North American ports

French line CMA CGM has offloaded most of its stake in its LA terminal for almost $1 billion.

Operations are finally beginning to return to normal at Pier 400 in the Port of Los Angeles.

Spike in trans-Pacific spot rates may be due to GRI.

The port is in the midst of a $1 billion expansion and renovation program.

A coalition of groups is calling on the Port of New York and New Jersey to revive a plan to ban all trucks with engines from 2007 or older from the port, expressing health concerns.

The passage under the newly raised Bayonne Bridge in the Port of New York and New Jersey of half a dozen ships that could not have made it before the raising of the bridge marks the opening of a new era for the port.

The $42 million North Gate project is part of a larger investment the Virginia Port Authority has undertaken to improve productivity for shippers.

Renovation of the port’s low-water ro-ro dock follows the completion in 2016 of a two-year, $13 million rebuilding of the main dock at the Tulsa-Catoosa port.

Private investment in that area totals $50 billion — "with a B."

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach last week announced the schedule for completing what will be the final draft of an update to their landmark Clean Air Action Plan.

Executive Director Gene Seroka said the container was discharged from an Evergreen Line vessel.

Starting Sunday, officials at the Port of New York and New Jersey can discuss a contentious per-container charge with major container lines, after a tied FMC vote.

Freight rates on the trans-Pacific have fallen well off levels reached in the fourth quarter of 2016 as carriers in the highly competitive trade route chase after market share.

Teamsters expand picketing to additional motor carriers in LA-LB.

Teamsters-supported truck pickets have no discernible impact on cargo handling in LA-LB

The Port of Los Angeles is the US West Coast gateway for Chilean fruit.

SSA Marine the past two weeks has been opening its Terminal 18 in Seattle an hour early each day and is keeping its gates open through lunch and coffee breaks.

At a time when the Southern California Ports' hold on discretionary cargo is tenuous, the state's all-out commitment to mitigating climate change is taking priority over port competitiveness.

"There is other business pending that must be addressed before the commission can turn its attention to this matter,” an FMC spokesman told JOC.com

While ships of slightly larger than 10,000 TEU have stopped at GCT Bayonne, the Zim Antwerp will be the the first ship to pass under the elevated bridge.

The long-anticipated sea change in trans-Pacific shipping networks is well underway a year after the Panama Canal opened its expanded lock system.

The Southern California mayors emphasized that their ports will remain competitive.

Average container ship sizes through the Panama Canal have increased by roughly 47.5 percent to 6,000 TEU since the June 26 opening of the Panama Canal’s larger lock.

Mario Cordero last month returned to his hometown of Long Beach with a singular mission.

US retailers are expecting US import volumes to hit record levels in the coming months.

In the United States, there was basically one chassis model from the beginning of containerization in the 1950s until 2009.

The future of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad has been a top concern of port officials and businesses for nearly two years.

The Seattle-Tacoma alliance will purchase an additional four cranes to enable its ports to better handle mega-ships.

The new low-profile gantry cranes cost a total of $41.4 million and come with an option for the port to purchase an additional three cranes anytime within five years.

Portland has been without weekly container services since 2015.

“We can’t control the economy worldwide, but we can grow our market share in a down world economy.”

Truck turn times at Seattle’s largest container terminal ranged from one hour to as much as one day.

The opening of the elevated Bayonne Bridge in June is likely to bring change.

Ports with newly green-lighted projects praised the Corps action.

The launch of the new BBC Euro-Gulf Express Line follows BBC’s addition this month of westbound capacity on its Mediterranean-America service.

Growth in US containerized exports continues, but slows, despite uncertainties over the direction of US trade policy, a strong dollar, and growing competition.

Though two trans-Pacific services were added to the US Gulf last year, questions persist about whether there will be enough ship capacity to handle the resins exports demand.

Although the harbor drayage community has known about the clean-truck mandate since 2008, only 46 percent of the trucks that pick up and deliver containers in Seattle and Tacoma are compliant.

Roughly $4.6 billion is needed at East and Gulf coast ports to remedy pinch points in harbor infrastructure.

Legislation would let resin exporters load additional cargo into containers.