Ports & Terminals

On Monday, April 27, 2015, port truck drivers serving the nation’s largest port complex began a strike of four major drayage firms serving the twin ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach, where a crippling slowdown in early 2015 sent shock waves through the U.S. economy. Read More »

Egypt’s revenue from the Suez Canal was $420.1 million in March, a government website said on Tuesday, up from $382 million in February. Read More »

Tractor-trailer drivers who haul freight from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach went on strike against four trucking firms on Monday, demanding recognition as employees rather than contractors in a move reviving labor tension around the country’s busiest cargo hub. Read More »

A consortium led by France’s Bollore failed to make the final shortlist of firms vying to manage a new container terminal in Cameroon’s southern port of Kribi, according to a commission report seen by Reuters on Monday. Read More »

Truckers who haul freight from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will go on strike against four ground-shipment companies on Monday, a Teamsters union official said, in a move that could revive labor tension at the nation’s busiest cargo hub. Read More »

Dubai’s DP World, one of the world’s biggest port operators, said on Monday it had no plans to buy back any of its shares after investors approved a technical measure allowing the company to do so. Read More »

The MOL Northern Juvenile, capable of carrying 8,800 twenty-foot equivalent units, set a record today as the largest container ship to ever call on Jacksonville. The ship, which transited the Suez Canal from Asia before reaching the U.S. East Coast, loaded and offloaded cargo at JAXPORT’s TraPac Container Terminal at Dames Point. Read More »

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy visited the Port of Houston Authority Thursday to formally announce the Port Authority's award of a second grant aimed at improving air quality in the region. She announced the port will receive a Diesel Emission Reduction Act (DERA) grant of nearly $900,000. Read More »

The road leading to the Lagos port, which handles nearly everything that Africa’s biggest economy imports, is one of the most congested in a megacity whose traffic jams are legendary. Read More »

Dubai’s DP World, one of the world’s biggest port operators, reported on Monday a 4.4% rise in gross container volumes on a like-for-like basis in the first quarter of 2015. Read More »

Truckers who haul freight from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will vote on Saturday whether to go on strike, organizers said, in a move that could revive labor tensions at the nation’s busiest cargo hub as it recovers from a crippling dockworkers dispute. Read More »

The Norwegian Sea-Cargo Hub in Rotterdam has been officially opened by Rik Pek, General Manager Broekman Logistics, and Ole Saevild, CEO Sea-Cargo. The new Sea-Cargo Hub enables Broekman Logistics to provide the best-possible connections for serving the Scandinavian market. Read More »

More than 100 cargo owners, trucking firm leaders, longshore labor, marine terminals and other goods movement industry representatives turned out Wednesday for a joint meeting hosted by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to gather input, insights and solutions focused on improving the performance of the supply chain. Read More »

The BMW Group broke ground at the future site of a new Vehicle Distribution Center at the Port of Galveston.  Read More »

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the U.S. government had sent "very direct messages" to Iran warning it not to send weapons to Yemen that could be used to threaten shipping traffic in the region. Read More »

Fort Worth, Texas-based crane component specialist Flow in Motion LLC, working with its partner Woelfer Motoren, of Germany, will supply motors and other components for five container cranes scheduled for delivery to U.S. ports in Jacksonville and Tampa next year. Read More »

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation, and provider of operational technologies that unlock greater performance and efficiency for the world’s leading terminal operators, today announced a new N4 terminal operating system (TOS) license agreement with Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), a fast-growing, privately owned container terminal located in Latvia’s capital city, Riga. Read More »

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has received two separate orders from one of the world's leading container terminal operators, International Container Services Inc. (ICTSI) in the Philippines. Kalmar will deliver in total 42 Kalmar Ottawa terminal tractors, five Kalmar reachstackers and two Kalmar rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) to Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), and 16 Kalmar Ottawa terminal tractors and two Kalmar RTGs to Subic Bay International Terminal Corporation (SBITC). The orders have been booked into the first quarter of 2015.  Read More »

The North Carolina State Ports Authority posted a 20 percent container volume increase in the third quarter of its fiscal year over the same period from last year. A significant increase was seen specifically in the month of March (34 percent increase year-over-year). Read More »

The arrival of the 655-foot bulk carrier M/V Irma at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor signals the official opening of the international shipping season. Port officials welcomed 2015's first ocean vessel on Monday with a ceremony presenting the Ports of Indiana "Steel Stein" to the ship's captain. Read More »