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Almost three months after the Jan.

Transportation interests agree that West Coast ports are well-positioned to capture a significant share of the cargo growth that will occur in the coming years, but they emphasized that the ports must

In support of President Obama’s call to double U.S. exports in five years, the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma said they provided suggestions for the National Export Initiative to U.S.

Coming off a year with container and breakbulk volume flat at best, Gulf container ports from Tampa to Texas are positioning themselves for future opportunities.

Just as an underdog sports rival wants to win the big game against a major competitor, it seems every port in North America wants to take cargo away from Los Angeles-Long Beach.

The devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile could not have come at a worse time for exporters of perishable fruit.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will ban the oldest drayage trucks from its terminals next Jan. 1 but won’t force owner-operator drivers to become company employees.

Southern California air quality regulators are proposing “backstop” rules to ensure the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach achieve the diesel emission goals established in their joint Cle

Attention to environmental issues such as carbon footprints could play an increasing role in sourcing decisions.

When economist Jeff Rubin wrote in 2008 that “the explosion in global transport costs has effectively offset all the trade liberalization efforts of the last three decades,” shippers and c

Carlos Arias knows his place in the apparel supply chain. His Guatemalan company makes denim jeans for Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch and other U.S.

Rising freight rates, volatile fuel prices, fluctuating currencies, slow transits, missed vessel loadings — it’s enough to make any company think about restructuring supply chains by

Horizon Lines is close to a decision on whether to shift its weekly New York-New Jersey port calls for the carrier's Puerto Rico service to Philadelphia or Jacksonville, CEO Charles G.

Container volume at the Port of Long Beach increased in January for the second straight month, while total traffic in neighboring Los Angeles was down only 2.39 percent.

When it comes to rapid response to a disaster the magnitude of the Haiti earthquake, size matters.

It’s not the last mile that’s the logistics challenge in Haiti; it’s the last yard.

For shippers and carriers in the U.S.-Southeast Asian trade lanes, the best times are yet to come.

Ports, cities and labor unions are sharply at odds not only with each other but within their own ranks over efforts to overhaul regulation of harbor trucking, and the rifts will make it even harder fo

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.

LONG BEACH, Calif.

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

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

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

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 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