Port News

Auto giants won’t make wholesale changes to their supply chains despite natural disasters in Asia causing global reprucussions on output, said a DHL executive.

Retail sales grew at a double-digit pace over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, launching the holiday sales season with raised hopes for stronger demand that will trigger

Fesco, owner of Russia’s largest ocean carrier, has secured a $135 million loan from the European Bank for Rec

Le Havre will open a $215 million container terminal in early 2012 that will allow France’s biggest box port to handle the largest ships and boost annual capacity by over 1 million 20-foot equiv

West Coast ports are meeting with law enforcement agencies in their regions to ensure demonstrations planned for Dec.

The largest container ship ever to call Indian shores arrived last week at the Port of Mundra, a deepwater cargo hub on the west coast.

The only Japanese liquefied natural gas import terminal impacted by the March earthquake and tsunami is set to reopen on Tuesday with the arrival of a ship carrying the fuel from Malaysia.

An Arizona utility will get $63 million in reparations and rate reductions under a Surface Tr

Major Japanese trading house Marubeni said on Friday Brazilian grain export terminal operator Terlogs Terminal Maritimo is now a wholly owned subsidiary.

Drayage companies in Southern California by the end of the year will remove from service the final 280 trucks that do not meet the standards contained in the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-truck program

The Port of Los Angeles is promoting an international incentive program that encourages ship operators to reduce pollution through engine, fuel and technology enhancements to their vessels.

The Occupy Movement is calling for a shutdown of all West Coast ports on Dec.

Antwerp has begun construction of a major lock that will allow the inland Belgian port to keep pace with the increasing size of containerships and boost its competitive position in the Le Havre-Hambur

Executives at clothing retailer the Gap say they plan to keep inventories more lean in the

CEVA Logistics is working to re-engineer the supply chains of its aut

Containerized imports generally lagged but exports continued to grow in October at the ports of Oakland, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle.

The Georgia Ports Authority board approved a $6.5 million, 6,000-foot extension of the Mason Intermodal Container Transfer Facility, as the

When Honda resumed production at one of its plants near Bangkok more than a month after shutting its factories amid devastating floods, it seemed to provide a small ripple of optimism for Thai manufac

Box throughput at leading Asian gateways grew in October despite the economic uncertainties that plague key European and U.S. markets.

The Port of Long Beach is in the early days of implementing the largest capital expansion program in its history, so it was with a sense of relief that the Southern California transportation community

Agricultural exports are facing delays at the Port of Oakland as terminals struggle to provide longshoremen with documentation verifying refrigerated containers containing farm products have not previ

Container traffic through the Port of Charleston in October fell 6.3 percent

The California Air Resources Board’s order of all Class 7 drayage trucks to meet the same emission standards that have been in effect for larger Class 8 trucks is intended to close loopholes in

When the APL Egypt pulled into a berth at Manzanillo International Terminal on the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal last February, it took all of a couple minutes for two ship-to-shore cranes to star

Could Cuba become a new Caribbean transshipment hub? After all, it’s only 90 miles from the United States and has an abundance of labor to work in ports.

Intra-Asia trade will see further growth in the coming years as high-tech companies shift more sourcing to the continent and increasingly target the region’s consumers, according to a survey of

NYK Logistics and Yusen Air & Sea Service, part of Japan’s NYK Group, consolidated operations in India by combining their local arms into a single business unit.

Harbor truckers in Southern California are raising concerns that an effort by longshoremen to inspect all chassis before equipment is trucked from Los Angeles-Long Beach will result in unnecessary del

SeaFreight Agencies opened its new 25-acre container terminal at Port Everglades, and the Caribbean carrier plans to boost its volume 23 percent through the Floridian port over the next six years.

Container volume at the Port of Long Beach plunged 20.5 percent in October, reflecting the loss of services by

A maintenance worker at Maher Terminals in Port Elizabeth, N.J., admitted his role in soliciting and accepting bribes to award contracts for demolition and construction projects at the terminal.

Steel shipments in October through the Port of Houston rose 49 percent year-over-year and are up 60 percent year to date, while container traffic was flat last month.

Ocean freight rate volatility is ratcheting up global supply chain costs even when rates head downward, said a DHL Global Forwarding executive.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood threw his support behind the Port of Savannah’s deepening project and pledged to help Georgia find the needed funding.

Agility’s third-quarter profit plummeted 42 percent year-over-year to $29.2 million, as the global logistics group’s revenue contracted 19 percent on a loss of defense and government contr

The container export market out of China could weaken next year with economic recovery in developed countries “uncertain” and the risk of a global slowdown rising, according to Hutchison P

An International Longshoremen’s Association local has withdrawn its unfair-labor-practice charge against Ya

The Port of Los Angeles in October saw imports rise 5.5 percent from the same period a year ago and exports jump 28.1 year-over-year, an all-time monthly high.

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners Monday voted unanimously to name J. Christopher Lytle as executive director.

The International Longshoremen’s Association and the New York Shipping Association said they will give hiring preference to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for jobs that open up in the Port of New