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MOL said Thursday it will apply a peak-season surcharge on bills of lading for all shipments from Europe and the Mediterranean to Asia.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will charge a container fee for export equipment picked up at some Midwest depots as well as other locations in the United States effective Nov. 1.

The organizations representing ship managers and ship suppliers called upon ship owners to discuss cash flow problems openly as the global slowdown has made many slow to pay.

Shipping lines operating in the Pacific plan to increase freight rates to the U.S.

Berlian Laju Tanker, Indonesia's biggest shipping line, will become the world's leading operator of chemical tankers if its planned $174 million takeover of Norway's Camillo Eitzen [CECO] goes through

Australia’s Babcock & Brown Infrastructure is set to sell its UK ports business and a 50 percent stake in one of the world’s biggest coal shipping terminals as part of a $1.5 billion r

Having already lost about four percent of their market share of Asian cargo to Canadian and East Coast ports the past few years, and hoping to avoid a further diversion of cargo when the Panama Canal

Container shipping needs “transformation” that goes beyond the changes carriers are undertaking to survive and likely will include consolidation, a Maersk executive told The Journal of Commerce’s East

Ocean carrier OOCL will increase its rates on all dry and refrigerated cargo from Hong Kong, Macau and South China to New Zealand, effective Nov. 1.

Momentum Logistics, a subsidiary of international port management company, Gulftainer, signed a contract to provide dedicated warehouse space and other logistics services to United Arab Shipping Compa

Chicken’s popularity among global consumers is proving largely recession-resistant, propping up poultry exporters and the Gulf ports and terminals they use.

The U.S. Gulf’s proximity to Central America has long kept the region’s ports busy with imports of perishable melons, cantaloupes, bananas and other fruits and vegetables.

Charter ship owners that basked in a bull market for their ships in the boom years of tight capacity are being battered by the recession.

James McKenna, president of the Pacific Maritime Association, and Robert McEllrath, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, are co-recipients of the 2009 Connie Award presented b

The Panama Canal Authority said Thursday it will extend the discount program introduced in June to provide short-term cost reductions and greater flexibility to its reservation system through the end

Rickmers-Linie is expanding its co-operation with Japan's Eastern Car Liner on the trans-Pacific trades with the launch of a new eastbound service.

International Longshoremen's Association delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday for a two-year extension of the union contract covering 18,500 Atlantic and Gulf dockworkers.

MOL received government approval to establish a new joint terminal operating company in Vietnam.

Ship leasing company Danaos took delivery of its 42nd containership, the CMA CGM Moliere with a capacity of 6,500 20-foot equivalent units, adding new capacity even as ocean carriers around the w

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure, the financially troubled parent of pan-European bulk/break bulk stevedore Euroports, rejected a refinancing proposal from a group of international hedge funds.

The fleet of idled container ships controlled by charter ship-owners reached a record high in September and exceeds the number of unemployed vessels controlled and operated by ocean carriers for the f

Maersk Line is making some major changes in its trans-Atlantic services.

Kuehne + Nagel, one of the world's largest sea freight logistics providers, committed to using INTTRA eInvoice.

The European Liner Affairs Association, a trade association consisting of most of the world’s major container lines, welcomed a decision by the European Commission to extend the antitrust immuni

After a day-long effort, the lower Mississippi River channel was partially restored to commerce Monday afternoon.

Jan De Nul n.v. won the contract to dredge the Panama Canal’s Atlantic entrance as part of the canal’s expansion program.

Container shipping consortia will be exempt from European Union competition rules for five years past the current deadline, the European Commission said Sept. 28.

When the United States imposed Section 421 safeguard duties of up to 35 percent on tire imports from China this month, much of the trade world reacted like fight fans eager for an all-out brawl.

For the first time in decades, the share of total U.S.

Ocean carriers started this year with excess capacity while retailers were carrying far too much inventory, making for a nightmare scenario as the global recession plumbed new depths.

Dave Akers is still arranging for a lot of toy imports this peak season, even if volumes are down from last year.

West Coast ports will lose ground in the U.S.

Dockers at the Port of Piraeus in Greece plan to hold two 48 hour strikes in early October to protest the takeover by China’s Cosco Pacific of container operations at Greece’s biggest port

The Rotterdam Rules now have 16 signatory nations, with more expected in the near future.

Zim, the beleaguered Israeli ocean carrier, reached an understanding with a Korean shipyard to delay the delivery of four 10,000-TEU container ships by up to five years, in a major boost to its restru

TBS International took delivery of the Rockaway Belle, the first in a series of six "Roymar Class" vessels.

A long-planned project to turn two brownfield sites on the Delaware River into a breakbulk, project cargo and bulk port is now underway at Paulsboro, N.J.

Multi-purpose heavy lift carrier BBC Chartering USA’s Andino Express Line will begin a monthly sailing from the Port of West Palm Beach to Northern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile beginning in

Zim Integrated Shipping Services unilaterally decided to cut all of its long-term charter hire payments to ship owners by 35 percent for three years starting Sept.

Evergreen Lines said it will apply its general rate restoration program to eastbound shipments starting Oct.