Port News

West Coast ports recorded solid gains in container traffic in June, with imports up 4 percent over the same month last year, and total volume increasing 3 percent.

Portus Services LLC has acquired St. Johns Shipping, a private stevedore and terminal operator in Port Everglades, Fla., for an undisclosed price.

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Yusen Logistics Co.

DP World’s container traffic increased 7.5 percent in the first half of 2012 from a year ago as strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region and the Indian subcontinent outweighed sluggish activity

APM Terminals has signed a 32-year concession contract to design, finance, build, operate and maintain a container terminal at Mexico’s Port of Lazaro Cardenas.

Panalpina expects further growth on its intra-Asia and Asia-Latin America trades by air and sea in the coming months.

Malfunctioning cranes at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru Container Terminal (Nhava Sheva Port) are wreaking havoc on berthing schedules of vessels calling at the country’s top box gateway.

Volume on the Port of New York and New Jersey’s ExpressRail intermodal rail service at marine terminals jumped 10 percent during the first half of 2012, the port authority reported.

Transport operator Arkansas Best delivered an $11.8 million net profit in the second quarter, recovering from <

Waterfront employers and office clerical workers in Southern California softened the tone of their rhetoric Tuesday and agreed to resume contract negotiations at 10 a.m. Pacific time.

Georgia officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a $22.5 million overpass that will route trucks over six rail tracks at the Port of Savannah&rsquo;s on-terminal Mason Intermodal Container Transfe

Kuehne + Nagel has won a major retail contract to provide ocean freight logistics management services for Hong Kong-based Group subsidiary Metro Group Buying for the next three years.

Panalpina&rsquo;s second quarter profit tumbled 37.5 percent from a year ago, but the Swiss logistics and freight forwarder boosted its ocean and air freight market shares.

Contract negotiations between office clerical workers and the attorney representing waterfront employers in Los Angel

Knud Stubkjaer, a former senior executive with Maersk Line and German shipowner E.R. Schiffahrt, has been named CEO of Carrix, the parent of Seattle-based SSA Marine and Tideworks Technology.

They&rsquo;re not there yet, but the International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and United States Maritime Alliance are reporting progress on a new master contract for East and Gulf Coast dockwork

From his office window in the New York Container Terminal, Jim Devine can see the rigs blasting rock at the bottom of the Arthur Kill, deepening the channel leading to the terminal&rsquo;s berths to 5

While the International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and United States Maritime Alliance churn the wake on the East and Gulf coasts, all should be calm on the West Coast.

It&rsquo;s taken three years, but the opening of MOL&rsquo;s TraPac international container terminal is turning the Port of Jacksonville into a growing import gateway and distribution center for retai

International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association President Harold Daggett announced plans for the union&rsquo;s affiliation with a global dockworkers&rsquo; organization that previous ILA regimes kept a

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A divided Federal Maritime Commission issued

China&rsquo;s ports saw growth slow in the first half of the year as European import demand softened.

The Surface Transportation Board wants to change rules to ensure all captive shippers have a "meaningful way" to challenge railroad rates and says it is still considering a shipper proposal

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a $649.5 million contract with a joint-venture team to design and build a replacement bridge for the 44-year old Gerald Desmond Bridge.

June was a strong month at the Port of Tacoma, with container volumes increasing almost 10 percent compared to June

The Federal Maritime Commission voted 3-2 to adopt a report said to be critical of Canadian actions to encourage diversion of U.S.-bound cargo to Canadian ports.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Barcelona declined by 20 percent in the first six months of the year from the same period last year, primarily because of a 49 percent drop in transship

Rail Logistics-Cold Train is expanding its refrigerated intermodal service, bringing its container fleet up to 300 53-foot units and adding East Coast destinations.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Marseilles Fos grew 14 percent in the first half year year-over-year, while the twin ports&rsquo; overall tonnage fell because of shrinking oil volume.<

Abu Dhabi&rsquo;s Khalifa Port has received its first container vessel call.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah during fiscal 2011 ended June 30 grew by a relatively meager 1.9 percent year-over-year due to what the Georgia Ports Authority called the &ldq

Pantos Logistics has won a contract to provide international rail transportation services for a General Motors joint venture in Asia.

Hong Kong and southern China face port and airport disruption today and Tuesday as typhoon Vicente hits land.

West Coast ports have access to millions of square feet of warehouse and distribution space, but those hubs can be as far as 50 miles from the ports.

In this podcast, JOC Editor Joseph Bonney reports live from Delray Beach, Fla., where labor contract negotiations are taking place between the International Longshoremen's Associatio

Port of Oakland executives will begin making a 5 percent contribution to their retirement programs under the newly adopted fiscal year 2012-13 budget.

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The International Longshoremen&rsquo;s Association and United States Maritime Alliance ended three days of negotiations with optimism about a strike-free contract for East and Gulf Coast dockworkers.<

Intermodal growth and higher truckload rates helped Swift Transportation boost second quarter net profit 72 percent from a year ago to $33.7 million.