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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.

Hong Kong’s stunning natural harbor has made it a natural center of trade for centuries.

Although Hong Kong and the mainland ports of southern China aren’t going anywhere at the top of the global rankings, the country’s slowing economic growth and shifting manufacturing strate

Jim McKenna, president of the West Coast waterfront employers group known as the Pacific Maritime Association, said the lawsuit involving the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Port o

Portland Executive Port Director Bill Wyatt said the port will not use public money to compensate terminal operator ICTSI for losses incurred this summer during work slowdowns by the International Lon

Cargo tonnage at the Port of Hueneme, California, increased 8.2 percent to 1.3 million metric tons in the fiscal year ending June 30.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union prepared to file suit Thursday against the Port of Portland and its executive director, charging the port violated federal and state law by agreeing to

Volumes were down in the first half of 2012 at the German seaport of Rostock.

The New York State Division of Human Rights filed a complaint accusing the International Longshoremen’s Association,

The International Longshoremen’s Association plans to picket at Charleston, S.C., and at Marine Corps headquarters in Washington next Monday to protest a stevedore’s use of non-ILA labor t

Hamburg’s container traffic declined in the second quarter as sharply lower Asian shipments outweighed growth on Baltic Sea and Russian routes.

Agility’s profit stalled in the second quarter as the Kuwaiti global logistics and infrastructure group reported it was beginning to reap the benefits of a two-year-long restructuring of its bus

CEVA Logistics is boosting its footprint in the Midwest to speed delivery by up to four days by better connecting its ocean services to its surface network.

China and North Korea have further strengthened their commitment to the development of new economic zones on the North Korea side of their shared border as major OEMs will be enticed with the prospect

The volume of containers handled by terminals in the Port of Virginia in July increased 7.4 percent from June and by 8 percent over the same month last year.

Brazilian terminal operator and maritime logistics firm Wilson Sons Limited

HHLA’s profit and container traffic increased in the first half of 2012, but Hamburg’s biggest stevedore forecast flat full-year results amid slowing growth across the North Europe port ra

APM Terminals profit dipped to $160 million in the second quarter from $162 million a year ago as double-digit growth in container traffic in West Africa and Asia was offset by declines across its Eur

Damco’s earnings before interest and taxes jumped 42 percent to $51 million as air freight revenue more than doubled and net revenue increased 12 percent to $1.543 billion.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union Coast Committeeman Leal Sundet was not speaking in hyperbole Monday when he said the jurisdictional dispute in Portland between the ILWU and the Internation