Port News

Import volume at the Port of New York and New Jersey grew 6.7 percent in July on a month-to-month basis to the highest point of 2011 although container volume fell back compared to last summer’s

Gulftainer, the Middle East’s largest private port operator, plans to invest $275 million to co-develop and operate a multipurpose cargo terminal at the Russian Baltic port of Ust-Luga

Vehicle shipments through the Port of Baltimore rose 12 percent to a record 270,700 units during the first six months of this year, the Maryland Port Administration said.

The Massachusetts Port Authority plans to replace up to 60 old drayage trucks at the Port of Boston through a $1.5 million program that includes a $500,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agen

Since it’s founding in 1934, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has prided itself in being a militant union, but its militancy was usually limited to walking off the job to take a p

In a show of solidarity and apparent disdain over police actions at rough protest last week, the entire membership of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 turned themselves in Friday i

The Port of Guangzhou’s cargo traffic in the first seven months of the year rose 16 percent year-over-year, as the port complex benefited from Maersk Line using it as a gateway to South China.

The 250-member Panama Canal Pilots Union will affiliate with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, extending the reach of the powerful West Coast dockworkers’ union to Panama three ye

A federal court judge in Tacoma Thursday found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in contempt of court for vandalizing the new EGT grain export terminal in Longview, Wash., during the uni

Workers at India’s Port of Chennai launched a wildcat strike Thursday morning to protest the death of a colleague in a dockside accident, local shipping circles said.

A former officer of an International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1233 in Newark, N.J., was charged with stealing more than $100,000 in union funds.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday with grain elevator operators in the Pacific Northwest, a pact that would isolate grain handler EGT in its

The Port of Mumbai extended by six months its concessions on container stuffing and de-stuffing charges to boost container throughput, as India’s once busiest container port tries to reclaim bus

NYK Line will quit providing free intermodal chassis in the Northeast region, including the Port of New York an

Import volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach signaled weak demand heading into the peak fall shipping season in August, falling 9.4 percent compared to last year and slipping sequentially

Shipping volume in containers, general cargoes, and dry and liquid bulk cargoes at the major Syrian ports of Latakia and Tartous have slipped since protesters started mounting demonstrations against t

An International Longshore and Warehouse Union member was arrested on felony charges stemming from an ILWU protest at a West Coast grain terminal after a witness identified him from an obscenity-laden

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the Obama administration is committed to helping U.S.

CMA CGM is reorganizing its CAGEMA service between the U.S.

Union Pacific Railway said international intermodal volume has been recently weak, but customers expect to compress the peak season for boxed loads into September and October.

Global Ports doubled its first half profit to $82.4 million, as Russia’s largest container terminal operator boosted domestic box traffic more than 70 percent in its first year as a public compa

Raj Penkar, a longtime executive at UPS Supply Chain Solutions, will join Sears Holdings as senior vice president and president of supply chain, overseeing the global logistics and distribution unit a

A shortage of port capacity is preventing lines from offering mainline U.S.

Asset-based logistics models will outperform pure third-party-logistics operations in fast-growing emerging markets in the coming years, said APL Logistics’s president.

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Cargo handling at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma resumed today following an arbitrator’s back-to-work order to members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

Security conditions at Libya’s ports of Tripoli and Benghazi have stabilized, aside from celebratory gunfire at the capital, allowing international trade to restart, according to GAC, a global l

Major Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co.

ILWU protestors clash with police near a controversial grain terminal in Longview, Wash.

Wal-Mart is “guardedly optimistic” about the rest of 2011 but sees a trend toward a “flatter” peak season for holiday shipments, said Kelly Abney, the retailer’s vice pre

Rail service has slipped because of bad weather and cost-cutting that have left railroads without enough train crews to operate trains or switch railcars frequently, shippers told an investment bank c

The July container volume at West Coast ports fell 3 percent compared to July 2010, despite another strong showing in exports.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union vowed to maintain its pickets at a newly built grain terminal in Longview, Wash., despite a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Tac

Saddle Creek promoted Mike DelBovo, a 14-year company veteran, to the new position of president of transportation at the contract logistics operator.

McDonalds’ plan to add more than 700 restaurants in China by 2013 signals the growing market for cold chain logistics providers.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration upheld the use of stickers to identify trucks complying with a drayage registry established by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Trucks drove through bridge toll gates an estimated 416,065 times last year to reach the New York Container Terminal on Staten Island. Total cost for the tolls: more than $14.5 million.

Ports around the United States are anxious to encourage greater use of intermodal rail for inbound shipments, but when does that encouragement amount to an illegal subsidy for rail transport?

The Port of Mobile’s upper harbor is expected to remain closed to traffic through Saturday after a heavy crude oil spill Thursday morning, said Alabama State Ports Authority spokesperson Judith

Pete Reixach has his hands full.