Port News

Forward Air has expanded its US Midwest-focused drayage footprint to the Southeast.

The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund will announce the winner at the next meeting of its directors.

Unions are protesting a reform of major port trusts through new legislation dubbed the Major Ports Authority Bill 2016.

Repurposing port properties for anciliary services helps Oakland to curb congestion.

Eurogate raised fears that the German terminals’ competitive position is being threatened by delays to infrastructure projects.

The goal, critical to government efforts to cut logistics costs and lift port productivity, had seemed unattainable.

DP World took over the operation and management of Sokhna from a group of private investors in 2008.

“Yes, there is more money needed for it, but if we’re truly looking for projects that will have a meaningful payback to the nation, this is the project.”

APM Terminals Pipavav has struggled of late as some mainline carriers have dropped calls.

Turning Mariel into a major transshipment or transit port would require changes in US restrictions.

Footwear importers encounter logistics challenges as they source outside of China.

The liner giant is using “river sea” category vessels to transport exports out of the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (PICT).

A strike would impact supply chains as the Narendra Modi government vigorously works to stimulate economic growth.

SSA Terminals in Tacoma will provide stevedoring and terminal services for Matson when APM Terminals' lease expires.

Converting cargo from road to rail, aimed at easing chronic congestion at Chennai Port, continues to be a struggle.

Traffic at major ports, which account for 70 percent of India’s container trade, increased 3 percent year-over-year.

The parking lot should be up and running by some time in 2019.

Proposed Canadian legislation would allow EU-based carriers to reposition empty containers between domestic ports.

The joint project is being positioned as an extension of Port Klang.

Electronic logging of truck driver hours will run smack into congestion and delays at ports and rail yards, forcing changes to drayage operations and threatening higher costs.

"Customers change over $50 a container.”

Container throughput at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) hit an all-time high in fiscal year 2016 to 2017.

“Our goal is to take cargo away from other gateways like LA-Long Beach and New York.”

The depot opens another intermodal link for the country’s dominantly industrialized northwestern hinterlands.

Container traffic at the port of Kobe was the highest since 1995, when a devastating earthquake hit the port city.

CM Port Chairman Li Xiaopeng said container throughput in 2017 will likely break the 100-million-TEU barrier.

Technology aims to reduce wait times at India's busiest container gateway.

Singamas has reported a full orderbook for the first quarter as carriers and container lessors try to avoid any shortages in boxes.

Fostering cooperation among supply-chain sectors is the main challenge LA-LB faces in handling the new alliances.

World's largest retailer plans to build a $135 million import distribution center.

The company sees overseas expansion increasingly important in the wake of the launch of the new alliances.

Greenock Ocean Terminal is deepest Scottish container terminal renowned around the world for its exports of Scotch whisky.

CMA CGM said the terminal has achieved an average gross berth productivity of more than 160 moves per hour.

New equipment at Tecon Rio Grande worth $40 million should help the south Brazilian port handle growing volume.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone's first global conference was attended by representatives from cargo interests, freight forwarders, and manufacturers.

A decline in production numbers and China regulations on paint look set to limit the availability of containers, which could spell trouble when demand picks up in peak periods.

The fourth-quarter performance might be a blip, but there are plenty of indicators it isn't.

Current back-up of chassis in LA-LB port is sign of deeper problems.

“We should expect a general development wherein networks will gradually migrate toward designs with fewer but larger hubs.”

The successful bidder will be obliged to invest 180 million euros in the port over seven years.