Port News

Chennai shippers who have long been subjected to major cargo delays amid landside bottlenecks may soon see improvements.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will be able to accommodate ships with capacities of 14,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units at its Newark Bay terminals.

Shareholders of Greece’s Piraeus Port Authority approved a concession agreement with Cosco Shipping Group.

The port of Liverpool will offer container weighing services to help its customers comply with a new international regulation that comes into effect on July 1.

The Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, is riding a wave of bulk and project cargo with a common theme: the energy industry.

Russia’s containerized trade is recovering after a bruising from Western economic sanctions and low oil prices.

Gate automation at terminals in the Chennai Port will increase productivity.

France’s Bolloré Group signed a contract with the Southeast Asian state of Timor-Leste to build the country’s primary international seaport.

Ports, shippers and politicians from the Brazilian state of São Paulo are lobbying the government to appoint a technocrat to the country’s national port administration.

The Port of Oakland’s 83,969 laden 20-foot-equivalent export containers marked the highest monthly total since October 2014, according to the port’s website.

Details were still scant Thursday as to the exact problem that occurred. The port authority had yet to respond to a JOC.com request for specifics.

Europe’s top terminal operators and equipment manufacturers are accelerating moves to help shippers comply with a new international regulation.

U.S. exporters moving goods out of the Port of New York and New Jersey are getting a better understanding of how terminals at the largest U.S. East Coast gateway will handle the new SOLAS rule.

APM Terminals Pipavav, or Gujarat Pipavav Port, has completed an expansion program to boost its container-handling capacity.

A mega-fireboat is dedicated to protect mega-ships in Long Beach.

The largest container terminal in the Northwest Seaport Alliance has stated its position on SOLAS VGM generation.

The Port of Virginia has closed its Virginia International Gateway terminal to inbound truck traffic.

Container terminals in Brazil are hashing out pricing policies for enabling shipper compliance with an international container weight rule that enters force July 1.

Latin America’s demand for polyethylene, the key raw material for plastics production, is forecast to rise sharply.

CentrePort in the New Zealand capital of Wellington is pushing for a deepening project despite shipper recommendations.

Container volumes at India’s major public ports are growing steadily after a sluggish performance last fiscal year.

Containerized imports are expected to spike in the fall.

Motor carrier offers SOLAS-aimed weighing service, believed to be the first in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The Panama Canal Authority will determine whether its third set of locks where leaks were found are functional.

India’s port regulator has tentatively allowed Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust to charge tolls for truck cargo, but the matter is not yet settled.

Southeast Asia’s infrastructure is emerging as a major beneficiary of China’s Belt and Road initiative.

A new automobile shipping processing operation will open at a site adjacent to the Port of Baltimore.

DP World won a concession to develop a new port in Ecuador.

The Port of Oakland’s largest terminal operator is addressing looming congestion problems by preparing to charge a fee to support night gates.

The Suez Canal has extended and deepened discounts to container lines.

Drayage companies that service the Port of New York and New Jersey are once again squaring off with the Teamsters union.

An inter-terminal truck transfer system at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has had success.

For the first time, the JOC’s Port Productivity rankings analyze the global terminals making the greatest gains in berth efficiency.

The June 26 opening of the Panama Canal's expanded locks is an event U.S. Gulf ports have been preparing for.

Until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completes a study of the Arthur Kill turning basin, the size of some ships on trans-Pacific strings that call at the four big container terminals on the western side of the New York-New Jersey harbor could be limited.

Pressure is building on U.S. maritime regulators to quickly decide whether ports and container lines can hash out details on a strategy that could dramatically simplify exporters’ meeting the SOLAS container weight rule.

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a fiscal year 2016 and 2017 budget.

Philippine-based International Container Terminal Services Inc. has said when it will open a new terminal in the Congo, the first phase of a global expansion planned for this year.

The associations representing marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach and Oakland made an important announcement regarding their position on SOLAS.

The U.S. parcel giant expressed frustration, not only with the patchwork of guidance policies from individual nations, but from individual terminal operators as well.