North America

The Port of Seattle and City of Seattle have agreed to a collaboration which aims to help shippers and truckers in the industrial core.

The South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) in Sunset Park, New York, is being brought back as a working maritime port facility to help establish Southwest Brooklyn as a maritime hub.

US west coast ports need to stop looking at the capacity and labour crisis as individual port issues and come together collaboratively to resolve the issue, says financial expert, Fitch Ratings.

Barbados Port has signed up with the RightShip and Carbon War Room greenhouse gas rating programme, which rewards vessels with better energy efficient ratings.

The Port of Long Beach (POLB) has been battling congestion for the past few weeks, and things don’t seem to be improving with container ships waiting at anchor for a berth.

APM Terminals is selling its state-of-the-art container terminal located in Portsmouth, Virginia, US, because it doesn’t want to remain a non-operating lessor of the facility to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the…

Gulftainer is growing in line with its vision to expand to 35 terminals in five continents by 2020 with a 35-year concession at Port Canaveral in Florida, USA.

California’s Port of Stockton has taken the plunge and will be deploying a Tideworks Technology terminal operating system (TOS) to manage its container on barge operation and improve overall efficiency.

Ports shift their attention away from their core business, says Martin Rushmere

The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) board has approved project funding of US$2m to increase capacity, efficiency and flexibility of heavy equipment at the Port of Savannah to handle the increase in ro-ro…

Gulf Coast ports look to their traditional strengths, says Martin Rushmere

The Port of Virginia has closed the tender period for alternative proposals to operate the authority’s state owned and leased container terminals this week following an unsolicited proposal from APM Terminals back…

The Port of Baltimore is gearing up for super post-panamax with the arrival of four supersized container cranes this week – a move that will see the port being able to handle…

APM Terminals has submitted an unsolicited proposal to Virginia Port Authority to operate the authoritys state owned and leased terminals for the next 48 years in a deal that could net VPA…