Port News

Hapag-Lloyd said Friday it will increase its port congestion surcharge on containers moving to and from Port of Chennai, and Maersk Line added its own surcharges at India’s second-largest port.

The European Union lifted sanctions on Friday against six Libyan ports, allowing humanitarian relief and trade to resume to the nation in the wake of the violent revolt against the regime of Muammar G

Former Rear Adm. Wendi Carpenter on Thursday became the first female president of State University of New York Maritime College, the country’s largest and oldest maritime college.

The Coast Guard on Thursday closed the Port of Mobile's shipping channel because of a heavy crude oil spill, preventing several vessels from leaving the port.

Westports Malaysia in the first half saw volume rise 17 percent year-over-year to 3.1 million 20-foot container equivalent, as the port operator expands at Malaysia's top container gateway.

The North Carolina ports of Morehead City and Wilmington were fully operational Tuesday after closures in advance of Hurricane Irene. 



APM Terminals will design, build and operate a large terminal in Costa Rica under a $992 million contract with the country’s government that APM said would launch the largest infrastructure proj

Avnet’s e-commerce arm unveiled features allowing customers to track their inventory in bonded warehouses and create customized order reports, as the major electronic distributor beefed up its s

APM Terminals agreed to sell half, or a 25 percent share, of its stake in China's Xiamen Songyu Container Terminal, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.

Regular international container services will partially resume next month at the most important port in the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku, which bore the brunt of the earthquake and tsunami i

China Merchants Holdings (International) doubled its first half profit year-over-year to $501.1 million, as the port operator’s container volume grew and it received a one-time gain linked to a

OOCL plans to increase productivity at its Kaohsiung Container Terminal in Taiwan by up to 10 percent by adding two super-post-Panamax gantry cranes to the existing six cranes.

International port companies face rising losses at Vietnam’s showpiece Cai Mep container port as terminals are operating at less than half of their capacity, according to industry analyst Alphal

Big Lots is comfortable with its inventory levels being down more than 70 percent year-over-year, considering the “fragile” consumer market.

Major East Coast ports re-opened Monday and trucking and railroad companies slowly resumed services as they began making a full assessment of damage to transportation operations that took the impact o

APL Logistics is taking a “cautious” outlook for the rest of the year and into 2012, despite a strong first half-year performance and growth in emerging markets and automotive logistics.

Toll Group’s net profit in the fiscal year June 30 rose 1 percent year-over-year to $281 million, as the Australia-based logistics firm was hurt by an economic slowdown in its home country, part

U.S. port officials in the Pacific Northwest, saying higher taxes are partly behind the loss of business to Canada, are urging grain shippers to support efforts to change federal cargo fees.

The head of the American Trucking Associations wants Govs.

DP World boosted first half after-tax profit by 36 percent from a year ago to $281 million, as the global port operator benefited from

Cosco Pacific’s first half gross profit jumped 71 percent to $119.3 million as the Hong Kong-listed company posted sharply improved results from its terminal operations and container leasing, ma

North Carolina’s ports of Wilmington and Morehead City will close noon Friday as the coast braces for the impact of Hurricane Irene and the 115 miles-per-hour winds expected to hit landfall abou

The top executive at New York Container Terminal on Staten Island is urging the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to provide a frequent-user discount for truckers whose bridge tolls will more

A 23.5 percent rise in exports pushed the Port of Tacoma’s loaded container volume up 10 percent in July from the same period a year ago.

Russia’s northwestern port of Murmansk has been put up for sale with a price tag of around $700 million.

Beleaguered shippers facing delays and congestion surcharges at the India’s Port of Chennai will have an alternative gateway in January.

Container truck drivers at India’s Port of Chennai ended their strike Tuesday night following intense negotiations between the strikers, port-terminal officials and trade representatives.

The congestion at cargo terminals in India’s Port of Chennai that has plagued ocean carriers and shippers over the past two months is set to worsen in the coming weeks because of another wildcat

Despite rising costs for manufacturers in coastal regions, China has vast potential for logistics companies and forwarders as government incentives open up interior regions, said a senior shipper repr

India plans to build seven ports by 2017, using 7.6 billion in public and private funds, according to reports

A longshoreman fell to his death in a breakbulk ship Saturday in the second fatal accident in eight days on the Philadelphia waterfront.

The Coast Guard is warning vessels and ports in South Florida to be prepared for gale force winds from Hurricane Irene within 48 hours.

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Jim Newsome is methodical and detailed in describing the 10-year, $1.3 billion capital improvement program at the Port of Charleston, but the South Carolina port’s president and CEO takes on som

In the Year of the Tiger, China showed its stripes.

Truck tolls at bridges and tunnels linking New Jersey and New York City will more than double over the next five years under an increase approved Friday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jerse

Cargo through Port of Rotterdam in the first half of the year increased 1 percent year-over-year to 215 million metric tons, as a 9.7 increase in container handling helped offset a decline in oil prod

Shifting trade patterns in the Far East and Southeast Asia may insulate ports in the region from the impact of weaker east-west trade as a result of the debt crisis in Europe and the faltering U.S.

The latest diesel emissions inventory released by the Port of Los Angeles shows that the Clean Air Action Plan reduced pollution more than 70 percent in 2010 even as cargo volume rose by 5 percent.

Container traffic at New Zealand’s Port of Tauranga rose 15.5 percent year-over-year to 590,506 20-foot equivalent container units in fiscal year 2011 ending June 30, as its transshipment volume