Port News

The Federal Maritime Commission, jumping into a dispute over the shift of imported containers from the United States to Canada, voted Wednesday to launch an inquiry over whether the U.S.

Container traffic through major ports in India increased 4.3 percent year-over-year in the first half of fiscal 2012 ending Sept. 30, the Indian Ports Association said Wednesday.

Containerized imports moving through West Coast ports in August declined 7 percent compared to the same month in 2010 while exports surged 12 percent compared to August 2010, according to the Pacific

The Port of Krishnapatnam’s start of container operatios in late September positions the Indian port as an alternative to the congested container gateway in

DP World said its London Gateway deep-sea container port will start operations in the fourth quarter of 2013 with an initial annual capacity of 1.6 million 20-foot equivalent container units.

South Carolina environmental regulators on Friday blocked a permit sought by the Army Corps of Engineers to deepen the Savannah River channel to the Port of Savannah, increasing tension between the st

Throughput at ports in the southeast Chinese province of Fujian from January to August rose 8.3 percent year-over-year to 6.1 million 20-foot equivalent container units.

India’s Port of Chennai appealed to container terminal operators, shipping lines and shippers to help ease congestion at the congested southeastern hub.

A tentative agreement between nearly 500 Canadian Auto Workers and Canada’s St.

Galborg Line, which operates a regularly scheduled multipurpose liner service from the U.S.

The Texas industrial real estate market is booming as shifting global trade patterns and demographic trends make Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston three of the hottest markets in the nation.

With container and general cargo volume steady and rising across the Gulf of Mexico, ports are spending much of their time expanding shoreside facilities in anticipation of increased Asian cargo flows

International container services partially resumed Friday at Japan’s Port of Sendai, the largest port in the northeastern Japanese region that bore the brunt of the devastating March 11 earthqua

Ace Hardware will invest $14 million in an import re-distribution center for the East Coast near Virginia’s Port of Norfolk.

The European Investment Bank approved an $82 million loan to finance the construction of a new container terminal in the Spanish Atlantic port of Cadiz.

The port of Felixstowe inaugurated the first deep water berths in the U.K. able to handle the latest generation of mega container ships on Wednesday.

The Port of Antwerp said on Tuesday it will speed up imports of products made from animals by centralizing their inspection at one border point and pass the savings to importers through 25 percent lo

Plans to build a $1.5 billion container terminal at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) got back on track after the consortium of Singapore’s PSA International and India's ABG Group recei

International Longshore and Warehouse Union President Bob McEllrath surrendered to law enforcement officials on Monday to face misdemeanour charges relating to blocking a train from entering a grain e

A federal court of appeals on Monday struck down a controversial employee-driver mandate in the Port of Los Angeles clean-truck program, dealing a severe blow to Teamsters’ effort to use the env

The Georgia Ports Authority board approved a $4.75 million project Monday that will expand the Port of Savannah’s capacity for refrigerated container storage by 45 percent, allowing the port to

Dubai’s DP World will boost annual capacity of its flagship Jebel Ali container terminal by 1 million 20-foot equivalent units to 15 million TEUs, as the United Arab Emirates’

DP World restarted operations at its Egyptian container terminal on Sunday night following the end of a six-day strike by dockworkers.

A $41 million project to better connect the site of Port of Corpus Christi’s long-delayed cargo terminal to the main shipping channel begins next month.

Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners’s up to $525 million investment in a Southern Illinois mine being will generate shipments of 6 to 6.5 million tons annually

Home Depot, reaping new benefits from its massive, multi-year supply chain overhaul, will use Fidelitone for parts and distribution services under a new contract between the third-party logistics prov

The Teamsters union and its environmental allies are turning up the heat dramatically in their campaign to redraw port trucking regulations, going directly after officials who oppose the changes.

Grain terminal operator EGT in Longview, Wash., received a 110-car rail shipment of wheat, moving the site closer to opening in the face of a massive labor protest.

The Port of Savannah this year became the second biggest container export port in the U.S.

The Commerce Department is inviting port and maritime technology companies to apply for a trade mission to India Feb. 16 to 24, 2012.

France’s state-owned SNCF Fret lost a major contract with a long standing customer to private operators, jeopardizing the rail cargo operator’s plans to end years of heavy losses and rebui

Logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel established a thrice-weekly highway service linking Shanghai and Guangzhou and said it is adding depots and offices as part of a

Dubai's Port & Free Zone World, which owns 80.5 percent of terminal operator DP World, signed an $850 milli

Hapag-Lloyd will discontinue calling at congested Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru Port), India’s largest container gateway, and instead will call on Mundra, a privately owned port.

The owners and operators responsible for a ship that spilled 53,000 gallons of oil in the San Francisco Bay in 2007 agreed on Monday to a $44 million settlement with federal, state and local agencies.

Import volume at the Port of New York and New Jersey grew 6.7 percent in July on a month-to-month basis to the highest point of 2011 although container volume fell back compared to last summer’s

Gulftainer, the Middle East’s largest private port operator, plans to invest $275 million to co-develop and operate a multipurpose cargo terminal at the Russian Baltic port of Ust-Luga

Vehicle shipments through the Port of Baltimore rose 12 percent to a record 270,700 units during the first six months of this year, the Maryland Port Administration said.

The Massachusetts Port Authority plans to replace up to 60 old drayage trucks at the Port of Boston through a $1.5 million program that includes a $500,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agen

Since it’s founding in 1934, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has prided itself in being a militant union, but its militancy was usually limited to walking off the job to take a p