Ports

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

By Keith Wallis and Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, Jan 13 (Reuters) – A huge traffic jam of hundreds of ships carrying coal and iron ore into China has

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Singapore’s terminal operator PSA today reported that it handled 67.63m teu across both its international network

By Natalie Obiko Pearson and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — The tightening of emissions limits for deep-water ships has some of North America’s

The port of Antwerp says it expects to close 2016 a record volume of more than 214 million tonnes of freight handled helped by growing contain volume and