeria’s minister of industry, trade and investment, along with a delegation of government officials and advisers, continuing talks on infrastructure investment to enhance Nigeria's logistics capabilities.

Maher Terminals has announced that it is continuing to work on the system-related issues that are affecting truck processing at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The U.S. has threatened to ban ships from entering Nigeria unless the sub-Saharan African nation improves security in its ports and waterways, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.

U.S. East Coast ports experienced widely varying impacts from the months-long threat of labor strife that began last year with the breakdown of talks for a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract.

Maher Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey will extend container free time and freeze demurrage charges through Wednesday as it clears a backlog caused by computer glitches during the changeover to a new terminal operating system.

The Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), India’s top container handler, has issued a new request for qualification from interested bidders for the development of its long-awaited fourth container terminal.

Maher Terminals said its main terminal and chassis depot in the Port of New York and New Jersey reopened to long truck lines at 6 a.m. today following Monday’s rough start to implementation of a new terminal operating system.

Wilson Sons reported that its container terminals in Brazil handled a total of 77,600 20-foot-equivalent units in May, jumping 14.0 percent from 68,100 TEUs in the same month in the previous year.

Maher Terminals is continuing to work on the computer issues affecting its main terminal and main chassis depot at the Port of New York and New Jersey and will not be receiving exports or empties at the main terminal for the rest of the day.

Peel Ports has launched dredging operations for its new post-Panamax container terminal at the Port of Liverpool in the U.K.

Maher Terminals is experiencing computer systems issues at both its main terminal and main chassis depot at the Port of New York and New Jersey and has stopped processing at both facilities.

HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. is working with the Nicaraguan government on an interocean canal project that could rival the Panama Canal, The Washington Post reports.

Brazil’s Congress has approved a port reform package, the Provisional Measure of the Ports, that will provide a new legal and institutional framework to increase the nation’s port system efficiency and reduce port-related logistics costs.

The Port of Long Beach’s board of harbor commissioners has appointed Al Moro, chief harbor engineer, as the California port’s interim executive director. His appointment will take effect following a formal vote on June 17.

Lenovo Group, a China-based PC maker, has celebrated the opening of its first U.S.-based manufacturing operation in North Carolina, ABC News reports.

Members of the Maritime Labor Alliance have unanimously appointed Don Marcus, president of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots, as president.

Cucumber exports from Mexico’s Yucatán state reached a record high this past season, according to Grup Marítim TCB.

Employment in transportation and warehousing climbed 1.4 percent in May, as the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

APM Terminals, which operates Pipavav port and a container terminal at Nhava Sheva port, has unveiled plans to expand its inland terminal services business in India.

The Port of Felixstowe has opened a new rail terminal, doubling rail capacity at the U.K. container port.

The Port of Los Angeles and the Hamburg Port Authority have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase bilateral cooperation.

A strike earlier this week at the leading Indonesia gateway port of Tanjung Priok is continuing to cause truck bottlenecks, according to forwarders.

Container ship lines are supporting a state legislative effort to repeal a cargo facilities charge that carriers say is costing them millions of dollars a year at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Throughput at India’s Port of Mumbai fell 19 percent year-over-year in the first two months of fiscal year 2013-14, the port authority said in a statement this week.

Port Metro Vancouver in British Columbia handles $172 billion of cargo each year, or about $475 million every day, according to the port’s 2012 Economic Impact Study.

Maher Terminals will implement the final phase of its terminal operating system at the Port of New York and New Jersey this weekend (of June 8), and as a result, will be altering its schedule.

The New York Shipping Association and the International Longshoremen’s Association are in the early stages of implementing a new contract that targets high costs and low productivity at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Container throughput for Lithuania’s Klaipėda port totaled 33,030 20-foot-equivalent units in May, an increase of 5.8 percent, or 1,811 TEUs, compared with 31,219 TEUs in May 2012.

Four new super-post-Panamax, ship-to-shore cranes today arrived at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union grain workers who have been locked out of the United Grain terminal in Vancouver, Wash., since Feb. 27 brought their fight north this week by gaining the support of ILWU Canada workers in Prince Rupert.