Port News

The Port of Los Angeles’s 10-year Main Channel Deepening Project has been completed.

Dock workers at the Port of Lirquen in Chile are continuing to strike, according to Hapag-Lloyd.

In 2012, the Port of Toronto handled 1.86 million metric tons of cargo, a 5 percent increase compared to 2011, according to the Toronto Port Authority.

Strikes and demonstrations by dockworkers at the Port of Hong Kong have now entered their second week and vessel queues are continuing to lengthen, forcing the diversion of large volumes of container traffic away from the world’s third-busiest container port.

State-owned Container Corporation of India has launched a regular intermodal rail service between the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal at Cochin Port and Bangalore, a southern hinterland destination, following an appeal by terminal operator DP World.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has condemned the temporary injunction that dismisses striking dock workers from Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in the Port of Hong Kong, citing it as a violation of global standards.

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The Port of Jawaharlal Nehru’s container throughput slipped 1 percent year-over-year in fiscal year 2012-13, which ended March 31, 2013.

Port of Oakland staff has provided a progress update on revisions to policy pertaining to members of the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners, including corrective steps to promote accountability.

Georgia’s state legislature has approved funding an additional $50 million for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project.

The South Carolina Ports Authority and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control have extended their air quality partnership through 2018.

The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Nagoya in central Japan edged up 0.8 percent in 2012 from a year earlier to 2.492 million 20-foot equivalent units, according to preliminary figures released by the Nagoya municipal government.

Strikes by dockworkers at Hong Kong’s container facilities continued today, further disrupting truck operations to and from facilities in the Kwai Tsing area of the port.

West Coast ports have developed business plans to enhance their competitiveness, with the common theme being construction of port and transportation infrastructure that will make the West Coast the most efficient gateway for international intermodal cargo.

U.S. West Coast ports handled 13.1 million 20-foot-equivalent units or 67.5 percent of the 19.4 million TEUs in U.S. containerized cargo trade with Asian countries in 2012, a decline of 0.3 percent year-over-year and just 0.5 percent above the pre-recession year of 2008.

Ceres Marine Terminals has named Douglas Wolfe as vice president, effective April 1.

The Massachusetts Port Authority has named Jose Masso director of community relations and Jim Doolin chief development officer.

Jubail Commercial Port in Saudi Arabia will take delivery of six rail-mounted gantry cranes from Liebherr Container Cranes.

Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport, has announced plans to “radically overhaul” the nation’s 19 commercial ports and give the government a more hands-on role in the sector...

If the new International Longshoremen’s Association contract works as planned, the Port of New York and New Jersey will become more productive and less costly over the next six years.

The Port of Houston Authority’s port commission has approved two memoranda of agreement with the U.S Army Corps of Engineers for maintenance dredging at its two container terminals.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett has written to ILA members, urging them to ratify a six-year contract agreement covering dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports.

Long Beach and Los Angeles must work harder than ever if they want to retain their position as the nation’s largest port complex, speakers at the annual Pulse of the Ports seminar in Long Beach said Wednesday.

PSA International, the operator of the Port of Singapore, reported profit in 2012 was S$1.29 billion (about US$1.04 billion), rising 11.5 percent from $930.52 million in 2011.

International Longshoremen’s Association members will vote April 9 on a landmark contract that was starting to look impossible without a strike.

Unionized truckers in India have called for an indefinite work stoppage starting at midnight March 31 to protest against deregulation of fuel prices and a steep hike in insurance premiums.

Busan Port Authority’s port committee has elected Jong-su Park as its 10th port chairman.

The Georgia Ports Authority reported total cargo moved in February was 2.27 million tons, rising 147,650 tons, or 6.9 percent from February 2012.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said he plans an aggressive effort to transform the union into a “New ILA” that will cultivate closer links with other unions in the U.S. and abroad.

After review applicants, the Port of Seattle’s commission today announced the finalists for a vacancy created by Rob Holland’s resignation.

In January and February, Lithuania’s Port of Klaipėda and Būtingės terminal handled 62,879 20-foot-equivalent units, improving 8.3 percent compared with the same period last year.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on “conflict minerals,” to get interested parties’ views on a potential European Union initiative for responsible sourcing of minerals coming from conflict zones and high-risk areas...

The Port of Felixstowe has received delivery of three rail-mounted gantry cranes, which form part of a new rail terminal at the U.K. port.

Brittany Ferries has launched a weekly service between the Port of Poole in the U.K. and the Port of Bilbao, Spain.

HHLA’s net profit slumped 18.9 percent in 2012 on rising costs even as Hamburg’s biggest stevedore increased container traffic amid a slump in Asian imports and boosted its market share in the North European port range.

The attempt by private infrastructure investors to cash in on future revenue at the Port of Virginia ended Tuesday when the state agency that runs the port decided that two private bidders had not offered enough to replace the money the state stood to make if it held onto the container terminals.

Demonstrating the importance of intermodal rail to Southern California, the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday broke ground on an $84 million project to add tracks and a support yard for on-dock rail operations.

The American Association of Port Authorities’ board of directors has elected Tay Yoshitani, CEO of the Port of Seattle, as chairman.