Port News

Container throughput at the Port of Wilmington, N.C., increased 14 percent in June over the same month a year ago to 23,598 20-foot equivalent units.

RailAmerica said 34 of its customers in the first half of the year announced plans to build, expand or reopen facilities, generating more than 25,000 annual carloads for the short line operator within

Wal-Mart Stores says it reduced the impact of rising diesel fuel prices this spring by some two-thirds through transportation efficiency programs in its distribution network.

Canada National and Canadian Pacific railways’ new and expanded transload centers for stuffing lumber, logs and other products into containers bound for Asia will help the ports at Vancouver and

Container traffic at the Port of Singapore rose 4.7 percent in July to 2.6 million 20-foot equivalent container units from last year, giving the port its busiest month in at least 19 months.

Emirates Shipping Line is imposing a port congestion surcharge on import containers at India’s troubled Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru).

Containerized imports at the Port of Charleston jumped 11.8 percent in June compared to the same month a year ago but exports fell back 2.7 percent amid signs the slumping economy was affecting shippi

China Merchants Holdings is teaming up with two Sri Lankan partners to build a $500 million container terminal in the Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Container throughput at the Port of Hamburg jumped 17.4 percent in the first half of 2011 from the same six-month period last year, as carriers added new and expanded liner services consisting of larg

Container traffic at Spain’s Port of Algeciras Bay grew 3.9 percent to 1.5 million 20-foot equivalent units in the first half of the year from the same period a year ago, largely due to a record

Home improvement retailer Lowe’s, facing higher shipping costs and weakening sales, is ramping up a dramatic increase in online sales operations and shipping more goods directly to customers fro

Containerized imports declined a combined 2.3 percent at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in July compared to the same month last year, as the ports handling fell short of an especially strong

Nine container ship lines want the Federal Maritime Commission to order the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to quit collecting a fee that they claim illegally subsidizes intermodal rail ship

CEVA Logistics’ profit rose 24.6 percent to $115 million from the same period a year ago, as increased freight management business offset softening freight volumes.

The Port of Montreal bought two more multiple-generator locomotives that burn less fuel and produce less carbon emissions than previous models.

Import container volume at the Port of New York and New Jersey slipped 0.5 percent in June from the same month a year ago, the port's first monthly decline in 20 months.

Two longshore workers were killed in work accidents at Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in Philadelphia and Maher Terminals in Port Newark, N.J.

Harbor truckers have complained for years that marine terminal gates are a source of lengthy yet preventable delays in the transportation supply chain.

Epic problems this summer at India’s largest container port provide a stark example of the hurdles the country faces in raising its profile in world trade, and the reality-bending challenges to

Europe Container Terminals in Rotterdam is replacing its first-generation automated guided vehicles nearly 20 years after pioneering the use of the equipment to shuttle containers between container cr

Miami developers’ attempt to build high-rise condominiums at the site of terminals serving the Caribbean was thwarted after the Florida Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court’s ru

Logistec USA will invest $5 million in Georgia’s Port of Brunswick to expand its capacity to handle exports of biomass fuels made from Georgia’s wood and peanut pellets.

The Green Alliance, formerly known as the CKYH alliance, will discontinue in September its weekly container service to the Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia.

Singapore-based ocean carrier APL said it is struggling to connect exports via terminals in India’s Port of Chennai because of severe port congestion and yard delays.

The growing demand for port capacity over the next five years will outpace terminal expansion, leading to rapidly rising utilization levels at many ports, especially in the Far East and Southeast Asia

Trac Intermodal said it will expand its new damage-waiver program for leased chassis to New York-New Jersey and Baltimore on Sept. 1, and nationwide by year’s end.

The Port of Baltimore moved up the rankings of U.S. ports in 2010 in terms of the dollar value and the tonnage of the cargo it handled, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said Tuesday.

Hapag-Lloyd said Tuesday it will apply “port congestion surcharges” on all containerized cargo moving to and from Chennai, the second major Indian port to attract such charges in recent we

Global port operator International Container Terminal Services’ profit jumped 42 percent in the first six months of this year to $42.4 million, compared with the same period a year ago.

CMA CGM will invest $100 million in a major container transshipment hub in Jamaica in exchange for a 35-year lease at the Kingston Container Terminal, the Jamaica government said Friday.

Container traffic at major ports in India grew a mere 2 percent from April through July compared with a year earlier, according to the latest traffic data released by the Indian Ports Association.

As Harold Daggett basked in the applause of union delegates after his election as International Longshoremen’s Association president, loudspeakers came alive with the Sam Cooke classic “A

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The Longshore Workers Coalition, the intra-union group that has criticized International Longshoremen’s Association leadership, was relatively quiet during last month’s ILA convention in H

The first half of 2011 hasn’t been good for the Port of Virginia for reasons largely beyond its control.

A two-month longshoremen’s strike in 1977 left Harold Daggett so strapped he qualified for food stamps, but Daggett said he couldn’t tap family members for a loan “because they were

Geoffrey Giovanetti has a favorite East Coast port gateway for seaborne imports of wine and spirits destined for the Midwest, but he generally leaves the choice of ports and the intermodal facilities

Ports from Oakland, Calif., to New York are adopting clean-trucks programs that will require independent owner-operators who in many cases make $35,000 a year or less to shell out more than $50,000 fo

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Friday proposed raising tolls on bridge and tunnels crossing Hudson River by as much as 50 percent to pay for capital expenses, including the massive p

Crowley Maritime plans to add roll-on, roll-off service to Tampa in September as part of the carrier’s Central American service, which handles ro-ro, breakbulk and project cargo.