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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.