NOL Profits Up in 2nd Quarter
An 11% revenue increase in the second quarter helped NOL post a net profit increase in the quarter, but revenues for the first half were up only 5% and...
Ports to Break Cargo Records as Peak Season Starts
While October is usually the busiest month of the year at the nations major retail container ports, when final figures are in, this Augusts volumes are...
A Port Strike Averted
Although the clerks, represented by a unit of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) number about 750 at the ports, there was indication...
New Records for Savannah
With 2,338 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) handled in the last fiscal year, Savannah surpassed its prior-year performance by 14.5%. The higher...
Oakland Announces Truck Tracking System
The Port of Oakland, Bay Area World Trade Center (BAWTC), and private partners (International Asset Systems, Sprint Nextel, Walsh Wireless, and Xora)...
Bids to Begin to Build A Port
Ernesto Ruffo Appel says he always knew there would be an opportunity to build a new port in Baja California. Now he is promoting the construction, from...
Container Traffic Grows Through the Panama Canal
The Canal's second quarter offers figures for January through March 2007. The waterway's tonnage metrics use the Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System...
APL Tests Green Technology
With financial support from the Port of Oakland, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), APL will begin using...
While Air Cargo Grows, Ocean Grows Faster
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported freight demand grew 2.6% in the first four months of 2007, helped by route expansions and...
Chinese and US Ports Launch RFID Network
The Shanghai-Savannah Express Trade Lane Project represents a partnership of Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG), Georgia Ports Authority and Savi...
Retail Container Traffic Will Be a Record-Breaker in August
The National Retail Federation (NRF) and Global Insight monthly Port Tracker report forecasts container traffic at 1.53 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent...
Combating Congestion: Who Pays the Bill?
The U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Mary E. Peters, in National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on American's Transportation Network writes, "congestion...
Navigation Projects Endorsed
The House of Representatives version of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 was passed on April 19th by a vote of 394-25. When the Senate passed...
On-Time Container Ship Arrivals Below 50%
Compared to the first two months of 2006, the latest quarter measured by Drewry Shipping Consultants indicates an 11% drop in on-time arrivals. Liner...
Rail and Boats Join to Move Cargo to Puerto Rico Door-to-Door
Pacer will move the freight over its double-stack rail network and will turn the 53-foot containers over to Trailer Bridge at Jacksonville. The marine...
Port Authorities Urge Standards on Emissions
Linda Strout, deputy chief executive officer of the Port of Seattle, testified before the US Congress on the accomplishments of the US port industry related...
Ports Handle Major Shipments
When 96 flatcars rolled into the Dundalk Marine Terminal with a cargo of 89 carloads of John Deere combines, and seven flatcars of Case combines, the...
DHS Awards $202.3 Million in Port Security Grants
The Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) will provide the funding to 183 public and private entities to create sustainable, risk-based efforts to protect...
Liz Claiborne to Use GT Nexus to Manage Global Supply Chain
Liz Claiborne Inc. (New York) signed a multi-year contract for an on-demand import operations platform from GT Nexus (Alameda, Calif.) The hosted service...
It's Going to Cost More to Ship Through the Panama Canal
Refrigerated cargo and passenger vessels will have rate increases take place on October 1 while container ships will be subject to the May 1 increase....
APL Expands India Service
Weekly express service originating in Colombo, Sri Lanka was scheduled to make its first call in Savannah on May 11, the fourth U.S. port of call for...
Transpacific Demand Drives Expansion
Growth in the transpacific has consistently exceeded industry expectations, said Ron Widdows, CEO of APL, the container transportation arm of Neptune...
Long Beach is Building a Security Hub
Designed to be a regional resource, the building will include emergency management facilities that include a Department Operations Center to be used to...
Support Needed for Short Sea Shipping
The continued rise in import container volumes will place tremendous pressure on an already strained transportation infrastructure, said Raymond. It is...
Rotterdam Terminal In Final Building Stages
The Delta Barge Feeder Terminal (DBF) at the Port of Rotterdam is specially designed to handle inland vessels and feeder vessels. The 800-meter (2,625-foot)...
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