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UPDATE 4/8/11 4:00 p.m. -- The strike was called off Friday afternoon.

The Port of Houston Authority awarded nearly $35 million in contracts for design and construction of additional entry and exit gates for the Bayport container terminal.

Israel kicked off the long awaited privatization of the nation's state-owned sea ports by seeking bids to operate the Red Sea port of Eilat.

Container traffic through India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru reached an all-time high in fiscal 2010-11 ending March 31, buoyed by a strong turnaround in the country’s foreign trade.

The Port of Baltimore will get a leg up on many East Coast competitors next year when the new berth at the port’s Seagirt Marine Terminal opens two years ahead of schedule.

A consortium led by APM Terminals, the terminal-operating division of A.P.

Eight of the 14 container terminals at the Los Angeles-Long Beach ports, pointing to slow cargo volume since the Chinese New Year, have suspended one off-peak gate per week until demand picks up.

The port of Antwerp, Europe's second largest container hub, said it is taking "heightened precautions" over ships arriving from Japan that may have been contaminated by radioactive fallout from the

Having weathered seven years of environmental challenges and the worst economic downturn in the history of containerization, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are ready to grow.

The residents of Dover overwhelmingly voted in favor of a proposal for the local community to buy and operate Europe's biggest roll-on, roll-off freight port.

The earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands and devastated a swath of Japan is promising a deeper impact on the country’s economy and global supply chains, and triggering what experts say m

Gulf Coast ports have long been underserved in the main east-west trades, but are counting on their access to the Midwest and the South’s growing population to attract new carrier services.

Container volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach increased modestly in February compared to last year, with the Chinese New Year celebration taking a toll on imports from Asia.

UPDATED MARCH 11 AT 4:55 P.M. EST

U.S. West Coast ports started 2011 off with a bang, with total container volume in January up 13 percent over last January.

Combined containerized imports through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 13 percent in January over the same month a year ago, extending the strong recovery pace at the nation’s large

They are both good ol’ boys from the Southeast who returned to native ground after years afield to take on new jobs a little more than a year ago running the two biggest ports in the South Atlan

There’s been no shortage of argument and legal battling over the clean-trucks programs at Southern California’s ports, but there’s no dispute that the program has worked remarkably w

Port Corpus Christi passed an important hurdle Wednesday in its quest to move ahead with the huge Las Brisas electric generating plant that Chase Energy plans to build at the Texas port.

The Port of Seattle had a banner year in 2010, with containerized imports increasing 46.6 percent, containerized exports up 19.3 percent and total international containers up 34.9 percent.

The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority is slashing its request for a federal rail program loan to $83.7 million from an earlier $553 million, in a bid to lock in the federal credit to help rest

The Port of New York and New Jersey will close all its marine terminals on Wednesday as the port braces for a winter storm expected to drop up to a foot of snow on the region.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and APL launched a three-year trial of a seawater scrubber technology that promises significant reductions in harmful emissions from the auxiliary engines of co

The heavy rains in Southern California this past week caused mudslides and road closures throughout the region, but the harbor drayage community in Los Angeles-Long Beach kept on trucking.

Container traffic at Savannah and auto shipments at Brunswick, Ga., posted double-digit increases in November from last year’s volumes, the Georgia Port Authority said.

November container volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach indicate exports are building strongly while imports, though down compared to recent months, are still running at double-digits ahe

Although the banning of old, polluting trucks from the nation’s two largest ports appears to be a difficult requirement to circumvent, creative truckers in Southern Californi

Cargo volume moving through Los Angeles-Long Beach is slowing down in line with seasonal trends, but truck lines at marine terminals are getting longer.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach approved an update to their ground-breaking 2006 clean air action that calls for a significant reduction in pollution from vessels and line-haul locomotives.

Some drayage companies in Southern California are violating the spirit, if not the letter of the Los Angeles and Long Beach clean-truck requirements, and the ports intend to end these practices soon.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach recorded combined import growth of 15.4 percent in October, indicating some staying power as growth slowly slips back from an August peak in the shipping season

Strong container volumes through West Coast ports this year is good news for longshoremen who suffered through an unprecedented period of declining work opportunities in 2009.

In the battle to win discretionary cargo destined for the Midwest, the competition among East and West Coast ports can be cutthroat.

The Northern California ports of Oakland, Stockton and West Sacramento broke ground on the state's Green Trade Corridor, a project that will reduce pollution and help to relieve traffic congestion by

Trucking interests in Southern California appear to have scored a temporary victory Monday when U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

Vessel operators and railroads will shoulder a larger share of the burden as the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach seek to achieve ambitious pollution-reduction goals over the next 13 years.

When pickets from Philadelphia locals of the International Longshoremen’s Association shut down operations at container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey last month, they said the

For several years now, the risk of labor unrest has had a seemingly intractable place in decisions by carriers and shippers over the direction of import flows: The West Coast, with a tough-talking uni

The Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions postponed for about 30 days a vote on adopting an update to the ports' watershed Clean Air Action Plan.

Steel trade at Gulf ports took a pounding the past two years, mirroring the steep slide in the domestic steel industry and U.S.