Port News

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

MIAMI - A hold was put on more import cargo as the Port of Miami continues to clear thousands of con

One of northern China's largest ports is implementing new technology to improve efficiency, aid in t

With strikes against the world's largest automakers again proving disruptive to their global supply

The northern Chinese Port of Dalian, already undergoing rapid expansion to cope with growing busines

The Port of Singapore Authority said it aims to boost container capacity to the equivalent of 16 mil

With construction complete and most equipment in place, trial runs have begun at the new container t

China's principal northern port of Tianjin has opened another joint-venture wharf and its first free

China has agreed to allow Mongolia, its long-estranged neighbor, to use the Port of Tianjin as a tra

Ports these days know there's more to capturing steamship lines than marine facilities alone.

Officials in northeastern Tianjin are planning to import lighting and other equipment to develop the

International Longshoremen's Association leaders from Maine to Texas gather today in Tampa, Fla., for meetings that the union's new president, John Bowers, calls the most important ones in ILA history."

The arrival here this week of the Nedlloyd Lines vessel Rouen inaugurated the first-ever roll-on rol