Port News

In trucking, warehousing and, in fact, in a number of industries, worker misclassification is possibly the hottest topic today in labor relations.

Virginia's port will get more capacity and an operational overhaul.

The shipping industry is anxiously awaiting efforts by the Hong Kong government to help the territory's port cope with a number of issues it is facing.

Shippers using the container terminals overseen by the Itajai Port Authority are livid with the government of Brazil.

Container traffic at Japanese ports sank for the first time in six years.

Terminals in India's busiest port are facing heat over allegations of unnecessary container weighing to meet SOLAS.

Trucks slowed to a crawl, and stopped entirely, creating an extensive traffic snarl at the Port of New York and New Jersey at lunchtime Monday.

Truckers that service the Port of New York and New Jersey are preparing for possible congestion and delays Monday.

Hong Kong continues its downward trajectory that has seen volume decline every month since July 2014.

Representatives of the railroad industry and labor unions — many of whom actively opposed the group’s formation in the first place, but nevertheless landed seats at the table — took little time before questioning and criticizing the very existence of the new Port Performance Freight Statistics Working Group.

Ocean Alliance members CMA CGM, COSCO Container Lines, Orient Overseas Container Line and Evergreen Line see major opportunity in deploying more services to the East and West coasts.

The port of Boston moved a step closer being able to handle some of the the larger ships able to traverse the expanded Panama Canal.

APM Terminals is caught up in a Guatemalan bribery scandal.

Container maker struggling amid weak demand, currency fluctuations and market slump.

Truck lines in Los Angeles-Long Beach got slightly longer in June.

The number of mega-ships calling at the port jumped by 66 percent.

Traffic at India's Port of Cochin surged in the first half.

Santos dockworkers and port operators are continuing talks on staffing, with further strike action on the agenda.

Port of Los Angeles imports in June decline as trade awaits beginning of peak season.

The Panama Canal has ousted the Suez Canal as the leading route for all-water container services between the Far East and the U.S. East Coast.

Russia’s competition regulator has imposed a temporary ban on the increase of stevedoring rates.

Structural challenges could make life harder for high-flying terminal operator Westports Holdings, which is active in Port Klang, Malaysia.

The first steps were taken Tuesday toward development of a new zero-emission terminal at the Port of Los Angeles.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is seeking shipper and trade support as it gets ready for a final decision on its truck toll.

Laden containerized imports in Long Beach increased in June as the second-largest U.S. port transitions to the summer-fall peak-shipping season.

U.S. containerized imports should slightly rise over the second half of 2016.

A group of U.S. customs brokers and freight forwarders is calling on the federal government to help pool marine terminal data.

A rise in imports has driven up the volume of loaded 20-foot-equivalent units moving through Mexican ports this year despite a slow-moving economy.

The city of New Orleans is again exploring the sale of the port’s switching railroad.

The recent opening of the expanded Panama Canal is shaking up the deployment pattern of container ships.

Mario Cordero reacted quickly to an announcement of a traffic mitigation fee increase at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.

The purchase would boost the Australian presence of the parent company of China’s leading state-owned terminal operator, China Merchants Holdings (International).

Hyundai Merchant Marine plans to deploy six ships with capacities of 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units on an existing Asia-U.S. East Coast service via the enlarged Panama Canal.

India is scouting for U.S. investment and technology for its infrastructure development program.

The successful arrival and departure Monday night of the Hammonia Venetia at the Port of Tuxpan, the first ever ship to dock there, ushered in what could be a fierce fight among Mexican ports on the Gulf Coast.

A U.S. trade group has launched its own online portal to boost efficiency in the drayage sector.

There's more good news for the Narendra Modi-led government that has made port development a high priority.

A testament to the port’s efforts to expand its capabilities is the welcoming of the largest container ship to call the Port of Wilmington this past Tuesday.

Senior politicians in Kerala state, where a greenfield deep-sea transshipment port similar to Enayam is already under development, have expressed opposition to the recently approved Enayam project.

No significant impact experienced by ports due to "hour of silence" action by dockers.