Port News

Strong fruit exports, especially melons, are driving growth at the northeast Brazilian port of Pecem this year.

US exporters are scrambling to find containers, with some coming up empty-handed.

The Southern California mayors emphasized that their ports will remain competitive.

Stakeholder efforts to increase price transparency and drive down logistics costs for shippers using terminals at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) are gaining further momentum.

Throughput at the country’s ports grew faster than expected.

Average container ship sizes through the Panama Canal have increased by roughly 47.5 percent to 6,000 TEU since the June 26 opening of the Panama Canal’s larger lock.

The two sides failed to reach agreement at their last meeting on June 1.

Halifax had been looking to renew its lease on life after a rough winter in 2014 and later failing to benefit from the severe congestion at US West Coast ports that diverted so much Asia cargo to the East Coast. Consider that lease renewed.

Mario Cordero last month returned to his hometown of Long Beach with a singular mission.

The project would involve greenfield and brownfield container and bulk terminals.

The capacity addition will add excess to a market that has become oversupplied.

The closure caused heavy losses for shippers, carriers, and terminal operators.

US retailers are expecting US import volumes to hit record levels in the coming months.

In the United States, there was basically one chassis model from the beginning of containerization in the 1950s until 2009.

Thilawa has become an important maritime gateway for Myanmar.

The end-to-end transport solution introduced in conjunction with rail operator Container Corporation of India (Concor) includes all cargo processes.

The fuel does not require any modification to vessels and emits 25 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2) than standard marine fuel.

The future of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad has been a top concern of port officials and businesses for nearly two years.

Volume reached a new monthly high of 47,000 TEU in May.

The move comes amid a diplomatic row between Qatar and four of its neighbors.

The Seattle-Tacoma alliance will purchase an additional four cranes to enable its ports to better handle mega-ships.

The new low-profile gantry cranes cost a total of $41.4 million and come with an option for the port to purchase an additional three cranes anytime within five years.

The port forecasts traffic will grow to 339,000 TEU by 2019 and 2020.

Chennai’s rail share in the first two fiscal months was slightly higher than that in the same period of 2016.

The guilty ruling allows shippers impacted by the practices to seek financial compensation from the stevedores via Russian courts.

Portland has been without weekly container services since 2015.

“We can’t control the economy worldwide, but we can grow our market share in a down world economy.”

The strikes follow months of slowdown.

The agreement calls for an investigation into the possibility of establishing a rail connection between the two ports.

The country’s 12 major ports together handled 1.5 million TEU during April and May.

The new scheme is part of the Japanese government’s efforts to increase the country’s annual exports of agricultural.

Shippers could face losses that run into tens of millions of dollars.

More drayage companies at the Port of New York and New Jersey are buying their own chassis or signing long-term leases to avoid the difficulty of rental pools.

The Panama Canal Authority plans to implement a reduced toll schedule for Atlantic-to-Pacific backhauls.

The slowing volume trend comes as JNPT looks to reach throughput of 4.8 million TEU in the current fiscal year.

The two ports rank among Japan's top 10.

The Hambantota project is one of several Chinese backed ports in the Indian Ocean.

The Port of Philadelphia by the end of the year could be hosting ships of up to 14,400 TEU.

The first phase of the development includes an 800-meter (2,625 feet) berth and a 131-acre container yard with a capacity of 1 million TEU.

The union last week canceled five of eight days of planned strikes between May 24 and June 9.