Port News

The Harbor Trucking Association and other California groups are backing proposed legislation that would strengthen an existing law that limits the circumstances when container fees can be charged.

While major terminals and depots in Shenzhen and Shanghai are operating, productivity is being affected by port workers quarantining at home and tougher restrictions on truck drivers.

Rather than a fixed fortification like the Maginot Line, Long Beach’s Pier B facility will be a versatile and adaptable tool to help handle future volume growth, the port’s executive director says.

Historically, Indian containerized inbound volumes have exceeded containerized exports by a quantifiable margin, creating headhaul-backhaul trade imbalances.

Transshipment trade development had been a challenge for India’s DP World Cochin since it opened a decade ago, but tariff incentives and coastal network expansion has changed that.

The state of New York has filed with the US Supreme Court to stop New Jersey from leaving a bi-state police agency that has authority over hiring and firing at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The need to share data among supply chain participants has become a priority amid record volumes of US imports that have resulted in vessel backlogs, terminal congestion, and a stressed inland logistics sector.

The Port of Mobile is receiving $200 million in federal funds that will boost major projects designed to make it an inland intermodal gateway.

The Port of Vancouver, still hobbled from recent weather disruptions, is bracing for a flare up in port and rail congestion as import volumes are forecasted to spike this week.

A proposed mega-vessel container terminal in southern Louisiana has secured its first investment for a rail spur as it aims to get other financial backing.

Fresh disruptions loom on cargo shipped from China as authorities enact widespread lockdowns amid a new surge in COVID-19 cases in key port cities.

Yang Ming is extending waivers on fees related to import containers lingering at marine terminals because of congestion, which truckers claim is due to empty boxes.

Projections from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach show that after a lull of several weeks during the Lunar New Year holidays, import volumes will surge 30 to 60 percent later this month.

DP World’s efforts to reach shippers directly through logistics and technology acquisitions is visible in the growth of its non-port-operating revenue last year.

Longshore union representatives have told the Federal Maritime Commission that better data sharing would create more labor efficiency and provide the ability to better handle unexpected situations on the docks.

Drayage provider NEXT Trucking is piloting a peel pile program in Southern California that links vessel stowage at origin with quick unloading of containers at warehouse destinations to narrow total transit times for shipments.

RoadOne IntermodaLogistics said a new transload facility that will open in August less than six miles from the Port of Virginia will help meet the growing need for e-commerce fulfillment close to consumers.

Canada’s federal government will partially fund a new container exam station at the Port of Halifax which aims to speed up container flow off its docks.

The Alabama Port Authority will receive $38 million in a federal grant that will go toward attracting new warehousing and improving truck access in and around the Port of Mobile.

The Port of Charleston is opening Sunday truck gates and adding longer operating hours on other days in an attempt to clear its terminals of import containers and pare down the queue of vessels outside its harbor.

The Port of Oakland and the Northwest Seaport Alliance have lent support to a Long Beach initiative designed to capture and make available container milestone information.

As the July 1 expiration of the current contract looms, the lack of reassuring signals from labor and management against a backdrop of still-heavy port congestion is leading importers to begin to shift away from the West Coast.

Outgoing White House port envoy John Porcari told TPM22 that lasting improvements to US port performance will need more than just the short-term changes he helped implement.

Most of the world’s major carriers have now suspended shipments to and from Russia, severely restricting commercial maritime access to the country in the aftermath of its invasion of Ukraine.

Growing truck queues are snarling operations at India’s main container port, raising the prospect of delays to both imports and exports and putting reefer shipments at risk.

A reconfigured chassis pool will launch in 2023 covering three Southeast US ports, aiming to replace an aging fleet with new and refurbished chassis containing the latest technology and safety features.

Ocean carriers have been bouncing ship calls between Savannah and Charleston due to the congestion affecting both ports, but the moves present a logistical challenge for exporters.

Labor and transportation representatives in Oakland strongly oppose a proposed baseball stadium and condo project at Howard Terminal that they say would result in an operational nightmare at the port.

The Port of Savannah will compete dredging work within a couple weeks to deepen its harbor to 47 feet and expand storage capacity by 2.7 million TEU by 2024, the Georgia Ports Authority said Thursday.

Europe’s busiest container port was able to shrug off congestion and fewer ship arrivals to report rising container volume in 2021.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted the closure of the country’s main port of Odessa, forcing container carriers to divert vessels.

The Port of Charleston is not accepting export loads in the Wando Welch Terminal during the morning on Thursday and Friday as it struggles with a shortage of terminal space and faces a backlog of more than 30 vessels anchored outside its harbor

The South Carolina Ports Authority has proposed converting of one of three International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) locals from part-time to full-time work in exchange for the ILA settling its dispute over work performed at the new Leatherman terminal in Charleston.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach believe they have turned the corner on unprecedented congestion issues that have plagued the port complex for the past two years, but they say cargo flow will not improve significantly in the first half of 2022.

California said that six state-owned properties will be made available for off-port container storage, five months after the state’s governor issued an executive order for more storage.

The new terminal for Busan comes as the port has been plagued by congestion for months, leading carriers to suffer schedule delays or skip the port on European, trans-Pacific, and intra-Asia services.

John Porcari’s pending departure comes as the port envoy role will shift to a more permanent structure under the new Federal Office of Multimodal Freight Policy, created as part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law in November.

Florida ports remain in the pole position for refrigerated cargo handling thanks to the addition of new north-south container services and growth in cold warehousing.

An order for new cranes from APM Terminals Mumbai will increase its handling capacity by 10 percent and allow it to work larger vessels.

Bob Curry Sr., a drayage industry pioneer who grew Cal Cartage from a Southern California less-than-truckload operator to a logistics provider for the container shipping industry throughout the US, died last week at 90.