Kristine Zortman, executive director, Port of Redwood City says that the Port needs to increase dredging and develop new markets to expand on its construction materials and scrap metals business.

Catastrophic flooding in 2019 is slowing or stopping barge traffic along the Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas rivers and adversely impacting farmers and exports.

The new DSV-Panalpina is now the second largest air forwarder in the world behind DHL. Will the hookup trigger more mega-mergers in the highly fragmented air cargo handling industry?

A University of Rhode Island team has concluded that the top 100 US ports may need to invest between $57 billion to $78 billion to accommodate a two-meter increase in sea level rise and recent surveys indicate that some U.S. port designers are beginning to incorporate sea level rise into their planning process.

Barely three hours after a lockout of 6,500 dockers across British Columbia began today, a tentative deal for a new collective agreement was announced between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Canada and the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association. The previous agreement expired in March 2018.

Barring a last-minute breakthrough, nearly 7,000 dockworkers across British Columbia will be locked out by their employers starting with the first shift Thursday in the latest development in an ongoing labor dispute dominated by automation issues.

The Québec Port Authority (QPA) today announced the signing of a long-term commercial agreement with Hutchison Ports and Canadian National Railway to build and operate a new C$775 million container terminal, known as project Laurentia (previously Beauport 2020).

Despite current uncertainties associated with international trade, long-term trends in global demand for soybeans and their derivatives remain encouraging for American farmers.

Although in a legal strike position Monday (May 27th), the union representing longshore workers in the Vancouver area instead took targeted job action by notably banning overtime and left the door open to resuming negotiations with maritime employers on Canada’s west coast that had found no resolution over the weekend.