Ports

U.S. retailers could be forced within days to find alternative ways to import goods unless the threat of a strike by domestic dockworkers at ports stretching

The Port of Miami on Friday announced that it has struck a deal with the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers that allows for a massive dredging project to go

The Saudi Port Authority has recently taken delivery of three Robert Allan designed RAmparts 3200-W tugs. The tugs, named Rasalkir 1, Rasalkir 2 and Rasalkir

Contract negotiations between dockworkers and employers at U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports have turned frosty, raising the specter of labor unrest during the

One of Foss Maritime’s hybrid tugs suffered a fire in her machinery space on Monday after having just completed a ship assist job in the Port of Long

(Bloomberg) — Growth in Hamburg is stalling as Europe’s fiscal crisis spreads into China and other Asian countries, threatening the recovery of

HONG KONG–Container shipper Orient Overseas (International) Ltd. (0316.HK) said Thursday it signed contracts to buy US$347 million worth of equipment

Seattle and the Puget Sound area has a long maritime and naval history, and it’s no surprise that it’s one of our top-visited cities to gCaptain.

(Bloomberg) — Russia is taking legal action to block companies controlled by Iran from acquiring the strategic Astrakhan port on the Caspian Sea in

(Bloomberg) — China National Offshore Oil Corp. won government approval to build another liquefied natural gas terminal in southern China’s

The Port of Seattle’s Terminal 18, run by SSA Terminals, will have three more Super Post Panamax cranes, allowing it to handle the largest container

– By Rojda Akdag, Managing Director, MTS Logistics Labor stoppage, which is also known as a strike, is the problem aroused by the tension between a

WARSAW–The construction of Poland’s liquefied natural gas terminal on the Baltic Coast is four months behind schedule, a critical delay that may

Only 3 years after completion of phase 2 of the Sabine Pass LNG import terminal in Louisiana, Cheniere Energy Partners (NYSE Amex: CQP) announced today that

MOSCOW–Russia’s sea ports handled a total of 271.3 million metric tons of cargo in January-June, 5.4% more than in January-June 2011, according to

Independent Australian grain-handling company, Newcastle Agri Terminal, has signed a contract for a new flexibly-designed Siwertell ship loading system from

At the Überseebrücke pier, the Port of Hamburg has for the first time been able to welcome an LNG-fuelled ship. The KV BARENTSHAV belongs to the

(Dow Jones) COPENHAGEN–The port-operating arm of Danish shipping and oil company A.P. Moller Maersk A/S (MAERSK-B.KO) Friday signed an agreement with

Rotterdam, The Netherlands – APM Terminals Maasvlakte II has selected Cargotec as the quay crane supplier for the company’s future Maasvlakte II

SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)–An unusual strike by manual laborers at Brazil’s biggest port, in Santos, partially ended Thursday because of a court order,