Port News

Georgia’s state legislature has approved funding an additional $50 million for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project.

The South Carolina Ports Authority and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control have extended their air quality partnership through 2018.

The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Nagoya in central Japan edged up 0.8 percent in 2012 from a year earlier to 2.492 million 20-foot equivalent units, according to preliminary figures released by the Nagoya municipal government.

Strikes by dockworkers at Hong Kong’s container facilities continued today, further disrupting truck operations to and from facilities in the Kwai Tsing area of the port.

West Coast ports have developed business plans to enhance their competitiveness, with the common theme being construction of port and transportation infrastructure that will make the West Coast the most efficient gateway for international intermodal cargo.

U.S. West Coast ports handled 13.1 million 20-foot-equivalent units or 67.5 percent of the 19.4 million TEUs in U.S. containerized cargo trade with Asian countries in 2012, a decline of 0.3 percent year-over-year and just 0.5 percent above the pre-recession year of 2008.

Ceres Marine Terminals has named Douglas Wolfe as vice president, effective April 1.

The Massachusetts Port Authority has named Jose Masso director of community relations and Jim Doolin chief development officer.

Jubail Commercial Port in Saudi Arabia will take delivery of six rail-mounted gantry cranes from Liebherr Container Cranes.

Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport, has announced plans to “radically overhaul” the nation’s 19 commercial ports and give the government a more hands-on role in the sector...

If the new International Longshoremen’s Association contract works as planned, the Port of New York and New Jersey will become more productive and less costly over the next six years.

The Port of Houston Authority’s port commission has approved two memoranda of agreement with the U.S Army Corps of Engineers for maintenance dredging at its two container terminals.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett has written to ILA members, urging them to ratify a six-year contract agreement covering dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports.

Long Beach and Los Angeles must work harder than ever if they want to retain their position as the nation’s largest port complex, speakers at the annual Pulse of the Ports seminar in Long Beach said Wednesday.

PSA International, the operator of the Port of Singapore, reported profit in 2012 was S$1.29 billion (about US$1.04 billion), rising 11.5 percent from $930.52 million in 2011.

International Longshoremen’s Association members will vote April 9 on a landmark contract that was starting to look impossible without a strike.

Unionized truckers in India have called for an indefinite work stoppage starting at midnight March 31 to protest against deregulation of fuel prices and a steep hike in insurance premiums.

Busan Port Authority’s port committee has elected Jong-su Park as its 10th port chairman.

The Georgia Ports Authority reported total cargo moved in February was 2.27 million tons, rising 147,650 tons, or 6.9 percent from February 2012.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said he plans an aggressive effort to transform the union into a “New ILA” that will cultivate closer links with other unions in the U.S. and abroad.

After review applicants, the Port of Seattle’s commission today announced the finalists for a vacancy created by Rob Holland’s resignation.

In January and February, Lithuania’s Port of Klaipėda and Būtingės terminal handled 62,879 20-foot-equivalent units, improving 8.3 percent compared with the same period last year.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on “conflict minerals,” to get interested parties’ views on a potential European Union initiative for responsible sourcing of minerals coming from conflict zones and high-risk areas...

The Port of Felixstowe has received delivery of three rail-mounted gantry cranes, which form part of a new rail terminal at the U.K. port.

Brittany Ferries has launched a weekly service between the Port of Poole in the U.K. and the Port of Bilbao, Spain.

HHLA’s net profit slumped 18.9 percent in 2012 on rising costs even as Hamburg’s biggest stevedore increased container traffic amid a slump in Asian imports and boosted its market share in the North European port range.

The attempt by private infrastructure investors to cash in on future revenue at the Port of Virginia ended Tuesday when the state agency that runs the port decided that two private bidders had not offered enough to replace the money the state stood to make if it held onto the container terminals.

Demonstrating the importance of intermodal rail to Southern California, the Port of Long Beach on Tuesday broke ground on an $84 million project to add tracks and a support yard for on-dock rail operations.

The American Association of Port Authorities’ board of directors has elected Tay Yoshitani, CEO of the Port of Seattle, as chairman.

DP World’s Vallarpadam terminal in India today received its first transshipment mainline service.

The Virginia Port Authority’s board of commissioners turned down two bids to buy the leases of the ports’ container terminals and voted instead to restructure its operating company and overhaul the port’s long-term strategy.

At the end of 2013, representatives of inland shipping operators, seaport terminals, depots, shipping companies, hinterland terminals, the Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure...

APM Terminals’ new Maasvlakte II terminal site in the Netherlands has received delivery of the first two of a total of 26 automated rail-mounted gantry cranes.

Representatives from Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish Economic Development Authority and the Port of Terrebonne have determined that liquefied natural gas will offer a “huge opportunity” for exportation for regional Gulf Coast ports...

Port Everglades has announced that Guatemala is a key target market for the South Florida port.

The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union have sent a joint letter to U.S. Sens. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and other officials...

The Port of New Orleans’ board of commissioners has notified AECOM Technical Services to begin the design of the port’s new Mississippi River Intermodal Terminal Project.

The 2013 shipping season at the Port of Duluth-Superior in Minnesota, on the western edge of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system, has kicked off.