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On a recent Saturday, longshoremen at the SSA Marine terminal in Oakland averaged an astounding 58 container lifts per crane per hour.

China trade was definitely hopping in the Year of the Hare.

Hong Kong’s stunning natural harbor has made it a natural center of trade for centuries.

Although Hong Kong and the mainland ports of southern China aren’t going anywhere at the top of the global rankings, the country’s slowing economic growth and shifting manufacturing strate

Jim McKenna, president of the West Coast waterfront employers group known as the Pacific Maritime Association, said the lawsuit involving the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Port o

Portland Executive Port Director Bill Wyatt said the port will not use public money to compensate terminal operator ICTSI for losses incurred this summer during work slowdowns by the International Lon

Cargo tonnage at the Port of Hueneme, California, increased 8.2 percent to 1.3 million metric tons in the fiscal year ending June 30.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union prepared to file suit Thursday against the Port of Portland and its executive director, charging the port violated federal and state law by agreeing to

Volumes were down in the first half of 2012 at the German seaport of Rostock.

The New York State Division of Human Rights filed a complaint accusing the International Longshoremen’s Association,

The International Longshoremen’s Association plans to picket at Charleston, S.C., and at Marine Corps headquarters in Washington next Monday to protest a stevedore’s use of non-ILA labor t

Hamburg’s container traffic declined in the second quarter as sharply lower Asian shipments outweighed growth on Baltic Sea and Russian routes.

Agility’s profit stalled in the second quarter as the Kuwaiti global logistics and infrastructure group reported it was beginning to reap the benefits of a two-year-long restructuring of its bus

CEVA Logistics is boosting its footprint in the Midwest to speed delivery by up to four days by better connecting its ocean services to its surface network.

China and North Korea have further strengthened their commitment to the development of new economic zones on the North Korea side of their shared border as major OEMs will be enticed with the prospect

The volume of containers handled by terminals in the Port of Virginia in July increased 7.4 percent from June and by 8 percent over the same month last year.

Brazilian terminal operator and maritime logistics firm Wilson Sons Limited

HHLA’s profit and container traffic increased in the first half of 2012, but Hamburg’s biggest stevedore forecast flat full-year results amid slowing growth across the North Europe port ra

APM Terminals profit dipped to $160 million in the second quarter from $162 million a year ago as double-digit growth in container traffic in West Africa and Asia was offset by declines across its Eur

Damco’s earnings before interest and taxes jumped 42 percent to $51 million as air freight revenue more than doubled and net revenue increased 12 percent to $1.543 billion.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union Coast Committeeman Leal Sundet was not speaking in hyperbole Monday when he said the jurisdictional dispute in Portland between the ILWU and the Internation

The South Carolina Ports Authority has dropped its membership in the American Association of Port Authorities, an SCPA official

Two new investors filed proposals Monday in a bid to take over terminals operated by the

Dockworkers in Portland suffered a jurisdictional loss late Monday when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that jobs involving the working of refrigerated containers at the port belong to the ri

Port congestion resulting from reduced working hours and higher demand during Ramadan is causing shipping delays in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, prompting new liner surcharges.

Global port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc.

The action last week by Portland’s harbor commissioners to ensure the port shares in the costs that terminal operator ICTSI incurred because of longshore labor actions in June was a business dec

Port Canaveral will get $24.4 million in funding from the State of Florida to complete its harbor widening and deepening project to accommodate larger cruise and cargo ships.

Great expectations are colliding with hard reality at the Port of Gulfport, Miss., where state officials are considering modifications to a $570 million rebuilding and expansion project.

Steel shipments through Gulf of Mexico ports have long been a two-way race between Houston and New Orleans. Now a third port has elbowed into the picture.

Commissioners at the Port of Portland, Ore., overrode objections from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in voting 6-1 to defray the port’s container terminal operator’s losse

The U.S. Department of Commerce has accepted the application by the Port of Miami for a Foreign Trade Zone license, enhancing Miami-Dade County’s status as a Center for International Trade and Commerce.

India is planning to relax its cabotage law to allow foreign-owned and operated ships to carry cargo between the country’s ports.

Container throughput at major ports in India remained almost flat year-over-year from April through July, the first four months of fiscal 2012-13, according to the latest provisional figures released

Container traffic at the Port of Prince Rupert hit a monthly high in July, as traffic rose 5.5 percent year-over-year to 48,977 20-foot equivalent units.

Diesel emissions at the Port of Long Beach dropped for the fifth consecutive year since the port’s Clean Air Action Plan was adopted in 2006.

The government of Panama on Tuesday approved the two-stage toll increases proposed by the Panama Canal Authority.

Contract negotiations between the Office Clerical Unit of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 and waterfront employers have entered their second week, which is a record of sorts in th

APM Terminals said construction of a container terminal in Costa Rica will start on schedule in 2013 after a court rejected a bid by unions to block the $1 billion project.