Ports

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

South Carolina Ports’ project to deepen Charleston Harbor to 52 feet has received the funding needed to begin construction as planned this fall, the port

NAIROBI, May 24 (Reuters) – Djibouti has formally opened one of four new ports designed to cement the tiny Horn of Africa nation’s position as a

By Niclas Rolander and Hanna Hoikkala (Bloomberg) — As a drawn-out labor conflict at the Nordic region’s largest port escalates, some of Sweden’s

By Yimou Lee and Shwe Yee Saw Myint, May 5 (Reuters) – China is looking to take a stake of up to 85 percent in a strategically important sea

SHANGHAI, April 21 (Reuters) – The world’s busiest container port, Yangshan in China’s business hub of Shanghai, is battling severe

SHANGHAI, March 29 (Reuters) – China and Hong Kong stocks rose on Wednesday as further signs of a pick-up in global trade boosted shares of port

by William Maclean (Reuters) A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen called on Sunday for the United Nations to place a strategic port under its supervision

When Michael von Harten started loading cars onto ships in the German port of Bremerhaven 27 years ago, the facility handled some 700,000 vehicles a year. That

By Gavin van Marle in Long Beach (The Loadstar) – The entire shipping industry – carriers and their customers and suppliers – need to come together

International classification society DNV GL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore to promote R&D and

LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – A unit of Swiss shipping group MSC has bought a stake in U.S. ports operator Total Terminals International (TTI) from Hanjin,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Port and terminal consolidation is the “only long-term answer” to mitigate the impact of fewer calls of ultra large

By Jim Christie SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Bankrupt South Korean shipping line Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd won U.S. court approval at a hearing on