The hulking, modern cargo port unveiled here over the weekend with song and dance honoring Djibouti’s Somali and Afar heritage looks out of place in such a hardscrabble landscape.

Port operator DP World said Monday it is cutting costs and hoarding cash to cope with a slowdown that is worsening as the global economic slump grows more dire.

Mr. John. Don’s Johns. Johnny Blue. Johnny on the Spot.

Mexico’s Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez says the construction of a huge new Pacific seaport in Baja California could be postponed because of the world economic slowdown. The port could compete with Long Beach and Los Angeles if built.

Jamaica is suspending plans for a multimillion-dollar expansion of a popular tourist port in Kingston because no one wants to finance it.

A trade group representing truckers filed a lawsuit claiming plans to clean up the air around the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach place unfair restrictions on their members.

The union representing thousands of West Coast dockworkers reached a tentative contract deal with shippers Monday that promises to keep ports running and avoid another blow to the U.S. economy.

West Coast shippers say they have reached a tentative agreement with dockworkers on health care benefits, although contract talks continue.Neither the Pacific Maritime Association nor the International Longshore and Warehouse Union gave specifics Tuesday.

A 2012 deadline to screen all U.S.-bound shipping cargo for radiological and nuclear materials is unrealistic, a Bush administration official told lawmakers Thursday.A law passed last summer mandates that the Homeland Security Department screen all cargo.

A Department of Homeland Security program to strengthen port security has gaps that terrorists could exploit to smuggle weapons of mass destruction in cargo containers, congressional investigators have found.The report by the Government Accountability...