U.S. lawmakers continue to talk about the threat of Chinese technology, including U.S. reliance on Chinese-manufactured cranes at port terminals like those in Hampton Roads. In late February, the ...

Several U.S. farm groups say tariffs on China-built cargo-handing equipment would hurt U.S. agriculture, highlighting the challenge of curbing China’s dominance in maritime trade. The Trump ...

President Biden wants American ports to stop buying Chinese ship-to-shore cranes and to start buying American ones. There’s just one problem: No one in the United States makes the giant cargo-handling ...

Port of Savannah received four new electric ship-to-shore cranes on January 25, 2025, bringing Ocean Terminal’s fleet to eight Super Post Panamax cranes, all designed by Finland-based Konecranes. Once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. ports and terminal operators are now pushing back on the 25-percent tariff the Biden administration proposed on ship-to-shore ...

Chinese cranes that load and unload containers from ships are the latest target of the Trump administration’s attempt to boost domestic manufacturing, even as no US industry for the equipment exists.

Proposed tariffs on Chinese-made ship-to-shore cranes would hurt consumers and cost the S.C. State Ports Authority an additional $6 million a year, according to a letter from the agency's top ...

A version of this story appeared in the daily Threat Status newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Threat Status delivered directly to your inbox each weekday. The Coast Guard has ...

Federal officials are pointing to human error as the probable cause of an 2024 accident along the Cooper River that took out a ship-to-shore crane at one of the Port ...

On April 17, 2025, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a final notice of action for its Section 301 investigation on "China's Targeting the Maritime, Logistics, and ...

Chinese cranes that load and unload containers from ships are the latest target of the Trump administration’s attempt to boost domestic manufacturing, even as no U.S. industry for the equipment exists ...