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Harold Daggett took over as president of the International Longshoremen’s Association on Thursday with a vow to fight automation, increase organizing and research activities, aggressively enforc

The Commonwealth of Virginia is offering shippers a tax credit for moving containers off the highways to the marine highway or railways, Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton said Tues

The president of the West Coast longshore union pledged cooperation with the International Longshoremen’s Association and criticized other unions he said were poaching dockworker jobs.

A new slate of eight directors was sworn in as new members of the board of the Virginia Port Authority on Tuesday, which will be headed by a new chairman, Michael J.

The volume of containers handled by at terminals operated by the Guangzhou Port Group increased by 10.3 percent year-over-year in the first half of 2011 to 5.2 million 20-foot equivalent units.

The International Longshoremen’s Association and management should consider separate contracts for short-sea shipping and proprietary cargo such as bananas, management’s chief negotiator t

Management officials urged the International Longshoremen’s Association to work with employers to compete with West Coast ports and attract the investment Atlantic and Gulf ports need to benefit

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Tacoma dropped by 11 percent in June compared to the same month a year ago, reflecting the sluggish trends in the U.S.

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), which is struggling to cope with increased congestion, unveiled plans to build a fifth container terminal to accommodate a projected significant g

DP World said an 11 percent jump in container traffic in the first half of the year will deliver “significant improvement” to the Dubai-based terminal operator’s earnings in the peri

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard Lidinsky said the FMC has been asked by West Coast members of the U.S.

Dennis Daggett, son of International Longshoremen’s Association president-in-waiting Harold Daggett, is the new president of the ILA’s Atlantic Coast District, which covers ports from Main

Hamburg Sud will stop providing chassis for merchant haulage in and around the Port of Oakland as of Sept.

Container, auto and breakbulk volumes at Georgia’s two deep-water ports surged at double-digit rates in the 12 months of the fiscal year ended June 30, the Georgia Ports Authority reported Monda

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell replaced 10 out of the 11 members on the board that oversees the Virginia Port Authority in an effort to spur lagging volume and revenue.

Severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) spurred major ocean carriers to skip calls at the port and reroute ships to Mundra, a privately-owned cargo hub farth

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will replace fewer old trucks than expected under a $28 million clean-air initiative but says the program is a success and may be a forerunner of similar

The largest export coal shipment ever handled by the Port of Mobile sailed early Friday, highlighting the Alabama State Port Authority’s recent investments into the McDuffie Coal Terminal.

The Tampa Port Authority’s board this week agreed to spend $12.9 million to expand the port’s container-handling capacity and inland connectors.

The largest Maersk Line container ship ever to call Indian shores arrived Thursday at the Port of Cochin, a major cargo hub on the India’s southeast coast.

Container traffic at the port of Marseille shrunk 9 percent in the first half of 2011 from a year ago largely due to

The Port of Antwerp’s container handling increased 4.3 percent year-over to 20-foot equivalent units in the first six months of 2011, port authority said Wednesday.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will be the anchor customer of a new terminal at the Port of Lome, Togo, with annual capacity of 1.5 million 20-foot equivalent units, according to a published report.

Dick Steinke helped to build Long Beach into the nation’s second largest container port during his 14 years as executive director, but one of his proudest moments came in 2003 when he and his st

A federal judge threw a new twist into the battle over clean-trucks programs at Southern California ports, ruling the Po

Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster expects a proposed transfer of $16.9 million of harbor revenue to the city’s tidelands operating fund will take place despite strong shipping industry opposition..

Total Transportation Services, a Long-Beach, Calif-based port drayage company, plans to buy 100 hydrogen fuel cell plug-in e

Imports into the Port of Los Angeles fell 10.2 percent in June from the same month a year ago, throwing a new cloud over the U.S.

Private investors, returning to the global port industry following the credit crunch, are targeting projects in Africa, India and Latin America, as investment in Chinese ports becomes trickier, accord

Containerized imports at the Port of Long Beach increased 3.5 percent in June over the same month a year ago, the slowest rate since March, and fell back 1.5 percent from May, according to port figure

Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. said Wednesday it will launch a tender offer for Portek International.

Truckers are checking in ocean containers at a Hamburg terminal in an average of 130 seconds thanks to a recently installed self-service system designed to cut down waiting times at Germany’s la

Trade and transportation groups in Southern California are urging the Port of Long Beach not to transfer $16.9 million in harbor rev

Singapore terminal operator PSA International said Friday it will manage a new container terminal in Cuba, currently under construction in the port of Mariel on the island’s northern coast.

The regulator of economic disputes between railroads and their freight shippers has slashed its filing fee structure, meaning rail customers can file a major challenge to freight rates for $350 instea

A five-day-old trucker strike at India's Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal ended late Wednesday following talks between union leaders and terminal operator DP World.

CMA CGM has started providing intermodal rail service between the Belgian port of Zeebrugge and the tri-modal hub in Duisburg, Germany.