Container lines

Carriers in the eastbound trans-Pacific trade plan to increase freight rates significantly on imports from Asia in 2013.

Leading ocean carriers are still chasing growth despite weaker markets and difficulties in securing funding for new orders, according to container industry analyst Alphaliner.

Maersk Line plans to cut its deployed capacity by implementing another round of slow-steaming in the Asia-Europe trade.

Vision Industries and Balqon have entered into a joint development agreement

China International Marine Container, the world’s largest container manufacturer, is venturing into the ship-owning business after finalizing a $330 million order for four container ships at STX

OOCL has launched a new intra-Europe service linking Germany and Russia.

Japanese shipowner NYK Line has acquired a 51 percent controlling stake in the logistics operations of Russia’s Rolf Group, which will retain 49 percent of the new joint venture.

Retailers say they welcome the agreement by the International Longshormen’s Associaiton and United States Maritime Alliance.

Maersk Line plans to launch a container service, called the ME4, linking India, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, effective in November.

“K’ Line will end its recommendation to employees that they forgo

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is adding a port call at Haifa in Israel on both legs of its Golden Gate Service between Asia and the U.S. East Coast via the Suez Canal.

East Coast ports look forward with great anticipation to the completion of the Panama Canal expansion project in 2015, while West Coast ports are apprehensive about a possible loss of cargo.

Shipyards in 2013 will deliver more new container vessels than during any year in the history of the industry, but the arrival of these large, fuel-efficient ships will be a mixed blessing for contain

Ocean carriers say plans to impose congestion surcharges if there’s an International Longshoremen’s Association work stoppage are precautionary steps and that the charges could be adjusted

"K” Line has stopped its executives from traveling to China as a precautionary measure as

Cargotec, the Finnish cargo handling equipment manufacturer, today unveiled plans to list its marine unit on an Asian stock exchange by the second half of 2013 at the latest.

Hamburg Sud will stop providing chassis as part of its service to the ports of Portland, Seattle and Tacoma on Nov. 1.

Singapore-based ocean carrier APL said it is struggling to move containers to and from the Port of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, because of terminal congestion and yard delays.

The ocean container industry is holding its collective breath as carriers attempt to pull off the seemingly impossible feat of raising freight rates in a sputtering global economy that’s slowing

Mediterranean Shipping Co. came within 105,716 20-foot-equivalent units in imports from becoming the top carrier in all three segments of U.S. trade: imports, exports and total trade.

Hapag-Lloyd will impose a general rate increase on all cargoes from East Asia to Mexico, Central America a

CSAV said it and some of its employees have received subpoenas from U.S.

OOCL has launched a new intra-Asia service linking Taiwan and China to Japan.

Hapag-Lloyd will upgrade its Mediterranean-Canada Service with an additional eastbound call at Lisbon, Portugal, starting in October.

OOCL plans to raise rates on the eastbound trade from North Europe to Asia at the beginning of October.

Delmas is suspending bookings of cargo to the Democr

CMA CGM has launched a feeder service linking Bilbao to Le Havre, the Spanish port said this w

Singapore-based Bengal Tiger Line will launch an intra-Asia service in mid-September from India’s Port of Krishnapatnam, a new privately owned cargo hub on the east coast.

The damaged container ship MSC Flaminia docked in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, seven weeks after an explosion and fire killed two crewmembers and forced the ship’s abandonment in the mid-Atlantic.

The Maritime Administration said its recently announced study of the effects of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990’s requirement for double-hull ships “is being

Hapag-Lloyd has announced a temporary suspension of its calls at Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica, as part of its

CMA CGM rebounded to a $178 million net profit in the second quarter from a $248 million net loss in the opening three months of the year driven by a “substantial “ upturn in freight rates

Efforts were under way Monday to extinguish a fire that continued to burn aboard an Antigua and Barbuda-flag container ship off Mumbai harbor, Indian maritime agencies said.

Trans-Pacific volumes are performing well but the outlook for Asia-Europe is at best “challenging,” according to one leading shipping executive.

CMA CGM will upgrade its fixed-day weekly service between the east coast of South America and the Caribbean, introducing the Brazilian ports of Manaus and Salvador de Bahia to the rotation.

The Grand Alliance and Zim Integrated Container Services plan to merge two of their joint trans-Pacific services to the U.S.

The threat of labor disruptions on the East Coast is fueling a disparity in the direction of spot freight rates for shipments from China to ports on the U.S. West and East Coasts.

Shippers are warning ocean carriers to avoid the temptation of profiteering from any U.S. port shutdown by rolling cargo or implementing unjustifiable surcharges.

Global maritime and logistics company Rickmers Group named Robert Sappio, a former longtime executive at APL, president and CEO of Rickmers America as pre