Port News

Security conditions at Libya’s ports of Tripoli and Benghazi have stabilized, aside from celebratory gunfire at the capital, allowing international trade to restart, according to GAC, a global l

Major Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co.

ILWU protestors clash with police near a controversial grain terminal in Longview, Wash.

Wal-Mart is “guardedly optimistic” about the rest of 2011 but sees a trend toward a “flatter” peak season for holiday shipments, said Kelly Abney, the retailer’s vice pre

Rail service has slipped because of bad weather and cost-cutting that have left railroads without enough train crews to operate trains or switch railcars frequently, shippers told an investment bank c

The July container volume at West Coast ports fell 3 percent compared to July 2010, despite another strong showing in exports.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union vowed to maintain its pickets at a newly built grain terminal in Longview, Wash., despite a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Tac

Saddle Creek promoted Mike DelBovo, a 14-year company veteran, to the new position of president of transportation at the contract logistics operator.

McDonalds’ plan to add more than 700 restaurants in China by 2013 signals the growing market for cold chain logistics providers.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration upheld the use of stickers to identify trucks complying with a drayage registry established by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Trucks drove through bridge toll gates an estimated 416,065 times last year to reach the New York Container Terminal on Staten Island. Total cost for the tolls: more than $14.5 million.

Ports around the United States are anxious to encourage greater use of intermodal rail for inbound shipments, but when does that encouragement amount to an illegal subsidy for rail transport?

The Port of Mobile’s upper harbor is expected to remain closed to traffic through Saturday after a heavy crude oil spill Thursday morning, said Alabama State Ports Authority spokesperson Judith

Port executives from Seattle and Tacoma use every forum possible to explain what they believe are the injustices of the Harbor Maintenance Tax.

Pete Reixach has his hands full.

Hapag-Lloyd said Friday it will increase its port congestion surcharge on containers moving to and from Port of Chennai, and Maersk Line added its own surcharges at India’s second-largest port.

The European Union lifted sanctions on Friday against six Libyan ports, allowing humanitarian relief and trade to resume to the nation in the wake of the violent revolt against the regime of Muammar G

Former Rear Adm. Wendi Carpenter on Thursday became the first female president of State University of New York Maritime College, the country’s largest and oldest maritime college.

The Coast Guard on Thursday closed the Port of Mobile's shipping channel because of a heavy crude oil spill, preventing several vessels from leaving the port.

Westports Malaysia in the first half saw volume rise 17 percent year-over-year to 3.1 million 20-foot container equivalent, as the port operator expands at Malaysia's top container gateway.

The North Carolina ports of Morehead City and Wilmington were fully operational Tuesday after closures in advance of Hurricane Irene. 



APM Terminals will design, build and operate a large terminal in Costa Rica under a $992 million contract with the country’s government that APM said would launch the largest infrastructure proj

Avnet’s e-commerce arm unveiled features allowing customers to track their inventory in bonded warehouses and create customized order reports, as the major electronic distributor beefed up its s

APM Terminals agreed to sell half, or a 25 percent share, of its stake in China's Xiamen Songyu Container Terminal, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.

Regular international container services will partially resume next month at the most important port in the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku, which bore the brunt of the earthquake and tsunami i

China Merchants Holdings (International) doubled its first half profit year-over-year to $501.1 million, as the port operator’s container volume grew and it received a one-time gain linked to a

OOCL plans to increase productivity at its Kaohsiung Container Terminal in Taiwan by up to 10 percent by adding two super-post-Panamax gantry cranes to the existing six cranes.

International port companies face rising losses at Vietnam’s showpiece Cai Mep container port as terminals are operating at less than half of their capacity, according to industry analyst Alphal

Big Lots is comfortable with its inventory levels being down more than 70 percent year-over-year, considering the “fragile” consumer market.

Major East Coast ports re-opened Monday and trucking and railroad companies slowly resumed services as they began making a full assessment of damage to transportation operations that took the impact o

APL Logistics is taking a “cautious” outlook for the rest of the year and into 2012, despite a strong first half-year performance and growth in emerging markets and automotive logistics.

Toll Group’s net profit in the fiscal year June 30 rose 1 percent year-over-year to $281 million, as the Australia-based logistics firm was hurt by an economic slowdown in its home country, part

U.S. port officials in the Pacific Northwest, saying higher taxes are partly behind the loss of business to Canada, are urging grain shippers to support efforts to change federal cargo fees.

The head of the American Trucking Associations wants Govs.

DP World boosted first half after-tax profit by 36 percent from a year ago to $281 million, as the global port operator benefited from

Cosco Pacific’s first half gross profit jumped 71 percent to $119.3 million as the Hong Kong-listed company posted sharply improved results from its terminal operations and container leasing, ma

North Carolina’s ports of Wilmington and Morehead City will close noon Friday as the coast braces for the impact of Hurricane Irene and the 115 miles-per-hour winds expected to hit landfall abou

The top executive at New York Container Terminal on Staten Island is urging the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to provide a frequent-user discount for truckers whose bridge tolls will more

A 23.5 percent rise in exports pushed the Port of Tacoma’s loaded container volume up 10 percent in July from the same period a year ago.

Russia’s northwestern port of Murmansk has been put up for sale with a price tag of around $700 million.