Ports America, the closely held maritime terminal operator, is exploring a sale, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a new 10-member advisory committee to help the Port of Los Angeles reduce carbon emissions and produce a guide for sustainable growth.

Coal exports from the port in Hampton Roads continued to tank in the first six months of 2016, following a portwide, year-over-year drop of about 35% in 2015.

Before the Providence port can expand, voters would need to endorse Rhode Island's vision in November by approving the $20 million purchase of up to 25 acres of property to expand the city’s port.

Low oil prices slowed the volume of general cargo the Port of Houston Authority handled in the first five months of the year, commissioners said June 28.Yet, signaling long-term confidence, the Port Commission also awarded a contract for up to $34.4 million to buy three cranes for its Bayport Container Terminal.

Two years after a celebrated homecoming, Chiquita Brands International is considering moving its cargo business elsewhere. This left Port of New Orleans, Louisiana, officials scrambling May 11 to try to keep the company from again leaving the city that was once the country’s top banana importer.

The Port of Los Angeles reported a 1% drop year-over-year in volume that included a 4.7% rise in imports.

A new report is projecting that import shipments in the first half of the year grew 1.4% on the strength of a February surge in containerized cargo shipments.

The idea of Port Freeport — 60 miles due south of downtown Houston on a marshy stretch of Texas Gulf Coast — as a titan of foreign trade might sound bananas.

Early morning on April 19, the massive Maersk Edmonton moored at the nation's biggest cargo terminal, in the Port of Los Angeles. At 8 a.m., around 200 workers, operating nine cranes, swarmed the 1,200-foot-long containership.