Port News

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.

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