Port News.

On a gray March afternoon at the Port of Los Angeles, the largest in the U.S., powerful electric top-handlers whir, beep and grind as they motor back and forth, grabbing trailers from truck beds and stacking them as they move on or off the mighty container ships that ferry goods across the Pacific. Some of ... […]

Groups from five African countries filed fraud and corruption complaints Wednesday accusing French billionaire Vincent Bollore and one of his sons of illegally obtaining and benefitting from port concessions. Bollore Group’s African ports and logistics business, which the tycoon sold off in 2022, employed more than 20,000 people in 20 African countries, running 16 ports ... […]

DP World and India’s Reliance Industries have teamed up to launch an innovative logistics solution for the petrochemicals industry, shifting product transport from road to rail, significantly cutting carbon emissions while enhancing operational efficiency. The new solution connects Reliance Industries’ Jamnagar plant in Gujarat to DP World’s inland container depot (ICD) in Ahmedabad and onward ... […]

U.S. coal inventories to swell and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad. Trump is drafting an executive order that would rely on funding from a U.S. Trade Representative proposal to levy fines of up to $1.5 million on China-made ships or vessels from fleets ... […]

The Drewry Container Port Throughput Indices are a series of calendar adjusted volume growth/decline indices based on monthly throughput data for a sample of over 340 ports worldwide, representing over 80% of global volumes. The base point for the indices is January 2019 = 100. Drewry has developed a nowcasting model that uses vessel capacity ... […]

ITS Logistics yesterday released the March forecast for the ITS Logistics US Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index. This month, the index reveals that Los Angeles/Long Beach (LA/LB) import volumes remain strong following the Lunar New Year, and there are signs that the trucking capacity-to-demand ratio may soon start pushing rates up for dray and rail capacity. ... […]

CK Hutchison , a Hong Kong-based conglomerate, agreed to sell much of its global $22.8 billion ports business that includes assets near the strategically important Panama Canal to a group led by BlackRock this month. The canal’s strategic value in global trade and U.S. President Donald Trump’s call to end what he describes as Chinese ... […]

Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino said on Thursday that he didn’t place any value on reports the U.S. military is looking into options for ensuring full U.S. access to the Panama Canal, since these reports came from unnamed sources. “If no one puts their name to such an assertion, I don’t ascribe any value to ... […]

Terminal closed again 21 Mar 2025, Buckeye Bahamas Hub, Bahamas Buckeye Bahamas Hub has again been closed from 00:48 hours local time today (21 March). READ MORE City largely unaffected by State of Emergency 21 Mar 2025, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Offshore operations and movements around most of the city of Port Harcourt are unaffected by ... […]

Construction work to expand London Gateway and establish the facility as the UK’s largest container port will begin in May after DP World was given approval for the £1bn project. The global logistics giant said it would take just four years to complete the expansion, adding two further 400m-long all-electric berths and a second rail ... […]