Ports

The CMA CGM has completed the sale of a 90% equity interest in Global Gateway South terminal (GSS) at the port of Los Angeles, California. The sale was

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – In the clearest sign yet that the lingering effects of the 2009 global financial crisis on the shipping industry

The Port of Long Beach has commissioned into service the second of two new fireboats that now rank among some of the most powerful fireboats in the world.

An Indonesian port worker was killed on the job overnight after being crushed by a container at the International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI)

by Karl Plume (Reuters) – The lower Ohio River was closed to navigation on Tuesday at locks and dam 52 in Paducah, Kentucky, due to rising

by Ahmed Rasheed (Reuters) Iraq has increased oil export capacity from its southern ports by 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 4.6 million bpd after adding a

By Yimou Lee and Thu Thu Aung YANGON, Oct 17 (Reuters) – China has agreed take a 70 percent stake in a strategically important sea port in Myanmar,

By Ryan Collins (Bloomberg) The developer of a liquefied natural gas export terminal in Oregon that has already twice been denied permits by U.S. regulators is

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s port expects a slight rise in container shipping volumes this year despite continuing

HAMAD PORT, Qatar, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Qatar inaugurated a new $7.4 billion port along its Gulf coast on Tuesday that officials said would become a

By Josephine Mason and Meng Meng BEIJING, Aug 30 (Reuters) – China’s war on smog is shaking up the country’s busiest ports, which handle

JAKARTA, Aug 4 (Reuters) – More than 600 workers at Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok port have gone on strike and could extend the action until Aug. 10,

by Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez (Reuters) – Sri Lanka signed a long delayed $1.1 billion deal on Saturday to lease its southern Hambantota port to

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Shippers say they feel powerless over the barge congestion crisis in northern Europe – one believing there may

By Emma Farge (Reuters) Chinese and French companies are bidding to help Gambia build up its Atlantic port Banjul to be what industry sources say could be a

By Eveline Danubrata and Cindy Silviana JAKARTA, June 23 (Reuters) – With its towering new cranes and wharves that can handle some of the world’s

LONDON, June 22 (Fitch) Traffic growth in the ports sector is likely to remain well below historical levels for the foreseeable future, due to fundamental

New vessel-sharing alliances and increased use of terminals pushed the number of containers flowing through the Port of Long Beach in May to a record high for

ATHENS, June 12 (Reuters) – Piraeus Port, operator of Greece’s biggest port and majority-owned by China’s COSCO Shipping, has agreed to team

MADRID, June 5 (Reuters) – Some of Spain’s biggest port terminals came to a standstill on Monday as shipping companies redirected cargos to avoid a