Port News

The Port of Rotterdam Authority detected no radiation above prescribed standards on five vessels that left Japan after March 14

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah increased 4.5 percent in March from the same month last year, at the same time as the number of roll-on, roll-off units passing through the Por

All marine terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey will be closed Friday, April 22 because of the Good Friday holiday observed by the International Longshoremen's Association, said the

Negotiators for the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement covering the ports on

China Shipping Container Line on Monday completed the first phase of an expansion project at its Los Angeles terminal, demonstrating to elected officials and the neighboring community that a marine te

APM Terminals moved into the fast expanding Black Sea container market with the acquisition of a majority stake in Georgia's Poti Sea Port

While East and Gulf coast ports deepen their harbors and expand container terminals to prepare for the mega-ships expected to call when the Panama Canal is enlarged in 2014, the challenge for West Coa

First-quarter container throughput at the port of Antwerp climbed 7.9 percent from the same quarter last year, as its terminal handled a record volume of 2.17 million 20-foot-equivalent units, compare

Combined imports at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles grew 2.5 percent in March compared to the same month a year ago, a sharp slowdown that included a 7.5 percent drop in import container volum

A proposed deal to privatize the Port of Galveston fell through.

Virginia is dangling its 50-foot-deep harbor as a fisherman dangles a lure.

The International Longshoremen's Association called off a threatened strike at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

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.