Port News

A modest recovery in container volume appears to be underway at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and exports are leading the way.

Logistics and distribution real estate providers have had plenty of reasons to feel pessimistic lately.

Gulf Coast ports are hunkering down for the late-season storm Ida, with larger vessels set to take extra precautions and shipping brought to a standstill even as the tropical storm appears to be losin

When the Port of Oakland submitted its application for a TIGER grant under the Obama administration’s economic stimulus program, the Northern California port wanted to differentiate itself from the hu

Like the competitive battle between East, Gulf and West Coast ports for discretionary cargo, ports in the Pacific Northwest compete for volume with Southern California’s ports of Los Angeles and Long

The Port of New York and New Jersey is unique in many ways, and one is in the hiring of longshoremen.

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma reported mixed results in September container volumes although the trend lines are generally positive.

The battle to organize harbor truck drivers at U.S.

The Port of Los Angeles’s task of defending its clean-trucks plan against a lawsuit by the American Trucking Associations got suddenly more difficult on Oct.

When APM Terminals opened its highly automated $500 million container terminal in Portsmouth, Va., in the fall of 2007, it presented a direct competitive threat to the three state-owned and operated c

The Port of Corpus Christi’s long-delayed plan to build a container terminal on a 1,100-acre tract of land called the La Quinta Trade Gateway is being resuscitated as part of a multi-phase, mixed-use

When logistics industry analyst Steve Banker prepares a report on strategy and trends in supply chains for consumer goods or beverages, he knows where to start.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the departures board showed a single flight to Beijing — right above five listings for Bentonville, Ark.

Users of East and Gulf Coast ports are looking forward to three years of labor peace between the International Longshoremen’s Association and waterfront employers.

West Coast ports, and especially Los Angeles-Long Beach, will have to significantly improve their productivity and establish a reputation for reliability if they are to avoid a further loss of market

Having already lost about four percent of their market share of Asian cargo to Canadian and East Coast ports the past few years, and hoping to avoid a further diversion of cargo when the Panama Canal

Chicken’s popularity among global consumers is proving largely recession-resistant, propping up poultry exporters and the Gulf ports and terminals they use.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the founders of Canada’s Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative should be proud of their work.

The U.S. Gulf’s proximity to Central America has long kept the region’s ports busy with imports of perishable melons, cantaloupes, bananas and other fruits and vegetables.

In its 2004 report entitled “Harboring Pollution: The Dirty Truth About U.S.

Fixing the low air draft of the Bayonne Bridge so that new, large ships can serve the Port of New York and New Jersey’s four terminals will be neither quick nor cheap. The U.S.

For the first time in decades, the share of total U.S.

Fifteen years ago, no one worried whether container ships were too tall to clear the Bayonne Bridge.

Washington supporters of trucking and shipper interests are girding themselves for a stealth attack from adversaries that want to push legislation through Congress that gives port authorities the righ

Cargo volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in August increased over the previous month as the nation's two largest ports prepared for what is expected to be a short peak shipping season.

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles intend soon to eliminate a reporting requirement that cargo interests said was an unnecessary and costly administrative burden associated with the ports' clean-

The Houston area’s container-hauling drayage truckers will be both targets and beneficiaries of a revolving fund to finance clean-truck upgrades or purchases of new rigs, under a $9 million stim

Container volumes at West Coast ports in July lagged far behind last year's numbers.

Bolstered by a two-year track record of reducing pollution, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are finally positioned to move forward on billions of dollars of capital projects.

Marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach will maintain the PierPass traffic mitigation fee at the current level of $50 per TEU despite declining cargo volumes.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, long viewed as the most fee-focused ports in the country, will not initiate their proposed infrastructure fee anytime soon.

Port workers and truck drivers only need one Florida criminal background check instead of multiple, duplicate checks to work at three South Florida seaports.

Hard hit by a steep drop-off in coal shipments, which account for about half the port’s business during normal years, the Alabama State Port Authority announced today that it is laying off 86 do

Clean diesel and liquefied natural gas trucks now handle 52 percent of the containers moving through the Port of Long Beach, according to a study released by the port.

Harbor trucking companies in Los Angeles and Long Beach should meet the Jan.

The Port of Tampa is planning to tear down its ailing 35-year-old Harborside cold storage facility and concentrate on container cargo rather than breakbulk perishables.

Containerized imports at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles fell 22.3 percent in June, the steepest combined decline at the nation’s largest port complex since March, according to figures r

Hampton Boulevard offers a winding, often scenic path from Norfolk, Va., to Portsmouth, taking just six miles to go from one port terminal to another through bustling neighborhoods that include a hosp

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expanding its incentive program to get ocean shippers to use rail, offering $25 per container for new business booked on the authority’s ExpressRail sy