Port News

Cape Breton is looking for a terminal operator to build a container terminal on a greenfield tract of land in the deep-water harbor of Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Brazilian Customs officials continued the slowdown in inspections at most Brazilian ports

Unionized dockworkers called off a threatened strike at the APM Terminals facility in India’s P

The Port of Oakland is scheduled to receive more than $3.5 million in federal port security grant funding for three security projects during the current fiscal year.

Cai Mep International Terminal will handle close to 600,000 20-foot equivalent units in 2012, representing 50 percent of the containers moving through the Vietnamese port which has five other terminal

The Journal of Commerce Trucking Employment Index edged up one-tenth of a percentage point in June as trucking hiring slowed to a crawl.

The Japanese Shipowners’ Association voiced strong objections on Friday to the toll increases proposed by the Panama Canal Authority and urged it to withdraw the increases scheduled for this Oct

The Port of Long Beach plans to provide an incentive payment to ocean carriers in hopes of attracting more intermodal rail cargo to the port.

DP World Australia said it received $138 million from the sale of its 60 percent shareholding in Adelaide Container Terminal to locally based Flinders Ports.

Trucking giant Old Dominion Freight Line is expanding its less-than-truckload network, opening new terminals in Southern California and Florida.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM said it is a member of a consortium that plans to bid and invest between 200 million euros and 250 million euros ($250 million-$315 million) to develop and operate a secon

An Indian High Court of Appeals temporarily set aside tariff reductions ordered by port regulator Tariff Authority for Major Ports at the APM Terminals and DP World facilities in the Port of Nhava She

Slowdowns by Brazilian customs offices continue to delay shipments at seaports and airports.

Panalpina, the global freight forwarding and logistics group, has opened four new logistics competence centers around the world, supported by a new supply chain solutions center in Frankfurt.

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Container volumes at West Coast ports increased 7 percent in May compared to May 2011, with imports up 8 percent and exports up 5 percent, according to

The Department of Homeland Security announced more than $97 million in port security grants for the 2012 fiscal y

The London Gateway deep-sea container port and distribution hub will offer rail service across the U.K. on the day it opens in the fourth quarter of 2013.

As ports prepare for a modest spike in cargo volumes during the peak shipping season, ocean carriers, marine terminals, railroads and equipment providers appear to be flush with capacity.

Higher manufacturing output in the Midwest is translating to more trucking jobs.

A jury in Longview, Wash., failed to reach a verdict at the weekend in a case in which International Longshore and Warehouse Union President Robert McEllrath was charged with attempting to block a tra

The court-appointed master who is handling a jurisdictional dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at the Port of Portl

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by owner-operator truck drivers who claimed they were illegally misclassified as contractors instead of employees by one of the Port of New York and New Jersey&rsqu

Negotiators for the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance have completed two days of negotiations that yielded what an ILA spokesman said was “substa

Kombiverkehr reported revenue of 430 million euros ($542 million) in 2011, up 11.9 percent on the previous year and just 2 million euros short of its 2008 record, as Europe’s largest multimodal

Encompass Global Logistics will further expand its network into low-cost manufacturing centers as outsourcing trends evolve, according to a leading executive.

The South Carolina Legislature allocated $300 million to fund the deepening Charleston’s harbor in the amended state budget announced Thursday.

The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance have resumed negotiations on a contract covering 14,500 East and Gulf Coast dockworkers.

A truck strike over working conditions in South Korea continued to paralyze import and export trade Thursday.

Congress may consider a bill to deepen the Mississippi River to 50 feet so that larger post-Panamax vessels transiting the expanded Panama Canal after 2014 will be able to access the river and the Por

APM Terminals will open a new regional headquarters in Singapore in September to oversee its operations in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent and free its Shanghai office to focus on China and

After reviewing objections raised by shipping lines to the toll increases it proposed in April, the Panama Canal Authority postponed the first step of the two-step increase from July until October this year...

Stockton is poised to become the largest U.S. city ever to declare bankruptcy, but the city’s legal filing will have no effect on operations or financing at the Port of Stockton.

Strikes by Brazilian customs officers are disrupting ports and slowing clearance of imports, maritime services provider

Kuehne + Nagel Australia has signed a logistics contract with a leading provider of fiber optic and copper product solutions used in telecommunications networks.

Labor federations representing dockworkers at the APM Terminals Mumbai in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) have postponed

Swift Transportation, the nation's largest truckload carrier, will offer truck drivers quarterly performance-linked bonuses that it says could add up to 6 cents per mile to their pay.

DP World boosted productivity and capacity at its Aden Container Terminal in Yemen by installing two ship-to-shore quay cranes. The new cranes bring the total number of quay cranes to seven.

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port’s first quarter earnings soared 48 percent from a year ago as Russia’s largest port operator handled record cargo volume to boost its share of the nation&r

Local political and trade union leaders notified the APM Terminals management in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) of their decision to strike June 28, an action that could shut dow