Port News

The Port of Seattle reported blockbuster results in container traffic for December, with imports growing 32.6 percent and exports doubling even as other Pacific Northwest ports still showed the effect

Containerized exports in Southern California soared in December, increasing 40.2 percent over December 2008 at the Port of Los Angeles and 30.9 percent at the Port of Long Beach.

North Carolina’s Morehead City port remained closed for a second day Wednesday as authorities sought to clean up a hazardous materials accident scene that forced the facility to shut down the da

The Port of Morehead City, N.C., was closed and evacuated Tuesday following an accident involving hazardous materials.

The popular PierPass program giving shippers incentives to move cargo at off-peak hours through Southern California ports may no longer be justified because of reduced cargo volumes, the U.S.

If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year should dispel a

The U.S. Commerce Department is sending grant money to port and rail projects in states around the Gulf of Mexico to help the region’s recovery efforts from two hurricanes in 2008.

Rite Aid says an ongoing effort to improve its logistics and distribution management helped the drug store chain cut its loss in the recent fiscal third quarter some 67 percent despite falling sales.

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A longshore worker at the Norfolk, Va., port died Tuesday when a mobile container carrier knocked into a light pole, sending it crashing onto the man’s vehicle.

A modest recovery in container volume appears to be underway at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and exports are leading the way.

Logistics and distribution real estate providers have had plenty of reasons to feel pessimistic lately.

Gulf Coast ports are hunkering down for the late-season storm Ida, with larger vessels set to take extra precautions and shipping brought to a standstill even as the tropical storm appears to be losin

When the Port of Oakland submitted its application for a TIGER grant under the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program, the Northern California port wanted to differentiate itself from the hu

Like the competitive battle between East, Gulf and West Coast ports for discretionary cargo, ports in the Pacific Northwest compete for volume with Southern California’s ports of Los Angeles and Long

The Port of New York and New Jersey is unique in many ways, and one is in the hiring of longshoremen.

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma reported mixed results in September container volumes although the trend lines are generally positive.

The Port of Los Angeles’s task of defending its clean-trucks plan against a lawsuit by the American Trucking Associations got suddenly more difficult on Oct.

The battle to organize harbor truck drivers at U.S.

When logistics industry analyst Steve Banker prepares a report on strategy and trends in supply chains for consumer goods or beverages, he knows where to start.

When APM Terminals opened its highly automated $500 million container terminal in Portsmouth, Va., in the fall of 2007, it presented a direct competitive threat to the three state-owned and operated c

On a recent Wednesday afternoon at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the departures board showed a single flight to Beijing — right above five listings for Bentonville, Ark.

The Port of Corpus Christi’s long-delayed plan to build a container terminal on a 1,100-acre tract of land called the La Quinta Trade Gateway is being resuscitated as part of a multi-phase, mixed-use

Users of East and Gulf Coast ports are looking forward to three years of labor peace between the International Longshoremen’s Association and waterfront employers.

West Coast ports, and especially Los Angeles-Long Beach, will have to significantly improve their productivity and establish a reputation for reliability if they are to avoid a further loss of market

Having already lost about four percent of their market share of Asian cargo to Canadian and East Coast ports the past few years, and hoping to avoid a further diversion of cargo when the Panama Canal

The U.S. Gulf’s proximity to Central America has long kept the region’s ports busy with imports of perishable melons, cantaloupes, bananas and other fruits and vegetables.

Chicken’s popularity among global consumers is proving largely recession-resistant, propping up poultry exporters and the Gulf ports and terminals they use.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the founders of Canada’s Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative should be proud of their work.

Fifteen years ago, no one worried whether container ships were too tall to clear the Bayonne Bridge.

Washington supporters of trucking and shipper interests are girding themselves for a stealth attack from adversaries that want to push legislation through Congress that gives port authorities the righ

For the first time in decades, the share of total U.S.

Fixing the low air draft of the Bayonne Bridge so that new, large ships can serve the Port of New York and New Jersey’s four terminals will be neither quick nor cheap. The U.S.

In its 2004 report entitled “Harboring Pollution: The Dirty Truth About U.S.

Cargo volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in August increased over the previous month as the nation's two largest ports prepared for what is expected to be a short peak shipping season.

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles intend soon to eliminate a reporting requirement that cargo interests said was an unnecessary and costly administrative burden associated with the ports' clean-

The Houston area’s container-hauling drayage truckers will be both targets and beneficiaries of a revolving fund to finance clean-truck upgrades or purchases of new rigs, under a $9 million stim

Container volumes at West Coast ports in July lagged far behind last year's numbers.

Bolstered by a two-year track record of reducing pollution, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are finally positioned to move forward on billions of dollars of capital projects.