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Several large shippers say they are now providing rolling forecasts of their demand outlook to improve coordination with ocean carriers following supply and demand disconnects in recent years.

APM Terminals won a 25-year concession to operate the container terminal at the port of Gothenburg, Sweden’s biggest container gateway.

The judge handling the volatile jurisdictional dispute at a grain terminal in Washington provided little clarification of the situation by suggesting a labor arbitrator should determine the legality o

International container traffic during the first six months of 2011 at the Port of Nagoya rose 4.9 percent year-over-year, as auto exports grew 38.3 percent at Japan's top global trade port and gatewa

A $120 million port and multimodal transport project in Myanmar will open up international trade with India’s isolated North East provinces.

India’s port privatization program suffered a serious setback when all major shortlisted bidders pull

Just how successful has PierPass been at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach?

The Georgia Ports Authority approved a $4.75 million project that will expand the Port of Savannah’s capacity for refrigerated container storage by 45 percent.

North American railcar owners pulled 11,087 more units out of sidings and other storage areas in September, for the largest drawdown of the idled car fleet since March.

The number of foreign trade containers moving through the Port of Tokyo rose 9.7 percent in the fi

The Port of Los Angeles said Thursday it will not appeal an appeals court ruling striking do

“If it was easy, everyone would be doing it,” the logistics director for a large U.S. health care products importer and exporter said recently.

The Canadian government said it will “vigorously defend” its trade policies and infrastructure investments against any of the findings of a Federal Maritime Commission study looking into t

Georgia’s Port of Brunswick hit an annual record in auto and machinery unit traffic, as the number of units handled grew 40 percent year-over-year in the fiscal year 2011 that ended June 30, sai

Wal-Mart said it has learned to treat each supplier uniquely and when to let vendors run their own transportation since taking control of inbound logistics from its suppliers 18 months ago.

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.

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.

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

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