Port News

Anticipating fierce competition from East Coast ports when the Panama Canal expansion project is completed in 2014, the Southern California port and logistics industries are emphasizing increased effi

Container volume at major ports in India grew 3.3 percent year-over-year in the first 11 months of fiscal 2011-12, according to preliminary traffic figures released by the Indian Ports Association.

Kim Fejfer is waging a war on waste at his company’s container terminals.

The game of musical chairs in the Pacific Northwest will continue this summer when Grand Alliance carriers NYK Line, Hapag-Lloyd and Orient Overseas Container Line leave the Port of Seattle and move t

Manufacturers are looking for lower-cost sourcing locations as China’s wages rise well above those in other emerging markets.

India’s Tariff Authority for Major Ports ordered a 27.85 percent reduction in tariffs currently levied by Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, a DP World facility in the Port of Jawahar

CEVA Logistics’ earnings grew by 9.9 percent in 2011 year-over-year to $421 million on cost cuts and improved efficiency, as revenue rose one percent to a record $9 billion.

The port of Liverpool will start construction early next year on a $480 million, deep water container terminal with an initial 500,000 20-foot equivalent units-a-year capacity.

Two technology companies focused on port drayage and container chassis services, Advent and eModal, merged to form Advent Intermodal Solutions.

U.S. rail growth this year is expected to outpace overall economic expansion as manufacturing expands and the shifting energy landscape gives as well as takes.

Jim Devine hit the roof when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey raised the truck and auto tolls on its bridges and tunnels last September.

From Valparaiso, Chile, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ports face the reality that their land-use and business growth plans can’t be developed in a vacuum.

They have deep water. They have more than 500 acres with a mile of waterfront and environmental approvals in place.

The Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) will be able to handle deep-draft vessels and expand throughput capacity in roughly two years after India’s top container hub received $320 million for

James River Coal in 2012 expects to ship at least 3.3 percent more coal from the Midwest and Central Appalachia than it did last year despite many railroad analysts’ expectations that coal shipm

The Abu Dhabi Port Co. plans to open a port with an initial annual capacity of 2 million 20-foot equivalent units in the United Arab Emirates in late 2012.

West Coast ports could see a diversion of cargo from East and Gulf Coast ports this year if contract talks between waterfront employers and the International Longshoremen’s Association become he

APM Terminals plans to invest about $3 billion in infrastructure development and expansion of its global network of terminals in 2012, the Hague-based terminal operator said Tuesday.

Operations at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) were severely disrupted Tuesday after dock workers at India’s largest container gateway joined a 24-hour nationwide general strike.

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APM Terminals profit declined 18 percent in 2011 to $649 million from $793 million a year ago, but the container terminal operator expects gains in market share will improve results in 2012.

Drewry Shipping Consultants estimates the international shipping industry contributes about 3.3 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, part of an enormous impact from global freight tr

Hapag-Lloyd plans to make Baltimore its first westbound call in the U.S. on its weekly Gulf of Mexico Express from North Europe to U.S. and Mexican Gulf ports.

Global manufacturer Procter & Gamble plans to wring $4.5 billion in savings from raw materials, packaging and logistics as part of a plan to save $10 billion.

Maersk will raise its rates on containerized shipments from India to South Africa, starting March 12.

A dockworker was killed Wednesday night at the Port Newark Container Terminal in New Jersey after she was pinned between two containers.

You wouldn’t think the country has been skirting along the fragile edge of an economic downturn by looking at business at many of the large Gulf ports.

Alabama’s Port of Mobile has turned out to be the perfect match for German steel manufacturer ThyssenKrupp.

Dock workers on Wednesday suspended a three-week campaign of rolling wildcat strikes at APM Terminals container facility in Rotterdam that seriously disrupted shipping at Europe’s largest contai

The upholding of four of the concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles’ clean-trucks plan by U.S.

International container volume at the Port of Tacoma in January increased 8 percent year-over-year, as imports surged 12.4 percent at the Washington state port.

China plans to spend $3 billion to build a three-pier terminal in a special economic zone bordering North Korea and a 34-mile cross-border railroad linking the port to the Chinese northeastern city of

Kerry Logistics said the acquisition of its former joint venture in Spain will allow customers in the country’s poor performing economy to access more dynamic Asian markets.

East Coast container trade volume rose 5.5 percent in the first 10 months of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, to 10.8 million 20-foot equivalent units, and outperformed the total U.S.

Ports along the Eastern Seaboard are putting money where their hopes are, investing in projects for better landside access by road and rail in an effort to compete for discretionary cargo.

Shippers and carriers view this year’s East and Gulf Coast longshore labor negotiations with a sense of trepidation and an eye on the calendar.

Container volume at the Port of New York and New Jersey in 2011 rose nearly 4 percent year-over-year, breaking the annual record set in 2007 before the start of the global economic downturn.

A study by a Rhode Island legislative commission said development of auto import-export cargo, offshore wind farms, container feeder services and breakbulk shipments could increase jobs, income and st

Industry groups including shippers and trucking companies are urging New Jersey legislators to reject union-backed bills that would require owner-operators hired by drayage and parcel companies to be

The Port of Long Beach began 2012 on a down note, with containerized imports in January declining 5.5 percent and exports 8.2 percent lower year-over-year.