Container Shipping News

The western railroads provide the vital intermodal link between the West Coast and the eastern half of the country for containerized imports from Asia, and they appear to be taking in stride the cargo

The long-awaited surge in diverted cargo from East Coast ports to the West Coast finally arrived in September, but the harbor trucking industry in Southern California can’t decide if it's a blessing or a curse.

At least one logistics manager at a major consumer goods supplier has little concern about the weak export demand from Asia’s mature countries and the continent’s resilience to the economi

Shippers are relieved that a 90-day contract extension averted a threatened International Longshoremen’s Association strike at the height of the retail peak season.

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Container carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services yesterday named

The TT Club, a mutual insurance association, urged all participants at the International Maritime Organization’s session on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers to redouble their effort

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index comprehensive reading for Sept.

Hapag-Lloyd’s planned initial public offering is unlikely to happen until 2014, one of the container line’s largest shareholders told a German newspaper.

Maersk Line plans to implement general rate increases on two major trade lanes, as part of a new rate rest

The World Container Index comprehensive reading for Sept. 21 was down 3 percent or $66.03 from the week before, to $2,137.54 per laden 40-foot container, the World Container Index reported.

Container ships reached their destination ports around the world on time 77 percent of the time in August,

INTTRA announced a new release of its OceanSchedules service that enables customers to access and evaluate more than 7 million global vessel schedules from 31 ocean carriers.

Indonesia is planning to roll out a single electronic platform across all of its commercial ports over the next few years that will automate all business process between port stakeholders, including t

India’s port privatization program suffered yet another setback Thursday when a consortium that had won concessions to build and operate a new container terminal at the southeastern Port of Enno

The annual cost of operating a container ship rose 3.1 percent in 2011, mainly because of rising wages for crews and higher repair and maintenance costs, according to international accountant and ship

Russia’s Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port plans to invest $205 million to expand capacity and modernize facilities at a container terminal in the Black Sea port of Novoroslesexport to keep pace

Average spot rates in the eastbound trans-Pacific trade stayed flat this week after a jump of 8.6 percent last week fueled by demand for space.

Check in with the JOC as we provide you with the latest developments out of the International Longshoremen's Association and United States Maritime Alliance contract negotiations labor dispute.

Maersk Line CEO Soren Skou has warned shippers of refrigerated cargoes for several weeks that they are going to have to start paying more.

Annual capacity of Mediterranean container ports is expected to rise by 63 percent to 114 million 20-foot-equivalent units during the next decade, according to

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

The Global Port Tracker report forecast continued sluggishness in North Europe container imports, and forecast that international imports to the region’s ports will decline 2.1 percent this year

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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.

The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Tokyo rose 5.1 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier to about 2.08 million 20-foot-equivalent units.

An APL executive stuck in Dubai for months awaiting trial on gun-smuggling charges

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.

DP World signed a contract Sunday for the construction of a third container terminal at its flagship Jebel Ali box hub in the United Arab Emirates.

This fall has brought something absent in 2011: a peak season for containerized import shipments of holiday goods.

Timing is everything.

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles want to bring owners and users of chassis together to develop an operating model for the Southern California gateway.

Most U.S. Gulf ports focus largely on trade with Asia, Europe and South America, but a late bloomer is emerging out of the Southern Hemisphere.

The timing and health of shipping peak season is as murky on the rails as it is on the water.

The drought in the U.S. Midwest will stall or at least slow the long-term trend toward higher protein diets in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, according to a report from Rabobank.

OOCL will increase freight rates on services from South East Asia, India and the Middle East to Australia next