Port News

Container throughput at the South Korea’s Busan port in 2011 rose 14 percent year-over-year, and the North Asian transhipment hub expects more than 8 percent traffic growth this year.

DP World, the world’s third largest container terminal operator, boosted traffic by 10 percent in 2011 from a year ago on strong growth in emerging markets, prompting a forecast that core earnin

Toll Global Forwarding dismissed on Monday Teamsters union charges that the logistics company pays its employee drivers in Southern California below market rates and is trying to delay the u

Cargo interests and customs brokers complained to the Federal Maritime Commission that trucking companies in Los Angeles-Long Beach are still charging a clean-truck fee even though the ports stopped c

The Port of Antwerp is at a standstill as dockers at Europe’s third-largest container port participate in a nationwide 24-hour general strike.

Container shipments at Piraeus nearly doubled in 2011 from the previous year as surging volume at a Cosco Pacific-controlled terminal helped Greece’s largest port recoup some of the Mediterranea

The Indonesian government’s cancellation of a plan to build a container terminal in Jakarta is fueling fears that the country’s failure to improve its infrastructure will constrain economi

South Carolina’s House of Representatives is trying to reverse the approval by the state’s environmental agency of a permit to allow the deepening of the Savannah River to 48 feet by the U

The Georgia Ports Authority will buy four new electric-powered rubber-tired gantry cranes and retrofit other RTGs in the Port of Savannah to reduce fuel consumption, emissions and maintenance costs.

The port of Antwerp faces a shutdown Monday as Belgian dockers participate in a nationwide 24-hour general strike against a government austerity program that will halt rail freight traffic and close

Imperial Logistics boosted its presence in southern Africa through the acquisition of two transport companies for undisclosed sums.

Pantos Logistics expects to grow volume 10 percent this year and gradually emerge as one of the world’s top 10 logistics providers, despite an expected slowdown in global economic growth.

The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners promoted two employees who have been highly involved in expanding the port.

Maersk Line containerships will switch to burning low-sulfur fuel while at berth in the Port of Virginia starting in February.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s new executive director said the agency will use its leases as a lever to end “deliberate discrimination” in hiring on the bistate port

The Port of New York and New Jersey’s various factions must work together to improve a port that is “not as efficient, productive or even as safe as some of our competitors,” said Ne

Forth Ports acquired full ownership of Tilbury Container Services, paying $147 million for the remaining 67 percent share of the London container terminal.

The harbor trucking industry is clashing with the Teamsters union over a bill before the Washington state legislature that would classify owner-operators as employees rather than as independent contra

The port of Rotterdam will grow container traffic faster than its north European rivals over the next six years and its terminals will achieve higher utilization rates, according to a report by McKins

The northern French ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris are working together on a joint effort to attract business to a logistics corridor along the river Seine.

Damco has appointed Henriette Hallberg Thygesen, a 16-year veteran of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, as its new CEO for North Asia.

Sri Lankan conglomerate Aitken Spence agreed to sell its 30 percent stake in the Colombo International Container Terminals to China Merchants Holdings, the majority stakeholder in the $500 million pro

Italian truck drivers kicked off a weeklong protest against higher fuel taxes and road tolls on Monday by blocking highways from the southern container port of Gioia Tauro to the northern industrial c

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah in December dropped 1.9 percent year-over year, but the decrease didn’t prevent the Georgia port from hitting an annual record.

Le Havre handled roughly 7.5 percent fewer containers in 2011 than in the previous year after strikes over labor reforms depressed traffic at France’s biggest container port in the first quarter

Russia’s port of Vladivostok grew container traffic 27 percent in 2011 from a year ago, boosting the Far Eastern gateway’s share of Russian container shipments at the expense of its flat l

The Los Angeles-Long Beach Clean Air Action Plan launched the port industry’s green revolution in 2006, and the improvements some five years later are far beyond what the Southern California por

Last fall’s devastating floods in Thailand cost electronics manufacturer Flextronics $100 million in lost revenue in the past quarter and the company expects to lose a similar amount in the curr

Container throughput at the Port of Halifax in 2011 dropped 5.7 percent year-over-year, largely because three liner services cut or reduced calls to the Canadian terminals this year.

The name of the game for ports in the Pacific Northwest is competition. They compete with California ports for West Coast market share. They compete with East Coast ports for trade with Asia.

The Pacific Northwest isn’t just a gateway for imports; it’s the gateway to the Last Frontier and home to a large field of trucking companies connecting the lower 48 states with Alaska.

The Port of Long Beach and Orient Overseas Container Line signed a 40-year, $4.6 billion tentative agreement that will make the shipping line the primary tenant on a planned terminal that will sharply

The Army Corps of Engineers will begin clearing a chokepoint at the mouth of the Mississippi River that has restricted cargo shipments from the Midwest since last spring.

Halliburton plans to build a sand storage facility for the oil and gas industry on a 54-acre site at a Colorado industrial park where Musket Corp.

Container throughput in the Port of Virginia in 2011 increased by a slim 1.2 percent year-over-year, as a Chinese ban on many export commodities that historically go through the port kept traffic grow

Clean truck programs implemented by the Port of Oakland and the California Air Resources Board have cut harmful diesel emissions in the harbor area by 40 to 50 percent, according to the Berkeley Insti

The incidence of cargo theft in the U.S.

Container traffic at the Port of Charleston rose 2.4 percent year-over-year, pushing up year-end traffic up 1.2 percent as the South Carolina port prepares for a slowdown in traffic.

The Port of Philadelphia in 2011 saw container traffic rise 6.7 percent year-over-year and auto shipments skyrocket 85 percent in the same period.

Antwerp’s container traffic rose 2.3 percent year-over-year in 2011, pushing total volume at Europe’s second-largest port up 5 percent.