California

Port Logistics Group opened two facilities in City of Industry, Calif.
 
20 May 2013
Port Logistics Group has added more than 1.1 million square feet of warehouse space to its City of Industry Retail Distribution Campus in California with the opening of two new facilities.
 
20 May 2013
The Port of Oakland’s containerized throughput rose 1.4 percent year-over-year in April, reaching 190,727 20-foot-equivalent units, including both laden and empty containers.
 
20 May 2013
The Sacramento-Yolo Port Commission in California has approved a new lease for its West Sacramento maritime facilities with SSA Pacific.
First Quarter 2011-2013 West Coast Market Shares. Source: Ports’ published data
 
20 May 2013
Canada’s West Coast container ports stayed level in the first quarter of 2013 with the robust growth they experienced last year. When compared with the first quarter of 2012, Canadian ports saw a higher throughput volume in the first quarter of 2013, but a slight dip in West Coast traffic market share.
OOCL container ship at Port of Long Beach
 
15 May 2013
The Port of Long Beach in April recorded strong double-digit growth in container volumes compared to April 2012.
Port of Los Angeles, Global Gateway South, APL
 
15 May 2013
The Port of Los Angeles reported a 9.5 percent decline in April cargo volume year-over-year.
Drewry Container Rate Benchmark, May 15, 2013. Source: Drewry
 
15 May 2013
Drewry’s Hong Kong-Los Angeles Container Rate Benchmark fell to $1,900 this week, the first drop below the $2,000 per-40-foot-container mark since early March 2012.
 
15 May 2013
Demand uncertainty, price volatility and shorter product cycles have focused corporate attention on transportation strategies like never before, according to a senior executive at C.H. Robinson Worldwide.
 
15 May 2013
The Port of Los Angeles will consider a proposal for automatic, annual general rate increases on Thursday. Oakland will act on the plan next week. Long Beach deferred action until 2014.
 
14 May 2013
The Port of Long Beach has released a recirculated draft environmental impact report examining a proposed grain export facility at Pier T on Terminal Island.
container on barge operation at Port of Stockton, Calif.
 
13 May 2013
Officials at the Port of Stockton, Calif., hope to see barge service start May 16, several years after winning federal funds to build a marine highway connecting it and the Port of Oakland.