Port News

India plans to build seven ports by 2017, using 7.6 billion in public and private funds, according to reports

A longshoreman fell to his death in a breakbulk ship Saturday in the second fatal accident in eight days on the Philadelphia waterfront.

The Coast Guard is warning vessels and ports in South Florida to be prepared for gale force winds from Hurricane Irene within 48 hours.

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In the Year of the Tiger, China showed its stripes.

Jim Newsome is methodical and detailed in describing the 10-year, $1.3 billion capital improvement program at the Port of Charleston, but the South Carolina port’s president and CEO takes on som

Truck tolls at bridges and tunnels linking New Jersey and New York City will more than double over the next five years under an increase approved Friday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jerse

Cargo through Port of Rotterdam in the first half of the year increased 1 percent year-over-year to 215 million metric tons, as a 9.7 increase in container handling helped offset a decline in oil prod

Shifting trade patterns in the Far East and Southeast Asia may insulate ports in the region from the impact of weaker east-west trade as a result of the debt crisis in Europe and the faltering U.S.

The latest diesel emissions inventory released by the Port of Los Angeles shows that the Clean Air Action Plan reduced pollution more than 70 percent in 2010 even as cargo volume rose by 5 percent.

Container traffic at New Zealand’s Port of Tauranga rose 15.5 percent year-over-year to 590,506 20-foot equivalent container units in fiscal year 2011 ending June 30, as its transshipment volume

Container throughput at the Port of Wilmington, N.C., increased 14 percent in June over the same month a year ago to 23,598 20-foot equivalent units.

RailAmerica said 34 of its customers in the first half of the year announced plans to build, expand or reopen facilities, generating more than 25,000 annual carloads for the short line operator within

Wal-Mart Stores says it reduced the impact of rising diesel fuel prices this spring by some two-thirds through transportation efficiency programs in its distribution network.

Canada National and Canadian Pacific railways’ new and expanded transload centers for stuffing lumber, logs and other products into containers bound for Asia will help the ports at Vancouver and

Container traffic at the Port of Singapore rose 4.7 percent in July to 2.6 million 20-foot equivalent container units from last year, giving the port its busiest month in at least 19 months.

Emirates Shipping Line is imposing a port congestion surcharge on import containers at India’s troubled Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru).

Containerized imports at the Port of Charleston jumped 11.8 percent in June compared to the same month a year ago but exports fell back 2.7 percent amid signs the slumping economy was affecting shippi

China Merchants Holdings is teaming up with two Sri Lankan partners to build a $500 million container terminal in the Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Container throughput at the Port of Hamburg jumped 17.4 percent in the first half of 2011 from the same six-month period last year, as carriers added new and expanded liner services consisting of larg

Container traffic at Spain’s Port of Algeciras Bay grew 3.9 percent to 1.5 million 20-foot equivalent units in the first half of the year from the same period a year ago, largely due to a record

Home improvement retailer Lowe’s, facing higher shipping costs and weakening sales, is ramping up a dramatic increase in online sales operations and shipping more goods directly to customers fro

Containerized imports declined a combined 2.3 percent at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in July compared to the same month last year, as the ports handling fell short of an especially strong

Nine container ship lines want the Federal Maritime Commission to order the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to quit collecting a fee that they claim illegally subsidizes intermodal rail ship

CEVA Logistics’ profit rose 24.6 percent to $115 million from the same period a year ago, as increased freight management business offset softening freight volumes.

The Port of Montreal bought two more multiple-generator locomotives that burn less fuel and produce less carbon emissions than previous models.

Import container volume at the Port of New York and New Jersey slipped 0.5 percent in June from the same month a year ago, the port's first monthly decline in 20 months.

Two longshore workers were killed in work accidents at Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in Philadelphia and Maher Terminals in Port Newark, N.J.

Harbor truckers have complained for years that marine terminal gates are a source of lengthy yet preventable delays in the transportation supply chain.

Epic problems this summer at India’s largest container port provide a stark example of the hurdles the country faces in raising its profile in world trade, and the reality-bending challenges to

Europe Container Terminals in Rotterdam is replacing its first-generation automated guided vehicles nearly 20 years after pioneering the use of the equipment to shuttle containers between container cr

Miami developers’ attempt to build high-rise condominiums at the site of terminals serving the Caribbean was thwarted after the Florida Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court’s ru

Logistec USA will invest $5 million in Georgia’s Port of Brunswick to expand its capacity to handle exports of biomass fuels made from Georgia’s wood and peanut pellets.

The Green Alliance, formerly known as the CKYH alliance, will discontinue in September its weekly container service to the Port of Halifax in Nova Scotia.

Singapore-based ocean carrier APL said it is struggling to connect exports via terminals in India’s Port of Chennai because of severe port congestion and yard delays.

The growing demand for port capacity over the next five years will outpace terminal expansion, leading to rapidly rising utilization levels at many ports, especially in the Far East and Southeast Asia

Trac Intermodal said it will expand its new damage-waiver program for leased chassis to New York-New Jersey and Baltimore on Sept. 1, and nationwide by year’s end.

The Port of Baltimore moved up the rankings of U.S. ports in 2010 in terms of the dollar value and the tonnage of the cargo it handled, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said Tuesday.

Hapag-Lloyd said Tuesday it will apply “port congestion surcharges” on all containerized cargo moving to and from Chennai, the second major Indian port to attract such charges in recent we

Global port operator International Container Terminal Services’ profit jumped 42 percent in the first six months of this year to $42.4 million, compared with the same period a year ago.