America's ports have long struggled with dirty air that chokes nearby neighborhoods and jeopardizes the health of people living there.

Plastic nurdles may have spilt from damaged containers on a stricken ship involved in last week’s North Sea collision and started to wash up on English beaches, the owner Ernst Russ said on Tuesday.

American Trucking Associations economist Bob Costello foresees negative impacts on freight markets from new port fees on Chinese ships calling at U.S. ports.