Port News

Port workers and truck drivers only need one Florida criminal background check instead of multiple, duplicate checks to work at three South Florida seaports.

Hard hit by a steep drop-off in coal shipments, which account for about half the port’s business during normal years, the Alabama State Port Authority announced today that it is laying off 86 do

Clean diesel and liquefied natural gas trucks now handle 52 percent of the containers moving through the Port of Long Beach, according to a study released by the port.

Harbor trucking companies in Los Angeles and Long Beach should meet the Jan.

The Port of Tampa is planning to tear down its ailing 35-year-old Harborside cold storage facility and concentrate on container cargo rather than breakbulk perishables.

Containerized imports at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles fell 22.3 percent in June, the steepest combined decline at the nation’s largest port complex since March, according to figures r

Hampton Boulevard offers a winding, often scenic path from Norfolk, Va., to Portsmouth, taking just six miles to go from one port terminal to another through bustling neighborhoods that include a hosp

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expanding its incentive program to get ocean shippers to use rail, offering $25 per container for new business booked on the authority’s ExpressRail sy

The Florida Department of Transportation plans to build a dedicated truck ramp from the Port of Tampa to the interstate as part of a $600 million Interstate 4 – Crosstown Expressway Connector project

West Coast ports want Congress and the Obama administration to look beyond highways and bridges and include more funding for seaports in the next surface transportation act.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are working overtime to change their reputation among cargo interests as being the nation’s high-cost, business-adverse gateway for trade with Asia.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are on track to achieve many of the environmental goals in their clean-trucks program almost four years ahead of schedule, thanks to an aggressive strategy for

The Port of Long Beach can “live with” a court order limiting its ability to impose concession plans on the harbor trucking industry, but will fight to keep what it considers key elements

At a time when federal support for high-speed rail is grabbing headlines, the nation needs to pay more attention to its ports, says the head of one of the nation’s largest container ports.

West Coast waterfront employers are bracing for a 30 percent increase in the assessments that fund longshore benefits programs, unless last-minute deals can be worked out with the union and federal re

The California Air Resources Board is prepared to help the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach subsidize purchases of low-emission trucks, but CARB does not want the ports’ clean-trucks fees to be a h

The marine terminal operating industry is perplexed by the deal Ports America struck with the Port of Oakland in March.

Port of Long Beach employees must take off five days of work without pay by the end of the port’s fiscal year on Sept. 30, the port confirmed.

Frederick Potter is assuming his new position as director of the Teamsters’ port division with humility and a keen awareness of the magnitude of the task that lies ahead.

The hazy regulatory skies that have hovered over harbor trucking for 30 years are becoming a bit clearer thanks to recent federal court rulings in California.

Containerized imports moving through the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex in April plunged 21.5 percent, demonstrating that the long-awaited turn-around in international trade is not on the immedia

The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

Philadelphia’s dream of becoming a major East Coast container port will take a step forward this week when four consortia bidding on a massive proposed terminal submit the first of their two proposals

Fitch Ratings placed the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority bonds on "rating watch negative" due to declining container volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Two Pacific Northwest ports saw container volume fall in March but Seattle and Tacoma in Washington state also signs that the drop in box business had reached bottom.

Complying with the PortCheck and PierPass programs in Los Angeles-Long Beach is a cumbersome task that is motivating shippers and freight intermediaries to look to other gateways for their discretiona

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports hit its lowest level in seven years in February as the number of containers dropped below 1 million for the first time in half a

The Port of Seattle Commission unanimously approved a package of incentives for terminal operators that will provide $7 million in rent breaks and defer some payments in return for steps they take to

The docks that make up port cargo terminals, where millions of steel containers full of freight are transferred from ships to the shore or the other way around, are normally a death-defying place to b

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday unanimously approved an exhaustive environmental study, paving the way for the port’s first major capital improvement project in more than

With its contract negotiations on hold and a civil racketeering lawsuit moving slowly, the International Longshoremen’s Association is wrestling with another problem -- a financial crisis that has roi

A controversial provision of the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks provision hit a legal roadblock, but that actually may speed up the introduction of low-emission trucks at the LA-Long Beach harbor.

Terminal operators at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will eliminate one shift per week under the popular PierPass extended gates program, starting the week of April 6.

The unpopular clean-trucks fees that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began collecting in mid-February could end within a year if motor carriers continue to finance the purchase of environmenta

When Hurricane Katrina forced the closing of New Orleans International Airport in 2005, FedEx quickly set up ramp facilities in nearby Lafayette and Biloxi and used them to truck shipments into parts

Shares in Chinese port operator Tianjin Port Development rose 26 percent during the company's initia

The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINETianjin, one of Northern China's a major ports, plans to inves

MIAMI -- A convoy of close to 200 trucks snarled traffic in Miami's commercial and business district

LOS ANGELES -- Importers and exporters who ship their cargo through Los Angeles-Long Beach during th

The Virginia Port Authority said container cargo moving through the Port of Virginia during the fisc