Port News

The executive directors of the nation’s two largest container ports intend to address one of their most vexing and embarrassing problems – slow turn times at marine terminal gates.

The Port of Jacksonville, Fla., will receive an additional $7.7 million and the ports of Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga., will get $2.5 million each for work on their deepening projects, the

Container throughput at the Port of Wilmington jumped 11.2 percent last year from the previous year, as the North Carolina port handled more imports and exports of agricultural products.

A labor dispute at APM Terminals in Rotterdam that has disrupted shipping at one of Europe’s largest container handling facilities for more than a week shows no sign of an early end.

A federal appeals court affirmed a lower court’s decision that the New York Shipping Association acted prematurely in challenging a port crime watchdog agency’s plan for independent monito

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said the ILA will enter this year’s contract negotiations seeking guaranteed minimum staffing and protection against job c

HHLA, Hamburg’s biggest stevedore, boosted container traffic 21.3 percent in 2011 from a year ago, significantly outpacing growth in Antwerp and Rotterdam to boost its market share in the fierce

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union members on Tuesday will help load the first vessel to arrive at the new EGT export grain terminal in Longview, Wash., putting an end to months of rancor

Worldwide smartphone shipment volume jumped 54.7 percent in the fourth quarter to 157.8 million units, spurred by the release of new products that provided a flood of new electronics shipping last yea

Bridgestone plans to open a $575 million factory in 2014 near the Vietnamese city of Hai Phong, as the coastal city becomes a major export gateway for multinational corporations.

About 90 miles west of the North Carolina coast rests the sprawling airport of Kinston, which boasts the longest jet runway between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.

Container throughput in 2011 at the Port of Prince Rupert jumped 20 percent year-over-year, while the emerging gateway's larger West Coast rival, Port Metro Vancouver, saw flat traffic in the same per

Some operations at the Port of Seattle are feeling the impact of a push by harbor truck drivers for changes in their pay and positions.

EGT recognized the Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 as the bargaining representative for workers at the new grain export terminal in Longview, Wash., signalling the wind-down of one of the most

Maersk Inc., the U.S. arm of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, agreed to sell Direct ChassisLink, its chassis-leasing subsidiary, to the private equity firm Littlejohn & Co.

The need for refrigerated and express supply chain services will help drive overall Chinese demand for logistics services up 9 percent by the end of 2013, according to a recent industry analysis.

Maersk Line will replace a call at Zeebrugge, Belgium, with an Antwerp port call on service connecting the Middle East, India and Europe, starting in mid-February.

Transport Corporation of India said Thursday its net profit in the third quarter of fiscal year 2011 rose 15 percent year-over-year to $2.75 million, as a rise in revenue helped offset increased opera

OOCL plans to quit providing chassis for the drayage of import and export containers at facilities in the New York City metropolitan area and in Rochester, N.Y. as of April 1.

The opening of an intermodal rail container transfer facility at the Port of Everglades came closer to fruition after a county board of commissioners approved a 30-year deal with the Florida East Coas

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The South Carolina Senate voted unanimously Tuesday to rebuke Gov.

Yusen Logistics’s net profit surged 14.7 percent in the first nine months of fiscal 2011, which started on April 1, 2011, as the Japanese forwarder saw revenue jump 90.9 percent in the same peri

Fesco booked double-digit growth across its ocean container, rail, port terminal and intermodal units in 2011 as it benefited from soaring transport demand in a strengthening Russian economy.

Steven Cernak, CEO and director of the Port of Galveson, will lead Port Everglades.

Marseilles again fell short of its 1 million container target in 2011 as traffic declined 1 percent from a year ago even as France’s biggest port booked a 3 percent increase in total cargo throu

Container throughput last year at the Port of New Orleans rose 11.6 percent to set a cargo record for the second straight year, as exports, particularly chemical and agriculture products, surged.

Container throughput at the South Korea’s Busan port in 2011 rose 14 percent year-over-year, and the North Asian transhipment hub expects more than 8 percent traffic growth this year.

DP World, the world’s third largest container terminal operator, boosted traffic by 10 percent in 2011 from a year ago on strong growth in emerging markets, prompting a forecast that core earnin

Toll Global Forwarding dismissed on Monday Teamsters union charges that the logistics company pays its employee drivers in Southern California below market rates and is trying to delay the u

Cargo interests and customs brokers complained to the Federal Maritime Commission that trucking companies in Los Angeles-Long Beach are still charging a clean-truck fee even though the ports stopped c

The Port of Antwerp is at a standstill as dockers at Europe’s third-largest container port participate in a nationwide 24-hour general strike.

Container shipments at Piraeus nearly doubled in 2011 from the previous year as surging volume at a Cosco Pacific-controlled terminal helped Greece’s largest port recoup some of the Mediterranea

The Indonesian government’s cancellation of a plan to build a container terminal in Jakarta is fueling fears that the country’s failure to improve its infrastructure will constrain economi

South Carolina’s House of Representatives is trying to reverse the approval by the state’s environmental agency of a permit to allow the deepening of the Savannah River to 48 feet by the U

The Georgia Ports Authority will buy four new electric-powered rubber-tired gantry cranes and retrofit other RTGs in the Port of Savannah to reduce fuel consumption, emissions and maintenance costs.

The port of Antwerp faces a shutdown Monday as Belgian dockers participate in a nationwide 24-hour general strike against a government austerity program that will halt rail freight traffic and close

Imperial Logistics boosted its presence in southern Africa through the acquisition of two transport companies for undisclosed sums.

Pantos Logistics expects to grow volume 10 percent this year and gradually emerge as one of the world’s top 10 logistics providers, despite an expected slowdown in global economic growth.

The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners promoted two employees who have been highly involved in expanding the port.