With the long-awaited boom in US production of synthetic resins expected to finally materialize this year, shippers are urging carriers to add more services from the Gulf to Asia. But will ocean carriers respond?

US Gulf ports have gotten a taste of Asian all-water container services and are hungry for more.

This spring’s arrival of three post-Panamax cranes at the Port of Gulfport, Mississippi, has been upstaged by a shipyard contract that’s expected to get the port off the hook for repayment of millions of dollars in hurricane relief funds.

U.S. Gulf ports’ container traffic started strong in 2015, with more than a little help from slowdowns and congestion that hobbled West Coast ports and made shippers look for alternatives.

Dredging to restore the ship channel at the Port of Gulfport, Mississippi, to its authorized 36-foot depth has begun after years of delays.

Chiquita Brands International will shift its Gulfport, Mississippi, calls, and an estimated 60,000 to 78,000 20-foot-equivalent units annually, to New Orleans next year.

Jonathan Daniels, executive director of the Port of Oswego, N.Y., since 2007,

The Gulf ports of New Orleans, Mobile and Gulfport remained closed Thursday morning in the wake of Hurricane Isaac as port executives waited to assess port and ocean conditions before reopening.

Great expectations are colliding with hard reality at the Port of Gulfport, Miss., where state officials are considering modifications to a $570 million rebuilding and expansion project.

The prospects of renewed southbound services, direct links with Asia and new intermodal connections excite the U.S. Gulf’s major container ports.