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The volume of containers handled by the Port of Wilmington, N.C.

Canadian longshoremen ratified a watershed contract that should guarantee labor peace at the country’s Pacific Coast ports for eight years.

Over 300 dockworkers at APM Terminals in the Spanish port of Algeciras on Monday stopped work to protest a wage cut announced by the terminal-operating arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk.

India’s Adani Group acquired Abbot Point Coal Terminal, a dedicated coal export facility, in Queensland, Australia, from North Queensland Bulk Ports.

Attendees at the March 31 Pulse of the Ports meeting in Long Beach saw a stark demonstration of what terminal operators believe is the cause of congestion at the port complex.

Caterpillar, a major global manufacturer of industrial, agricultural and transportation equipment including for trucking and rail markets, said it is "experiencing sporadic production disruptions at m

Two New York-New Jersey dockworkers have been sentenced after pleading guilty to submitting fraudulent time sheets for hours they didn’t work.

The Port of Los Angeles in the coming decade will spend more than $3 billion to deepen its access channel, expand marine terminals, add on-dock rail capacity and improve traffic flow through street an

Shanghai will expand the offshore Yangshan Deep Water Port as part of a plan to enhance the port services industry during the 12th Five-Year Plan, the city's port authority said Tuesday.

The Port of Long Beach Tuesday welcomed the newest trans-Pacific container line, Grand China Logistics, which is entering the increasingly competitive trade lane between China and the U.S.

The Japanese earthquake and tsunami will have only a small impact on European imports over the next year according to the Global Port Trac

Container traffic in Rotterdam grew 10 percent in the first quarter of 2011 from a year ago, driven mainly by strong growth in trade with Asia and a recovery in intra-European shipments.

APM Terminals is considering investing in a new Baltic Sea port in the Kaliningrad region of Russia, according to Russian government press material.

The hard-fought reform of French ports takes effect next week amid optimism the nation’s container hubs can win back traffic lost to foreign rivals during years of industrial unrest.

A five-day-old trucker strike at the Port of Shanghai eased significantly over the weekend following intervention by the mayor and a series of concessions offered to drivers, including a rollback of f

The Maritime Administration on Friday gave final approval to a Title XI loan guarantee for a $240 million, five-vessel export deal.

Labor activists in Northern California will hold a rally Monday in front of the Pacific Maritime Association headquarters in San Francisco to protest a court action earlier this month that was initiat

The container volume handled by the Port of Charleston increased 5.7 percent in March from a year earlier even though volume growth slowed from the 7 percent pace recorded in February.

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.