North America

Florida’s Port Tampa Bay will be allocated federal funds of USD$9m towards a $55m project to widen and deepen its Big Bend Channel, in southern Hillsborough County.

US President Donald Trump has sent Congress a 2018 budget request which, says the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), signals the decline for most federally funded, port-related programmes.

The House and Senate leadership has released the FY 2017 Omnibus Funding Agreement, which includes increased or level funding for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery…

A Port of Oakland executive says that newly formed ocean carrier alliances will benefit his port bringing larger vessels and more container moves per vessel increasing the efficiency of operations.

The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) and the US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), together with a host of industry experts, have completed their Port Planning and Investment Toolkit (PPIT)…

US federal approval has been given to an innovative agreement that allows the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) and the Virginia Port Authority (VPA) to information share to help position themselves as the…

President Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget could see significant declines for most federally funded port-related programmes.

The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) graded America’s marine port infrastructure a C+ in the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card.

US President Donald Trump’s anti-globalisation sentiments are “just a phase” and “will go away”, the chairman of DP World has told CNBC.

With an increasing number of mergers, changing alliances and bankruptcies in 2016, and now uncertain trade policies afoot, Port of Long Beach’s (POLB) interim chief executive Duane Kenagy said it is clear…

The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) is said to be encouraged by the recent release of the infrastructure investment outline by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Democrats.

President and chief executive of South Carolina Ports Authority Jim Newsome has said that even in the competitive world of cargo shipping, there’s room for co-operation.

Ports America has signed an agreement with an Australian investment firm to develop and manage Novaporte, the planned new mega container terminal at the Port of Sydney in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Barry Parker discusses life after the expanded Panama Canal for ports on the US East Coast

The Port of Montréal has celebrated the opening of a new container terminal in the Viau sector.