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The Long Beach City Council, brushing off strong opposition from shipping lines and terminal operators, voted to ask the Board of Harbor Commissioners to transfer $16.9 million of harbor revenue to th

A consortium led by global port-terminal operator PSA International won a contract to build and operate Saudi Arabia’s new container terminal in the Port of Dammam.

OOCL plans to stop providing chassis on Sept. 1 at six additional port and inland locations in the East and Midwest, including the Port of Charleston, S.C.

Cargo volume moving through major ports in India surged 7 percent during April to June compared with a year earlier, according to preliminary traffic figures released by the Indian Ports Association.

APM Terminals has taken control of the container terminal at Callao, paving the way for a major investment program to boost capacity at Peru’s largest port.

Donald J. Bowersox, one of the pioneers in the science and practice of logistics and supply chain management, died Monday in Traverse City, Mich. He was 79.

A sudden strike by container truck drivers Sunday morning crippled cargo movements to and from the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal, a DP World facility in India’s sout

APM Terminals has introduced a barge shuttle service to its Rotterdam terminal to avoid worsening traffic jams caused by construction work on highways circling Europe’s biggest container port.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach face the conundrum of having to run up to five night and weekend gates each week to prevent gridlock in the harbor, all while losing money every day they o

Container imports at the Port of Seattle fell back 27.8 percent in May from the same month a year ago in a broad decline in international shipping at Pacific Northwest ports.

Panalpina, the Swiss global forwarder and logistics group, vowed to outperform market growth in air and ocean freight and logistics, achieve a “remarkable” increase in productivity and hit

Inventory management has a dark secret: Forecasting isn’t only worthless; it also exacerbates the very problem it was designed to solve.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey saw its busiest shipping month in nearly a year in May as loaded container volume grew 5.7 percent over the same month a year ago.

Food products shipper Campbell Soup is making a series of supply chain moves in the U.S., Australia and Russia to consolidate plant operations and cut staff.

Global port-terminal operator PSA International is poised to win the contract to build and operate the fourth container terminal at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s largest

Neptune Orient Lines opened its new terminal at the Port of Qingdao on Wednesday with the arrival of the APL Dubai.

Imports through North Europe's six busiest ports will slow to 8 percent this year from 15.9 percent in 2010 while exports rise 10.9 percent, almost level with 2010, according to the monthly North Euro

Greek dockworkers are taking part in a 48-hour general strike and nationwide protests as Parliament debates budget cuts, tax hikes and asset sales to prevent the near bankrupt country defaulting on it

Container volume at the port of Savannah climbed by 10.1 percent in May from the same month last year, as the port handled 254,329 20-foot equivalent units, the Georgia Ports Authority said Monday.

Marine terminal operators at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are delaying a $10 per-container TEU increa

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks programs are nearing the end of their first phase, and despite many controversies, the initiatives exceeded all expectations and have set new standards for redu

When Hurricane Katrina barreled into Gulfport in August 2005, the 24-foot surge all but destroyed the Mississippi port’s container and bulk terminals, decimating 700,000 square feet of warehouse

Global Ports raised $534 million from an initial public offering in London valuing Russia’s biggest container terminal operator at $2.35 billion.

Long Beach’s chief engineer sees deepening the harbor to accommodate the world’s largest vessels, building large container terminals, expanding on-dock rail connectivity and establishing g

East and Gulf Coast ports, predicting they will increase their share of the U.S.-Asia trade when the Panama Canal expansion is complete in three years, made a big pitch to industrial real estate devel

India plans to set up a state-owned company capitalized at $557 million to invest in overseas ports and terminals to help boost international trade.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority approved its budget for fiscal year 2012, which projects a 6.6 percent increase in container volume and nearly $82 million in capital projects for the year.

Canada's Port Metro Vancouver reported a 7 percent increase in overall container traffic in the first five months of 2011, including 7 percent growth in trade between Canada to Asia.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is adding a call at the Italian port of Leghorn to its weekly MEDUSA service between the Mediterranean and the U.S. East Coast.

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ECT, Rotterdam’s biggest container terminal operator, denied reports that ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. acquired a significant stake in its largest facility.

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Combined container import volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 4.8 percent year-over-year in May, slower than the growth rate the month before and behind the 5.1 percent increase in

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India grew a mere 1 percent year-over-year in the first two months of fiscal 2011-12, the Indian Ports Association said Wednesday.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, racing to elevate the Bayonne Bridge, is “working towards a date of 2016” to complete the complex engineering project and clear a path for la

The Broward County Board of County Commissioners Tuesday authorized Port Everglades’ staff to begin talks with the Florida East Coast Railway toward development of an intermodal rail transfer fa

The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Tuesday approved a restructured lease with the Port Newark Container Terminal that will provide $500 million in private capital investment to

The head of PierPass gate operation at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports says the only pressure on capacity marine terminals comes when large numbers of truckers want to pick up or drop off contain

Container throughput in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) fell nearly 2 percent year-over-year in the April-May period, the first two months of fiscal 2011-12, the port authority sa

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