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Total U.S. imports of steel declined 13.8 percent to 854,000 tons in August compared with 991,000 tons in July, based on preliminary reporting.

Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line on Sept. 22 announced another in a series of “rate restorations.”

Eivind Kolding, the CEO of Maersk Line, will deliver the keynote speech at The Journal of Commerce’s 2010 Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference in Long Beach on March 1, the JoC Conferences Division

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure, the heavily indebted parent of leading bulk/break-bulk stevedore Euroports, is weighing two rival rescue offers.

Global crude steel production reached 106.5 million metric tons in August, 5.5 percent lower than August of 2008, according to the Brussels-based World Steel Association.

OOCL took the container liner industry's "rate restoration" drive to China-Australia trade lanes, announcing increases on shipments from Hong Kong, Macau and South China to Australia.

Jade Weser Port started the tender process for companies seeking to establish operations at Germany's only non-tidal deep water container port.

A senior Wal-Mart executive said Monday a drive to cut packaging on toys saved the retailer some $3.5 million in transportation costs last Christmas, a major gain to the bottom line the company won fr

Container throughput at the port of Marseilles/Fos in the first eight months of the year through August increased by 4 percent to 583,779 20-foot containers from the same period last year, the French

Evergreen Line said it has filed rate increases with the Federal Maritime Commission on all shipments moving from Puerto Rico to Europe, whether moving from or via the U.S.

They can wish, can’t they? Many container line executives would love to wave a magic wand and — poof!

Project cargo is mushrooming at the Port of Mobile, the majority of it bound for the stainless and carbon steel mill ThyssenKrupp is building a few miles north.

The container lines have the Box Club, where their CEOs can meet to discuss matters of common concern.

In a windy cornfield of north-central Iowa, the nation’s largest wind tower staging facility is about to get a lot bigger, building on what has been a fast-growing busine

Container lines can’t wait for this year’s fourth quarter. Even if an economic recovery isn’t under way by then, carriers will at least have more favorable year-to-year comparisons on trade volumes.

In virtually any other year, a weeklong shutdown of Chinese factories at the height of the peak shipping season would put U.S. importers in panic mode.

China Ocean Shipping Co. announced a peak season surcharge of $400 per 40-foot container and $320 per 20-foot container on all cargo moving from the Far East and Indian subcontinent to the U.S.

Officials of the Obama administration’s Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force released their interim report for a 30-day public review and comment period.

Citi's Global Transaction Services, a business unit of the global financial services company, and GT Nexus, the global trade and logistics portal, announced a strategic partnership that will deliver e

Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is now expected to drop to a total 12.5 million 20-foot containers for all of 2009, according to the monthly Port Tracker report releas

Doug J. Marchand, the long-time executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority, announced at Thursday’s State of the Port Address that he will step down Jan. 1, 2010.

CMA CGM expanded its “rate restoration” program Thursday, announcing new price increases on shipping between Europe and India and Pakistan.

Cargo volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in August increased over the previous month as the nation's two largest ports prepared for what is expected to be a short peak shipping season.

UAL-SA, the South African subsidiary of Universal Africa Line, will carry 65,000 metric tons of bagged cement from Cape Town to Soyo, Angola for the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant, the

The government of Western Australia approved Chevron’s Australian subsidiary to develop Gorgon, a gigantic offshore natural gas project.

The average spot rate jumped 10.3 percent this week for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants weekly survey of spot market prices paid by

Distribution centers and manufacturing plants in the Ohio Valley will soon have two new intermodal options for moving their cargo to and from Asia.

Marad says the time has come to separate the liners from the bulkers.

The growth in the world container ship fleet will slow this year to the lowest rate this decade as ocean carriers defer deliveries of new vessels and boost scrapping of older tonnage to record levels.

The year long decline in Asia-Europe container traffic has slowed significantly, in a major boost for carriers attempting to push through higher ocean freight rates on the world's biggest liner trade.

MISC Berhad will upgrade its Halal Express Service linking the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East, effective later this month.

As container volume fell through August, average revenue plummeted even further for Neptune Orient Lines.