Port News

The Panama Maritime Authority has reached an agreement with a Chinese consortium on Panama's first post-Panamax capable container terminal.

Service upgrades and additions were not enough to propel Pipavav Port to growth in the last fiscal year.

The Port of Charleston has changed its mind on its previously announced SOLAS policy.

It is unclear if the container trade has a future in Portland.

Container lines and U.S. ports have asked the U.S. maritime regulator for permission to get together to craft a common strategy for dealing with SOLAS.

The 2014 to 2015 congestion crisis at U.S. West Coast ports exacerbated the shift of Asian imports to East and Gulf Coast ports.

Congressional pressure is intensifying on stakeholders in the containerized supply chain to find an agreeable response to the SOLAS rule.

Throughput at Cosco Pacific grew overall despite uneven performances throughout its portfolio of container terminals.

Containerized imports and exports moving through the Northwest Seaport Alliance ports of Seattle and Tacoma increased in April.

Cuba’s Mariel container terminal has already planned its transformation into a major transshipment hub after the U.S. trade embargo ends, according to TC Mariel General Director Charles Baker.

Although port authorities and trucking organizations in Oakland and Los Angeles-Long Beach have been leading the way in implementing global-positioning satellite and Bluetooth technologies to increase cargo velocity, ports and truckers on the East and Gulf coasts are anxious to follow. Technology products are expected to surface at other ports in short order.

India’s role in the development of the free trade port of Chabahar in southeastern Iran will be high on the agenda when Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins a two-day visit to the country next week.

Throughput at Cai Mep International Terminal, the APM Terminals facility in Vietnam’s Ba Ria‐Vung Tau province, southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, skyrocketed in the first quarter.

The looming SOLAS summer deadline has left many shippers wondering where and how they will be able to obtain certified VGMs.

Latin America and Caribbean terminal operators will face different national rules regarding the SOLAS container weight verification rule, adding another layer of difficulty to an already tricky process.

Los Angeles-Long Beach exceptionalism has created unique challenges for the largest U.S. port complex.

The largest trade group representing drayage companies in the Port of New York and New Jersey has created its own web-based forum to connect truckers looking to make “street turns.”

The Brazilian port sector’s worst nightmare has become a reality with the government’s announcement that the Special Ports Ministry, or SEP, would be subsumed by the Transport Ministry as part of a cost-saving initiative.

France’s ports, railways and airports face shutdown.

If the container terminals in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach do not automate, they will soon be unable to handle their growing volumes.

India is accelerating its drive for private investment in its ports and maritime sectors.

With less than two months before the SOLAS container-weighing rule takes effect, questions of the strength and scale of the enforcement’s bite in the U.S. are mounting.

APM Terminals has added additional ports to the 29 where it said it would be offering weighing services to enable SOLAS compliance.

Ports on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts have been deepening their harbors and channels and expanding infrastructure, preparing for the opening of the Panama Canal’s big new locks.

Decisions by carrier alliances in Southern California shape throughput patterns.

U.S. state governments have allocated substantial amounts to ports within their borders in recent years as a spur to economic development.

Because North Carolina said it’s been weighing containers to meet Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules, the decision to provide container weights to help shippers meet the International Maritime Organization’s new SOLAS rule does not represent a change in operating procedures.

The urgently needed dredging of the entrance channel to the port of Santos in Brazil is slowly edging toward reality after a multitude of delays.

Two years after a celebrated return to New Orleans after a 40-year absence, fruit importer Chiquita may be leaving again — or maybe not, port officials say.

The Obama administration is looking to the private sector to meet a long-delayed 100 percent scanning mandate.

International Container Terminal Services reported a drop in year-over-year net income during the first quarter.

Hutchison Port Holdings laid out how it will handle the SOLAS container weight rule when it takes effect July 1.

HHLA’s terminals handled fewer containers in the first quarter than a year ago, but Hamburg’s biggest stevedore believes the market has bottomed out.

JOC.com examined changes in market share by analyzing data from PIERS, a sister product of JOC.com within IHS.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will soon complete a multiyear $2.1 billion project to deepen its channel to 50 feet but contemplates whether further work is needed.

Containerized imports at the Port of Los Angeles increased as trade flows in the trans-Pacific appear to be returning to normal seasonal patterns.

One of the big three providers of U.S. marine chassis is being sold to a new owner.

China’s Cosco Pacific is buying a stake in Rotterdam’s Euromax container terminal from Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings.

Terminal operators fear that weighing export containers with the precision that might be required under SOLAS could intensify gate congestion in the largest U.S. port complex of Los Angeles-Long Beach.

Far-reaching regulation will affect many smaller U.S. transport operators, shippers as well as large companies.