Top 25 North American Ports

Cargo interests can be assured of stability at Northern California's Port of Oakland.

A trucker advocacy group at the Port of New York and New Jersey is preparing to launch a system to track terminal turn times in an effort to prod terminals into reducing delays.

The Savannah River channel reopened for commercial traffic Wednesday.

Peak season finally arrives in the trans-Pacific.

The intensity of industrial real estate activity around the Georgia port underscores the strong demand nationally for logistics properties as well as shipper implementation of long-term plans to use Southeast versus West Coast ports to access inland markets.

The Port of Charleston and the state of South Carolina over the next decade will spend a combined $2.2 billion to handle New Panamax ships.

Jon Slangerup has resigned from his position as Port of Long Beach CEO.

Tropical Storm Hermine expected to cross Florida, head up US East Coast.

Asia’s transshipment hubs are facing turbulent times.

The congestion that crippled West Coast ports in 2015 temporarily derailed the progress in reducing pollution at the Port of Long Beach.

The U.S. federal government, with the help of shippers and others, is trying to come to grips with how to improve port productivity.

The Georgia Ports Authority has extended its five-year agreement with Consolidated Chassis Management’s South Atlantic Chassis Pool.

Beneficial cargo owners are lauding a peak-season program of flex and late gates.

Laden imports at the Port of Long Beach declined in July, as high inventories and uncertainty in the shipping industry created headwinds for demand in the first month of the traditional trans-Pacific peak season.

July imports in Los Angeles and Oakland bode well for peak season.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Thursday gave a huge boost to beneficial cargo owners looking for long-term labor stability.

The International Longshoremen’s Association won't discuss a contract extension until disputes over the current contract are resolved.

Global container traffic will likely grow at the second-slowest rate since 2009.

A historic International Longshore and Warehouse Union caucus that could solidify the role of the West Coast as the preferred and natural gateway for U.S. trade with Asia will convene Wednesday in San Francisco.

Pushback against terminal operators' proposed chassis gate fee in Los Angeles-Long Beach intensifies.

Ports in the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest are planning feverishly for the larger cargo surges they know will occur in the coming years from big ships operated by powerful carrier alliances.

Angry Mexican teachers are blockading some of the country's railways, leaving thousands of containers stranded.

The Port of Long Beach says its power needs won't be threatened by ongoing green efforts.

Virginia's port will get more capacity and an operational overhaul.

Hutchison Port Holdings has spelled out its SOLAS policy at four Mexican terminals.

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a fiscal year 2016 and 2017 budget.

Ports on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts have been deepening their harbors and channels and expanding infrastructure, preparing for the opening of the Panama Canal’s big new locks.

U.S. state governments have allocated substantial amounts to ports within their borders in recent years as a spur to economic development.

JOC.com examined changes in market share by analyzing data from PIERS, a sister product of JOC.com within IHS.

For the second consecutive year, no U.S. West Coast port achieved double-digit growth or even made the Top 10 fastest-growing ports among the JOC Top 25 North American container ports in 2015.

The onset of new resin production in the Gulf Coast region will be good news for Gulf Winds International. The Houston-based distribution company expects booming petrochemical plant construction in the region to lead to a surge in containerized exports and transloading.

The visionary Global Trade and Logistics Complex that will revolutionize the transfer of cargo between vessels and truck and rail transportation on the West Coast is taking shape in the middle of the Port of Oakland.

Canada's largest port could run into a "brick wall" limiting maritime expansion in coming years, unless provincial rules restricting land use can modified and some local political ill-will overcome.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s claims of discriminatory hiring at the Port of New York and New Jersey were “baseless” and “misleading.”

Container volume at the port of Savannah rose an unexpectedly strong 8.1 percent in February, but Georgia Ports Authority CEO Curtis Foltz said year-over-year comparisons will become tougher during the next three months.

The Port of Oakland Commission Thursday approved a $1.5 million program to help fund night and weekend gates during the next 12 weeks when Outer Harbor Terminals will transition out of the port and its cargo volume is redistributed to other facilities.

APM Terminals plans to retrofit at least five cranes at its Pier 400 terminal at Los Angeles to make them capable of handling fully laden mega-ships of up to 20,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units.

In a sign that U.S. container volumes in 2016 could turn out better than forecast, the Port of Los Angeles last month handled 704,398 twenty-foot-equivalent units, making it the busiest January in the port’s history.

Electrification of container terminals is hugely expensive, but for large ports such as Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland, it may be the only way to handle growing cargo volumes in a sustainable manner, the vice president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association said Monday.

Big increases in loaded import containers and empty export boxes pushed the Port of New York and New Jersey’s 2015 volume to a record 6,371,720 twenty-foot-equivalent units, despite soft December totals and continuing problems with congestion.