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Long Beach’s chief engineer sees deepening the harbor to accommodate the world’s largest vessels, building large container terminals, expanding on-dock rail connectivity and establishing g

India plans to set up a state-owned company capitalized at $557 million to invest in overseas ports and terminals to help boost international trade.

German charter shipowner Peter Dohle ordered eight container ships of 10,000 20-foot equivalent units capacity each with China’s Yangzijian Shipbuilding.

Canada States Africa Line, a newly launched multipurpose line, is adding Charleston to the port rotation for its breakbulk/roll-on, roll-off service between North America and southern Africa.

Emirates Shipping Line is joining the Far East-Middle East Express Service operated by Hanjin Shipping, effective early next month.

DFDS, northern Europe’s largest short-sea freight shipping company, sold a cargo terminal in Rotterdam to Germany’s Rhenus Logistics for $35 million.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority approved its budget for fiscal year 2012, which projects a 6.6 percent increase in container volume and nearly $82 million in capital projects for the year.

Shanghai – A Maersk Line executive said the carrier is seeing container shipping demand from Asia to the U.S.

Japanese containerized cargo exports will level off in fiscal 2011, which started on April 1, in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern part of the country on Mar

The annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards will be presented Oct. 28 to James L. Henry, chairman and president of the Transportation Institute; Gen. Duncan J. McNabb, commander of the U.S.

The race to order ultra large container ships as ocean carriers seek lower capital and operating costs will lead to increased rate competition as lines strive to fill their vessels, Alphaliner warned.

Shanghai – The president of the Shanghai Shipping Exchange, defending the integrity of the group’s closely watched and often criticized rate index, said Tuesday the pricing measure is buil

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APL is expanding its China-India Express Service with a weekly call at India's Port of Pipavav, starting at the end of this month.

ECT, Rotterdam’s biggest container terminal operator, denied reports that ocean carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. acquired a significant stake in its largest facility.

Horizon Lines announced a second one-week postponement of a deadline for securing bondholders’ support for a plan to refinance the debt of the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier.

New York City’s district attorney will indict Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines on Monday on charges that it is part of Iran's effort to obtain banned technology for its nuclear and missil

Somalia jailed an American, three Britons and two Kenyans for illegally bringing $3.6 million in cash into the country, allegedly to pay ransoms for two ships seized by pirates.

The U.S. economy is heading inexorably toward its next growth cycle, with agricultural exports ripe to help drive expansion, economists, shippers and government officials say.

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Eivind Kolding took a few verbal barbs after the Maersk Line CEO issued a manifesto on June 7 calling for radical changes to shipping business practices, but that hardly fazed him.

The U.S. tries to keep foreign-flag ships from polluting U.S. waters, but not every operator gets the message.

Maersk Line will implement a peak-season surcharge for cargo shipped from India to the United States, Guam and Canada.&n

Maersk Line is forecasting double-digit growth for its Asian shipments of palm oil, sugar and rice to Africa this year as demand for food commodities surges in frontier markets, an executive said on F

Some shippers and port executives in Southern California, assessing trans-Pacific shipping prospects at the start of the peak season, say they believe cargo volume will increase mo

Maersk Line in July will implement a peak-season surcharge for cargo shipped from India to the U.S., Guam and Canada.

The Commerce Department is giving exporters relief from tough export control regulations that many companies have decried as an outdated impediment to their ability to export technology that poses lit

U.S. steel exports declined 9.3 percent in April from March and 8.8 percent year-to-year, the Commerce Department said.

Imports at the nation’s largest container ports are expected to remain flat through July before picking up when the annual peak season for holiday shipments begins later this summer, the Nationa

Construction of homes and apartments increased 3.5 percent in May from the previous month but was down 3.4 percent year-to-year, the Commerce Department said.

The Port of Doha, Qatar, plans to award contracts to build the first phase of a new container complex in the gas-rich Persian Gulf state in November.

Hanjin Shipping is teaming up with NYK Line to renew its Far East-Middle East Express service starting from early July.

Vessel operator and owner Diana Containerships on Thursday added a sixth ship to its fleet of containerships for hire.

APL Logistics, looking for greater efficiency matching international and U.S. domestic transport, will deploy its own fleet of 53-foot containers in the North American domestic intermodal market.

Global Ports plans to raise up to $572 million from an initial public offering in London that would value Russia’s largest port operator at $2.4 billion.

Combined container import volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 4.8 percent year-over-year in May, slower than the growth rate the month before and behind the 5.1 percent increase in

Vessel calls at U.S. ports increased 13 percent last year as the country recovered from the worst recession in decades, the Maritime Administration said Wednesday.

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India grew a mere 1 percent year-over-year in the first two months of fiscal 2011-12, the Indian Ports Association said Wednesday.

Emirates Shipping Line is joining the Middle East Express Service operated jointly by Cosco Container Lines and Orient Overseas Container Line.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, racing to elevate the Bayonne Bridge, is “working towards a date of 2016” to complete the complex engineering project and clear a path for la