The Port of Los Angeles, already the busiest U.S. import gateway, plans to build a new terminal to accommodate the world’s biggest container ships. The Pier 500 project would comprise two berths and 3 ...

Apr. 25—Like many of his neighbors near the Seattle waterfront, Alex Smith keeps a close eye on the big container ships crossing Elliott Bay to and from the terminals at the port of Seattle. So when ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 2 (March–April 1970), pages 16–22.] A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER of big, ...

When the OOCL Iris pulled into the Port of Charleston last week, it had a couple of distinctions. Not only was it the largest container ship to visit the local waterfront, with the capacity to carry ...

Container ships are an astonishing feat of human innovation and engineering. Their size, weight, and capability to carry gargantuan loads of cargo across large expanses of the ocean have ...

Egypt's Suez Canal offers 15% discount for big container ships to win back trade Egypt's Suez Canal will offer a 15% discount on transit fees for container ships with net tonnage of at least 130 000 ...