Port News

International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 19 has filed its final reply brief in its lawsuit challenging the Seattle and King County’s signing of...

Cargo throughput at India’s Port of Mumbai climbed 7 percent year-over-year in the first 10 months of fiscal 2012-13, the port authority said in a statement on Monday.

A strike by truck drivers at India’s Port of Cochin has entered its second week, preventing the movement of containers in and out of Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, operated by DP World.

The Port of Philadelphia handled 4.4 million metric tons of cargo in 2012, a 10.4 percent increase compared with 4.0 million metric tons handled in 2011.

The Port of Seattle commission has announced the finalists for the commission vacancy.

Hamburg’s container traffic slipped 1.7 percent in 2012 from 2011 on sharply lower Asian imports.

Louisiana’s Gov. Bobby Jindal has appointed Robert “Rusty” Barkerding Jr. as the newest member of the Port of New Orleans’ board of commissioners.

The Port of Milwaukee reported a decline in total cargo tonnage in 2012 because of winter weather that led to smaller volumes of salt and coal arriving at the port.

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has written to Antonis Samaras, Greece’s prime minister, and Kostas Mousouroulis, the Minister of Shipping and Aegean...

The National Retail Federation today issued a statement by Jonathan Gold, NRF’s vice president for supply chain and customs policy, in response to the recent rejection of a labor contract...

Copenhagen Malmo Port, the transnational port authority for the cities of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden, reported total port activities in both Sweden and Denmark increased 3 percent in 2012...

After finally hearing the official tally of votes late Thursday from the union representing office clerical workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach, the organization that represents waterfront employers announced that all of the union’s bargaining units rejected the tentative contract that was agreed to on Dec. 4.

Three of the more than a dozen bargaining units representing office clerical workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach sent employers and union leaders scrambling Thursday by rejecting a tentative contract agreement that was reached in December.

California’s Port of San Diego will release its final Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Port Capital Improvement Project, an environmental document relating to the proposed shore power project at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal, on Feb. 12 at its monthly board of port commissioner’s meeting.

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s board of directors has re-elected Craig Neeser as chair for another two-year term, beginning March 1.

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.”