International Longshore and Warehouse Union members walked off their jobs yesterday for the second day in a row after a verbal altercation with employees of ICTSI Oregon, the operator of Portland’s only container terminal.
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05 Mar 2014
Global terminal operator DP World on March 5 broke ground on its second container terminal at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), India’s largest box gateway.
05 Mar 2014
Michael DiVirgilio, senior vice president, development, of Ceres Terminals, is set to retire on April 1 after several years at the terminal operator.
05 Mar 2014
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Ed DeNike has little confidence in drayage appointment systems at container terminals but says SSA Containers has speeded the flow of containers by sorting them for truckers to pick up as a block instead of one by one.
03 Mar 2014
The past year has been tumultuous for the U.S. maritime industry, with powerful vessel-sharing alliances deploying mega-ships to West Coast ports, terminal operators consolidating their facilities, carriers exiting the chassis business and, on the national scene, implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act.
03 Mar 2014
In the fifth part of “Inside the Box Terminal,” Global Terminals’ Rich Ceci updates progress toward the expansion’s April 16 completion date — and discusses the impact of winter weather.
27 Feb 2014
Global port-terminal operator PSA International has been selected to build and operate the long-delayed fourth container terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port, India’s largest container hub, through a public-private partnership development scheme.
27 Feb 2014
Maersk Line today posted a lower profit for the fourth quarter of 2013, but its full-year profit tripled, thanks to higher volumes and steep cost cuts, which offset lower freight rates.
21 Feb 2014
PSA International is set to win the public-private partnership contract to build and operate a fourth container terminal at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), two years after the Singapore-based company pulled a winning bid for the planned terminal over differences with its local partner.
21 Feb 2014
Despite fears of an economic slowdown and the Chinese New Year factory shutdown starting earlier this year than in 2013, most of China’s top container ports recorded healthy levels of throughput growth last month, according to the latest figures from the Shanghai Shipping Exchange.
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