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An intermodal transfer facility that will serve an expanded Global Terminal at Bayonne, N.J., will receive an $11.4 million federal construction grant under the TIGER program.

On the other side of Southeast Asia’s planning-for-the-future divide from Indonesia is Vietnam, which looks certain to have excess container handling capacity for some time to come.

A lawsuit brought on by eight shippers accusing the top four U.S. railroads of colluding to set fuel surcharges gained class action status on Thursday.

The pricing complaints of captive agriculture shippers, or railroad customers dependent on a single carrier, could gain a wider audience through a recently approved amendment to the Farm bill.

A federal judge will hear arguments Friday on a National Labor Relations Board request for a court order prohibiting the International Longshore and Warehouse Union from slowing operations at the Port

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union elevated its battle with the electrical workers’ union and terminal operator ICTSI Oregon a notch by filing a lawsuit in U.S.

MOL’s TraPac Container Terminal at the Port of Jacksonville is set to handle shipments of most of the merchandise imported by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.

The contracting group that is building the new set of locks at the Panama Canal completed the first monolith of the new locks on the Pacific end of the canal.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority approved $146.9 million in capital spending during its fiscal year beginning July 1 and forecast Charleston’s container volume will rise 8 percent during

The National Labor Relations Board’s regional director filed an unfair-labor-practices charge against the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, saying the ILWU slowed work at the Port of

The National Labor Relations Board’s regional office said the International Longshore and Warehouse Union engaged in unfair labor practices by slowing work at the Port of Portland, Ore., in a ju

Strong growth in trade between the U.S. Gulf region and the Caribbean, Central and South America is more than making up for weakening volumes to and from recession-battered Europe.

Don’t look for DP World to build or buy new container terminals in the United States anytime soon. That’s not sour grapes over the 2006 rebuff by xenophobic U.S.

A dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and an electricians’ union over a handful of refrigerated container jobs has slowed container operations at the Port of Portland

The Panama Canal Authority is moving to cut carbon emissions in the environmentally sensitive watershed zone around the canal by encouraging sustainable use of its forests.

APM Terminals has taken a 25 percent stake in a project to expand capacity at Ningbo, China’s third-largest container port that involves a $500 million investment by Denmark’s A.P.

Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby will invest RM1.4 billion ($144 million) in its Chinese port operations over the next three years.

If the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach experience congestion during the peak-shipping season this fall, it won’t be due to insufficient infrastructure or marine terminal capacity, Southern C

Container volumes at the Port of Long Beach declined 7.23 percent in May compared to May 2011, with imports dropping 9.15 percent and exports down 0.83 percent.

Container volumes at the Port of Los Angeles inched up in May along seasonal trends. Imports increased 2.7 percent compared to May 2011, and exports were up less than 1 percent.

APM Terminals has named Ben Vree executive chairman of its European operations, which account for 36 percent of the A.P.

APM Terminals, the global ports operator, is set to unveil an investment of more than $500 million in a new container terminal in China,

APM Terminals, on a crane-buying spree, Tuesday ordered 31 ship-to-shore spre

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Descartes Systems Group said it will acquire substantially all of the assets of Integrated Export Systems and IES Asia for about $35 million in cash.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Virginia in May jumped by 12.6 percent to 178,584 20-foot-equivalent units from the same month last year.

The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance are scheduled to resume negotiations when the ILA’s wage scale committee meets on June 27-29 in Delray Beac

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach on Aug.

APM Terminals ordered eight Kalmar post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes and two Kalmar barge quay cranes for expansion of its Maasvlakte II terminal in the Port of Rotterdam.

APM Terminals has ordered 26 automated rail-mounted gantry cranes and two rail cranes from Austrian manufacturer Kuenz for APMT’s Rotterdam Maasvlakte II terminal.

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India fell 1.71 percent year-over-year in the first two months of fiscal 2012-13, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement on Monday.

The words “technology” and “automation” are troubling to longshoremen because they signal a loss of job opportunities.

Negotiations on a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract for East and Gulf Coast dockworkers have taken a negative turn, confronting shippers with tough choices in the weeks ahead

Delegates to the 35th convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union voted unanimously to affiliate with the Panama Canal Pilots Union.

A suspended pier superintendent at Maher Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey pleaded guilty to a federal charge of illegal bookmaking using Internet sites and 1-800 telephone numbers.

CEVA Logistics has further committed to operating truck services in China, completing the buyout of CEVA Ground in China, a former joint venture that has now become a wholly owned subsidiary.

A stevedoring company that plans to use workers from the Operating Engineers union to load military ammunition at Charleston said it is not competing for work currently done by International Longshore

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission certified the final environmental impact report and approved the proposed expansion of the APL terminal operated by Eagle Marine Services.

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission adopted a 2012-13 fiscal year budget that includes projected capi