Port News

Peel Ports in the U.K. has invested in a larger vessel for its Manchester Ship Canal container service.

Eleven companies have responded to a request for formal expressions of interest in building and operating a new container terminal at India’s Port of Ennore.

A strike over working conditions has paralyzed cargo movements to and from Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, a DP World facility in India’s southeastern port of Cochin.

U.S. Representatives Janice Hahn, D-Calif., and Ted Poe, R-Texas, will receive the American Association of Port Authorities’ “Port Persons of the Year” award during the association’s annual spring conference...

At the end of last week, the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance tentatively agreed on a six-year master contract, averting a threatened Maine-to-Texas strike following the current contract’s expiration at midnight Feb. 6.

Luka Koper, the operator of the Port of Koper in Slovenia, reported container throughput at the port in 2012 was 5.29 million metric tons, down 0.8 percent compared with 5.33 million metric tons in 2011.

Privatizing the Virginia Port Authority would be a mistake, said J. Robert “Bobby” Bray, who oversaw Hampton Roads’ growth into a major container port during 29 years as VPA executive director.

Energy company Kinder Morgan has outlined a potential plan for investments in the Port of Wilmington, Del., in the event of a long-term lease agreement with the port’s owner, Diamond State Port.

Container volumes at West Coast ports increased 4 percent in December, but 2012 overall was a lackluster year as the total of import and export containers increased only 2 percent from 2011.

Port management company International Container Terminal Services has won the international public bidding process for the design, financing, construction, maintenance, operation and exploitation of the...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has awarded a $41.4 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. to deepen the Arthur Kill channel.

The inland Port of West Sacramento, Calif., has released a request for interest to identify potential business partners to lease or operate the port’s cargo facilities and to lease, purchase or develop port-owned real estate.

North Carolina State Ports Authority has appointed Jeff Miles as acting executive director, effective immediately.

Harbor trucking companies in Southern California in March plan to release the results of a study of turnaround times at the 14 container terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said he’s confident ILA members will be satisfied with a tentative agreement on a coastwide contract and that the union now will turn its attention “to achieving equally successful local contract agreements.”

The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance reached tentative agreement on a six-year coastwide master contract late Friday night, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said.

The container terminals at the Port of Algeciras in Spain handled 4.1 million 20-foot-equivalent units in 2012, a 13 percent increase year-over-year.

The announcement that Mediterranean Shipping Co. will invest in the Total Terminals International facility at the Port of Long Beach comes barely one month after the port announced that CMA CGM is taking an equity stake in the Pacific Container Terminal that is operated by SSA Marine.

Port of Tacoma, Wash., has hired Tom Bellerud to lead container terminal business development.

Mediterranean Shipping Company has increased its investment at the Port of Long Beach, according to J. Christopher Lytle, the port’s executive director, in his “State of the Port” announcement.

Halterm Container Terminal has signed a seven-year contract with Newfoundland-based intermodal company Oceanex that could generate more than $60 million in annual revenue for the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based terminal...

Finland-based lifting equipment manufacturer Konecranes reported profit in the fourth quarter of 2012 was 22.3 million euros (about US$30.3 million), dropping 2.9 percent from $31.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Duisburg’s container traffic reached an all-time high in 2012 even as total throughput at the world’s largest inland port slumped 12 percent on sharply lower coal and steel shipments.

HAROPA, an alliance of three ports on the Seine river, including Ports de Paris, Grand Port Maritime de Rouen and Grand Port Maritime du Havre, reported container traffic in the waterway increased 1 percent year-over-year in tonnage...

Workers at the Port of Albany in New York have been loading housing modules onto freighters bound for St. John’s, Newfoundland, for an Exxon/Mobil-led offshore drilling project there, which has boosted the port’s traffic...

Container ship lines serving East and Gulf Coast ports are urging customers to pick up import containers and return empty boxes before the International Longshoremen’s Association contract expires Feb. 6.

The port of Tyne, Europe’s biggest handler of wood pellets, announced plans to invest £180 million ($283 million) in additional facilities to handle, store and distribute imports for the UK’s power plants.

A team of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies began maritime safety and security operations on the lower Mississippi River today to support Super Bowl XLVII.

The Surface Transportation Board has granted its permission for motor carriers to use co-op pools to acquire and share intermodal chassis.