Virginia port truck drivers sent a letter last week asking operators to pay higher rates when Norfolk-area terminals are congested, but trucking companies say they already do.

The Port of Virginia’s system is off to a good start; however it remains to be seen whether the shorter turn times will hold up once mandatory appointments expand to the congested Virginia International Gateway and Portsmouth Marine Terminal.

Carriers’ refusal to reduce capacity on the verge of service contracting season has the east-bound Pacific looking at only minimal rate increases of perhaps $100 per FEU to the West Coast, and possible rate reductions to the East Coast.

Winter weather that closed the Port of Virginia for four days contributed to a $560,000 operating loss for the port authority during February.

Los Angeles-Long Beach will always be a vital U.S. gateway, but the nine-month labor dispute that helped bring West Coast ports to the brink of being shutdown is making shippers and industry analysts take a hard look at the trans-Pacific supply chain.

Celadon Trucking acquired A&S Services Group, a regional truckload carrier and port drayage operator with a

Robust April imports through several U.S. ports are at least partly related to initial effects of shippers accelerating import shipments to avoid potential disruption at West Coast ports tied to longshore labor negotiations.

Container volumes handled by U.S. West Coast ports grew more than three times faster than those at East Coast ports in the first eight months of the year, as lingering effects of last year’s labor negotiations and computer problems at one of the biggest terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey dragged down overall throughput growth.

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services is adding a Norfolk, Va., call to its Zim Container Service Pacific service.

Icelandic shipping company Eimskip has signed a contract with Maine Port Authority to begin new container service operations out of the recently renovated International Marine Terminal...

CSX Transportation shippers with intermodal shipments destined for the Port of New York and New Jersey but diverted to mi

All marine terminals in the Port of Virginia reopened Tuesday at 8 a.m., two hours later than usual, following the passin

China will begin to lift its ban on imports of Virginia's hardwood and softwood logs under a six-month pilot project, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Wednesday.

The Port of Virginia will gain a “first-in” vessel call in June when MOL will begin making weekly calls at Norfolk International Terminals with its new all-water service between the Far Ea

Ace Hardware will invest $14 million in an import re-distribution center for the East Coast near Virginia’s Port of Norfolk.