Maritime

The Port of Los Angeles attributes a decline in exports to the strong dollar and weak overseas demand.

The container transportation contract will be managed through Crowley’s Carib Energy subsidiary.

Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred P. Hochberg is visiting India this week to promote American-made exports.

Norfolk Southern has acquired a 282.55-mile section of track between Sunbury, Pa. and Schenectady, N.Y., from the Delaware & Hudson Railway Co.

Liner carriers in the transpacific say they will begin to impose a $1,000-per-FEU surcharge on Monday.

Drivers said they are striking QTS, LACA Express, and WinWin Logistics Monday and will add other drayage companies,

Drivers, Teamsters and TTSI to talk in meeting brokered by Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti.

Carriers are set to charge $1,000 per FEU, also poised to start charging on intermodal door deliveries this week.

The congressmen urge a labor settlement between the ILWU and the PMA, while shippers start petition to the White House.

The two countries today reached an agreement that paves the way for full implementation of the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement.

Next year will be challenging, but the ocean carrier said Q3 operating earnings are a ‘first step in right direction.’

Port truck drivers picket in Los Angeles and Long Beach; ILWU says its members dismissed at Oakland Terminal.

Scott B. Miserendino, Sr., and Timothy S. Miller were sentenced to 96 months and 24 months in prison, respectively.

Matson will expand into Alaska while Pasha will acquire Horizon’s Hawaii business.

Maersk Line saw quarterly gains, helped by lower costs and higher rates; it plans to start up 2M iwith MSC in January.

The partners of the Clean Products Tanker Alliance include MOL, Asahi Tanker Co., Ultranav International and OSG International.

Though they have not yet imposed them, most carriers have prefiled congestion surcharges with the Federal Maritime Commission.

Driver tell LA Harbor commissioners that they are unhappy with lack of progress since July protests.

Carrier moved more containers to and from Hawaii, but auto volume and volumes from China fell.

The liner carrier said the reefer units will enhance its transport service offerings in South America.