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Texas' Port of Corpus Christi approved the $66 million sale of 185.5 acres at a decommissioned naval base to a logistics company that plans to build an offshore drilling service facility.

APM Terminals’ third-quarter profit jumped 24 percent year-over-year to $174 million, as the terminal operator grew container traffic by a market-beating 11 percent to 8.6 million 20-foot equiva

Severe flooding in Thailand is hurting Toyota, which is still reeling from the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March.

CEVA Logistics boosted third quarter profit by 5.8 percent to $125.6 million

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India grew about 4 percent year-over-year from April through October, the Indian Ports Association said Tuesday.

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners is expected to confirm the nomination of J. Christopher Lytle as executive director at the next commission meeting on Nov. 14.

An International Longshoremen’s Association local has accused Yang Ming (America) of engaging in an unfair labor practice by refusing to negotiate a contract for the Taiwanese carrier’s tw

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-truck fee, a much maligned but effective tool for reducing pollution, will no longer be assessed to shippers beginning Jan. 1, 2012.

Felixstowe’s container rail traffic hit a record 11,019 containers in a single week, as the UK’s largest box port reaps the benefits of a three-year investment in tracks, cranes and termin

The Port of Kobe in western Japan saw container traffic rise 5.4 percent year-over-year in the first half of 2011, as imports rose 6.1 percent at the country’s fourth-largest container port.

To port planner John Vickerman, the questions over the size of new vessels coming to U.S. marine terminals disregard the most important figure.

CMA CGM transferred 50 percent of its shares in the Malta Freeport transhipment hub to the Yildirim Group of Turkey, as French ocean carrier restructures in the wake of its financial crisis.

Rotterdam container traffic in the first three quarters of 2011 grew 7.7 percent y

Container throughput in September at the Port of Savannah jumped 13.5 percent sequentially from August and by 11.1 percent year-over-year.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union was fined $65,000 for blocking access to a controversial grain terminal in Longview, Wash., bringing the total fines levied against the union to more th

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Hong Kong’s Hutchison Port Holdings won a 10-year concession to develop and operate a container terminal at Unite

Transport Corporation of India’s profit fell 5 percent year-over-year to $2.75 million in the fiscal second

Waterfront employers are working with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to identify and isolate at-risk refrigerated containers arriving at West Coast ports from Vietnam.

Port of Oakland executives are urging residents to balance exercising their right to freedom of speech with safeguarding the rights of port workers during a general strike on Wednesday to support the

Prospects for an organized shutdown of the Port of Oakland appeared remote Wednesday after International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals in Northern California didn’t direct longshoremen to

U.S.-flag merchant ships spend on average 2.7 times more to operate their vessels than their foreign competitors, largely because labor and benefits cost American operators nearly twice as much, accor

Brooklyn may have a bridge, but unlike four major terminals on the west side of New York harbor, ships don’t have to pass under it to get there.

A reputed New Jersey mobster and an International Longshoremen’s Association checker pleaded guilty to state charges involving waterfront loan sharking at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The Port of Los Angeles will enforce all concession requirements in its clean-truck program upheld in a recent ruling by the U.S.

Container traffic at Marseilles, France’s largest port, fell 6 percent year-over-year in the first nine months of 2011, largely because of nationwide

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bought out the 10-year lease that American Stevedoring International held on the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn.

Dandong Port in Northern China will spend nearly $7.1 billion over the next five years to increase throughput some 67 percent at facilities with strong connections in North Asia.

The executive committee of the American Trucking Associations voted unanimously to seek a U.S.

Germany’s DB Schenker is launching Britain’s first regular rail cargo service using a European-sized, high-speed track from London to the Channel tunnel, which is expected to boost rail&rs

Guangzhou Port Group reported a 24.6 percent year-over-year increase Wednesday in container volume in September, but the Southern China operator said it expects business to contract this month as the

With wages in South China escalating rapidly and product quality at times comprised, footwear importers increasingly are looking to western China, Vietnam, India and even the U.S.

DP World’s 10 percent year-over-year boost in container traffic in the third quarter was driven by strong growth at the Dubai-based company’s terminals in the United Arab Emirates, Africa

Containerized imports into the Port of Seattle plunged 22.6 percent in September over the same month a year ago as a tumultuous month at Pacific Northwest ports brought a meek showing in the midst of

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed Patrick J. Foye as its new executive director at its monthly board meeting Thursday.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reported its busiest month for container imports so far in 2011 in August, but volume at the U.S.

Terminal container operators negotiating with a port authority for new facilities should expect talks to be lengthy, possibly contentious, and focused on financial feasibility, considering terminals c

California’s container ports are working overtime to convince cargo interests that Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland should be their first choice in the trade with Asia, but the ports’ b