Port News

The Federal Maritime Commission voted 3-2 to adopt a report said to be critical of Canadian actions to encourage diversion of U.S.-bound cargo to Canadian ports.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Barcelona declined by 20 percent in the first six months of the year from the same period last year, primarily because of a 49 percent drop in transship

Rail Logistics-Cold Train is expanding its refrigerated intermodal service, bringing its container fleet up to 300 53-foot units and adding East Coast destinations.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Marseilles Fos grew 14 percent in the first half year year-over-year, while the twin ports&rsquo; overall tonnage fell because of shrinking oil volume.<

Abu Dhabi&rsquo;s Khalifa Port has received its first container vessel call.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah during fiscal 2011 ended June 30 grew by a relatively meager 1.9 percent year-over-year due to what the Georgia Ports Authority called the &ldq

Pantos Logistics has won a contract to provide international rail transportation services for a General Motors joint venture in Asia.

Hong Kong and southern China face port and airport disruption today and Tuesday as typhoon Vicente hits land.

West Coast ports have access to millions of square feet of warehouse and distribution space, but those hubs can be as far as 50 miles from the ports.

In this podcast, JOC Editor Joseph Bonney reports live from Delray Beach, Fla., where labor contract negotiations are taking place between the International Longshoremen's Associatio

Port of Oakland executives will begin making a 5 percent contribution to their retirement programs under the newly adopted fiscal year 2012-13 budget.

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The International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and United States Maritime Alliance ended three days of negotiations with optimism about a strike-free contract for East and Gulf Coast dockworkers.<

Intermodal growth and higher truckload rates helped Swift Transportation boost second quarter net profit 72 percent from a year ago to $33.7 million.

The International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and United States Maritime Alliance moved closer to a contract agreement with an agreement in principle on two top issues &mdash; new technology and

Five East Coast ports got a leg up from the White House Wednesday when the Obama administration fast-tracked the seven big infrastructure projects they are planning in order to accommodate the bigger

The International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association plans to affiliate with the worldwide International Dockworkers Council in what ILA President Harold Daggett said is a move to expand cooperation wit

The International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and United States Maritime Alliance

International Longshoremen's Association and the United States Maritime Alliance are involved in a new round of intense labor contract negotiations in Florida.

Australian stevedore Asciano will invest US$359 million to redevelop and expand its container terminal at Port Botany in Sydney.

Global port operator International Container Terminal Services has appointed Christian R. Gonzalez as acting head of Asian operations.

The Bayonne Bridge will have enough clearance by the fall of 2015 to handle larger post-Panamax ships that will start calling East Coast ports through the expanded Panama Canal, the Port Authority of

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Virginia rose by a strong 11.2 percent in June from the same month last year for the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year container growth at the p

The National Retail Federation urged the International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and its management counterpart to pledge to continue contract negotiations and avoid a work stoppage that &ldquo

Brazilian customs officers stepped up their slowdowns this week, delaying commerce at Santos and other ports, as labor negotiations continued.

June was the busiest month of the year so far at the Port of Long Beach, with the 555,359 20-foot containers handled at the port easily beating the second highest total of 497,892 TEUs handled in May.

Intermodal trucking giant J.B. Hunt Transport Services reported an $80.5 million second quarter net profit as revenue increased 9 percent to $1.26 billion.

Containerized imports at the Port of Los Angeles increased 6 percent in June compared to June 2011, while exports were up 6.9 percent.

Kuehne + Nagel&rsquo;s net profit fell in the

The Port of Charleston got more good news last week when Hamburg Sud announced it will switch calls to Charleston from Savannah in mid-September by its service between Australia, New Zealand and the U

By the time the Panama Canal Authority opens its new set of locks in 2015, the 50-mile stretch of canal may have at least two new terminals, one at each entrance, with plans for a third on the Pacific

The Army Corps of Engineers expects the deepening of Charleston's harbor to be completed sooner and cost less than it originally projected.

The Port of Rotterdam today closed the final gap in a near seven-mile long seawall, reclaiming almost 5,000 acres of land from the North Sea that will house Europe&rsquo;s largest new ocean container

The Port of New York and New Jersey is facing a shortage of chassis available for use in draying containers to and from the terminals.

The Virginia Department of Transportation said Wednesday it is extending until Aug.

German ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd will impose a congestion surcharge on all cargo moving to and from the Port of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union members this week are picketing a barge facility in southern Oregon to protest a lumber company&rsquo;s use of non-ILWU labor to load and unload wood produc

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Vietnam&rsquo;s ambitious Cai Mep container port is losing its appeal to ocean carriers, according to Alphaliner, as lower-than-expected cargo volumes have cut the number of weekly direct line-haul se

The fate of the long-planned Savannah Harbor Expansion Project remains undecided after a federal judge ruled against the dismissal of an environmentalists&rsquo; lawsuit aimed at blocking a pollution