Port News

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach will maintain the PierPass traffic mitigation fee at the current level of $50 per TEU despite declining cargo volumes.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, long viewed as the most fee-focused ports in the country, will not initiate their proposed infrastructure fee anytime soon.

Port workers and truck drivers only need one Florida criminal background check instead of multiple, duplicate checks to work at three South Florida seaports.

Hard hit by a steep drop-off in coal shipments, which account for about half the port’s business during normal years, the Alabama State Port Authority announced today that it is laying off 86 do

Clean diesel and liquefied natural gas trucks now handle 52 percent of the containers moving through the Port of Long Beach, according to a study released by the port.

Harbor trucking companies in Los Angeles and Long Beach should meet the Jan.

The Port of Tampa is planning to tear down its ailing 35-year-old Harborside cold storage facility and concentrate on container cargo rather than breakbulk perishables.

Containerized imports at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles fell 22.3 percent in June, the steepest combined decline at the nation’s largest port complex since March, according to figures r

Hampton Boulevard offers a winding, often scenic path from Norfolk, Va., to Portsmouth, taking just six miles to go from one port terminal to another through bustling neighborhoods that include a hosp

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expanding its incentive program to get ocean shippers to use rail, offering $25 per container for new business booked on the authority’s ExpressRail sy

The Florida Department of Transportation plans to build a dedicated truck ramp from the Port of Tampa to the interstate as part of a $600 million Interstate 4 – Crosstown Expressway Connector project

West Coast ports want Congress and the Obama administration to look beyond highways and bridges and include more funding for seaports in the next surface transportation act.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are working overtime to change their reputation among cargo interests as being the nation’s high-cost, business-adverse gateway for trade with Asia.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are on track to achieve many of the environmental goals in their clean-trucks program almost four years ahead of schedule, thanks to an aggressive strategy for

The Port of Long Beach can “live with” a court order limiting its ability to impose concession plans on the harbor trucking industry, but will fight to keep what it considers key elements

At a time when federal support for high-speed rail is grabbing headlines, the nation needs to pay more attention to its ports, says the head of one of the nation’s largest container ports.

West Coast waterfront employers are bracing for a 30 percent increase in the assessments that fund longshore benefits programs, unless last-minute deals can be worked out with the union and federal re

The California Air Resources Board is prepared to help the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach subsidize purchases of low-emission trucks, but CARB does not want the ports’ clean-trucks fees to be a h

The marine terminal operating industry is perplexed by the deal Ports America struck with the Port of Oakland in March.

Port of Long Beach employees must take off five days of work without pay by the end of the port’s fiscal year on Sept. 30, the port confirmed.

Frederick Potter is assuming his new position as director of the Teamsters’ port division with humility and a keen awareness of the magnitude of the task that lies ahead.

The hazy regulatory skies that have hovered over harbor trucking for 30 years are becoming a bit clearer thanks to recent federal court rulings in California.