North American ports

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has a reputation of militancy, but a Southern California union official said recent history shows the ILWU is a collaborative partner of the West Coast

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

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

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

Virginia is dangling its 50-foot-deep harbor as a fisherman dangles a lure.

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.

Gulf Coast ports have long been underserved in the main east-west trades, but are counting on their access to the Midwest and the South’s growing population to attract new carrier services.

Container volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach increased modestly in February compared to last year, with the Chinese New Year celebration taking a toll on imports from Asia.

UPDATED MARCH 11 AT 4:55 P.M. EST

U.S. West Coast ports started 2011 off with a bang, with total container volume in January up 13 percent over last January.

Combined containerized imports through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 13 percent in January over the same month a year ago, extending the strong recovery pace at the nation’s large

They are both good ol’ boys from the Southeast who returned to native ground after years afield to take on new jobs a little more than a year ago running the two biggest ports in the South Atlan

There’s been no shortage of argument and legal battling over the clean-trucks programs at Southern California’s ports, but there’s no dispute that the program has worked remarkably w

The Port of Seattle had a banner year in 2010, with containerized imports increasing 46.6 percent, containerized exports up 19.3 percent and total international containers up 34.9 percent.

The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority is slashing its request for a federal rail program loan to $83.7 million from an earlier $553 million, in a bid to lock in the federal credit to help rest

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and APL launched a three-year trial of a seawater scrubber technology that promises significant reductions in harmful emissions from the auxiliary engines of co

The heavy rains in Southern California this past week caused mudslides and road closures throughout the region, but the harbor drayage community in Los Angeles-Long Beach kept on trucking.

Container traffic at Savannah and auto shipments at Brunswick, Ga., posted double-digit increases in November from last year’s volumes, the Georgia Port Authority said.

November container volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach indicate exports are building strongly while imports, though down compared to recent months, are still running at double-digits ahe

Although the banning of old, polluting trucks from the nation’s two largest ports appears to be a difficult requirement to circumvent, creative truckers in Southern Californi

Cargo volume moving through Los Angeles-Long Beach is slowing down in line with seasonal trends, but truck lines at marine terminals are getting longer.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach approved an update to their ground-breaking 2006 clean air action that calls for a significant reduction in pollution from vessels and line-haul locomotives.

Some drayage companies in Southern California are violating the spirit, if not the letter of the Los Angeles and Long Beach clean-truck requirements, and the ports intend to end these practices soon.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach recorded combined import growth of 15.4 percent in October, indicating some staying power as growth slowly slips back from an August peak in the shipping season

Strong container volumes through West Coast ports this year is good news for longshoremen who suffered through an unprecedented period of declining work opportunities in 2009.

In the battle to win discretionary cargo destined for the Midwest, the competition among East and West Coast ports can be cutthroat.

The Northern California ports of Oakland, Stockton and West Sacramento broke ground on the state's Green Trade Corridor, a project that will reduce pollution and help to relieve traffic congestion by

Trucking interests in Southern California appear to have scored a temporary victory Monday when U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

Vessel operators and railroads will shoulder a larger share of the burden as the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach seek to achieve ambitious pollution-reduction goals over the next 13 years.

The Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor commissions postponed for about 30 days a vote on adopting an update to the ports' watershed Clean Air Action Plan.

Steel trade at Gulf ports took a pounding the past two years, mirroring the steep slide in the domestic steel industry and U.S.

The two-day work stoppage at all six container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey spared the Port of Baltimore despite calls by the Philadelphia chapter of the International Longshoreman

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released an updated Clean Air Action Plan that sets even stricter goals for reducing toxic air contaminants than were contained in the original CAAP of 2006.

Containerized imports in the Pacific Northwest were up sharply in August versus the same month last year, and only moderately lower when compared to the previous month this year.

Venture capitalists have money available for technology that will enable the maritime industry to grow in an environmentally-responsible manner, but like any investors they base their decisions on the

Combined imports into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 23.9 percent in August over the same month a year ago, and the ports defied analyst forecasts of a slowdown by reporting their strong

The congestion at marine terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach that has plagued harbor truckers for much of the year is beginning to dissipate, thanks to a working group formed by truckers, the ports an

Harbor truckers on the West Coast like to call at Matson Navigation terminals. The gates and container yards are always fully staffed, and gate operations are efficient.

Container volumes at California’s ports increased in July over the same month last year, with imports leading the way.

A meeting between office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach was canceled last week.