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The National Industrial Transportation urged Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to encourage the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance to resume talks on

Amsterdam Container Terminals, is to close, capping a doomed decade-long bid to shake off its White Elephant image and attract deep-sea container ships to a port just an hour’s drive from Rotter

The Gulf ports of New Orleans, Mobile and Gulfport remained closed Thursday morning in the wake of Hurricane Isaac as port executives waited to assess port and ocean conditions before reopening.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association urged the International Longshoremen’s Association and the its management counterpart to resume negotiations in order to reach agreement before the curren

One of the world's largest ocean shippers has broken with tradition and signed an exclusive five-year deal with a single logistics provider.

The Seattle Port Commission has added its legal assessment to that of port staff in stating that Executive Director Tay Yoshitani did not violate the terms of his employment contract with the port whe

Retailers and other cargo interests are frantically seeking space on vessel sailings to West Coast and Canadian ports now that a strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association is becomin

The International Longshoremen’s Association local that ILA President Harold Daggett headed for years voted to authorize its current president to call a strike if necessary when the union’

In this podcast, JOC Senior Editor Joseph Bonney discusses why labor contract negotiations between the International Longshoremen's Association and United States Mariti

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Baltimore in July jumped 15.2 percent to 61,933 20-foot-equivalent units, up from 53,781 TEUs in June.

Shipping lines and terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach were breathing a sigh of relief Wednesday morning after office workers and their employers agreed to resume contract negotiations.

Damco hired long-time logistics executive Steve Hoffman as global head for the industrial vertical sector.

DP World’s profit stalled in the first half even as Dubai’s state-owned global container terminal operator increased its world market share.

Container trailer operators at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) called off their strike Wednesday evening, allowing the movement of ocean freight traffic between cargo terminals an

The Greek port of Piraeus, until recently a hotbed of labor unrest, has become the star performer in Cosco Pacific’s terminal portfolio with a growth rate double that of the Hong Kong-based comp

Infrastructure woes at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Container Terminal (Nhava Sheva Port) are causing lengthy delays for vessels calling at the country’s largest container gateway.

The Port of Seattle Commission has vetted Executive Director Tay Yoshitani’s decision to become a director of Expeditors International and determined there is no conflict of interest with his po

Joseph Bonney, the JOC senior editor who has been leading coverage of the acrimonious East and Gulf Coast longshore labor negotiations, will participate in a session on the topic at the upcoming JOC I

Ports along the U.S.

The National Retail Federation urged the International Longshoremen’s Association and waterfront employers to resume negotiations and avoid a work stoppage when the current East and Gulf Coast l

Toll Holdings saw write-downs on assets in Australia and Japan contribute to a 76 percent decline in full-year profit.

Container volume through North European ports will remain sluggish this year as the continent’s economy struggles, Hackett Associates and the Bremen-based Institute of Shipping Economics said in

DHL has launched new services from Asia to the Americas from a new multimodal gateway located at South Korea’s Port of Busan.

New Zealand’s Ports of Auckland blamed strike action for its slide in volume and profit in the fiscal year ending June 30.

Thomas Bradshaw has been named executive director of the North Carolina State Ports Authority in addition to his current position as state logistics director.

Container volume through the Port of Charleston grew 7.4 percent in the first half of this year, the South Carolina Ports Authority said.

Two bidders competing with APM Terminals for a concession to operate the Port of Virginia presented their multibillion-dollar proposals to state officials.

Gothenburg’s container traffic hit an all-time high in the first half of 2012 as strong Swedish exports to markets outside Europe outweighed lower imports and weak trade flows within Europe.

The International Longshoremen’s Association defended its pay levels and accused United States Maritime Alliance of misrepresenting wages and benefits for East and Gulf Coast dockworkers.

Negotiations for a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract covering dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports broke down Wednesday, and ILA President Harold Daggett warned that a st

Negotiations for a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract covering dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports broke down suddenly Wednesday, ILA spokesman James McNamara said.

The South Carolina Ports Authority agreed to join Norfolk Southern Railway in developing

Rotterdam’s container traffic fell 1.6 percent in the first half of 2012 from a year ago as sharply lower imports from China because of the deepening eurozone crisis outweighed increased exports

With just five weeks left on their current contract, the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance resume negotiations today on a new labor agreement for East

Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM say they no longer object to a proposal by APM Terminals to take over the Virginia Port Authority’s container operations.

The International Longshoremen’s Association said its protest of a stevedore’s use of non-ILA labor would continue this week in Charleston, S.C., where a military pre-positioning ship is b

Colombian port workers, members of the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Transporte, reached an agreement on Aug.

The International Labour Organization’s Maritime Labour Convention

On a recent Saturday, longshoremen at the SSA Marine terminal in Oakland averaged an astounding 58 container lifts per crane per hour.

China trade was definitely hopping in the Year of the Hare.