Port News

Ports and most warehouses escaped serious damage, but freight networks in surrounding areas weren’t so lucky.

DP World sees India as a major growth area and to that end, the company previously announced a plan to spend $1 billion on new infrastructure projects in the emerging economy.

Truckers in LA-LB, and increasingly at other ports, are charging beneficial cargo owner customers for excessive time their drivers spend at congested marine terminals.

The Port of New York and New Jersey hosted its first 14,000 TEU ship on a regular service without a hitch Tuesday.

Success at organizing superintendents at APL and Pasha terminals has International Longshore and Warehouse Union looking forward to another victory.

Strike action by the Receita Federal (customs) in Brazil has intensified as it enters its fourth week and is now causing severe delays.

Despite its draught restrictions, the Port of Hamburg delivered Europe-leading reliability through the peak August to October period.

Bangladesh has revised it plans for the Payra port.

Exports to the largest global consumer of wastepaper are in serious trouble.

US Gulf ports’ share of the nation’s container trade has been inching up for several years.

Indian authorities handling the upgrade of the Chabahar port in Iran plan to team up with a local company.

The competitive service contract market has required major international carriers to make chassis available to many customers, despite carriers' vision to end chassis provision.

The $85.1 million dredging work will raise the outer bar of the Passur River.

Shippers have an opportunity to argue their case against detention and demurrage.

Hutchison Ports is poised to establish itself in the Black Sea.

The inability of mega-ships to enter and leave Hamburg fully loaded is affecting container throughput and could hurt the port's competitiveness.

The agreements bring the number of Hutchison Ports' terminal locations to 51 globally.

The port said it is in negotiations with an unnamed potential operator for the new Dames Point auto terminal.

Mundra represents as much as 90 percent of APSEZ’s container business.

One of the world’s largest container terminal operators is shifting its commercial strategy.

Hamburg's HHLA is the latest Europe port to post a strong increase in container throughput with 2017 shaping up as a good year.

“It’s a first step, but a critical first step.”

False logs are an "epidemic," and shippers are vulnerable, speakers tell the JOC Inland Distribution Conference. The latest federal data back them up.

“We need long-term planning.”

“The future is at hand.”

East and Gulf Coast ports through October grew their import volumes at more than double the pace of West Coast ports.

Compared with the approximately 3 percent increases of recent years, 2017 was a banner year.

A long-shot proposal has been floated to build a railroad that supporters say could make it quicker and cheaper to move cargo by land between Mexico’s Pacific and Gulf coasts than the Panama Canal.

Now that a West Coast longshore labor contract extension is in place through mid-2022, shippers are anxious for a similar deal to ensure continued labor peace on the East and Gulf coasts.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union-International Container Terminal Services, Inc. saga began in 2012.

International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance officials have been exploring a long-term extension for more than two years.

APM Terminal's Zeebrugge facility is now 76 percent owned by Cosco Shipping Ports.

India’s efforts to bring down cargo dwell times as part of a larger ease-of-doing-business program have yet to translate into steady improvements.

The settlement followed discussions between union leaders and government agencies Tuesday morning.

The terminal operating arm of the Maersk Group said challenging market conditions and industry overcapacity put pressure on profits.

DP World continues to target expansion in the Horn of Africa.

Hundreds of containers are stranded at the terminal and off-site yards.

North Carolina’ port hopes new Central American route will help make up volume loss after collapse of Hanjin Shipping.

Receita Federal (customs) officers in the port of Santos are escalating their slowdowns and strikes that began last week.