Container Shipping News

The U.S. surpassed Canada as the largest wood pellet exporter in the world in the first six months of 2012....

Imports at 10 top U.S. container gateways are expected to increase nearly 10 percent in October as merchants wrap up their pre-holiday shipping season

Jones Act carriers transport life’s essentials to residents of Alaska and Hawaii as states linger in recovery mode.

A.P. Moller Maersk will ask energy trading company Vitol regarding its use of the Maersk Producer.

OOCL today announced the winter schedule for the Scan Baltic Express.

Maersk Line, the global containerized division of the A.P. Moller–Maersk Group, is expanding its Daily Maersk service.

Maersk Line plans to hike its rates on westbound trade from the Indian subcontinent to North Europe, start

Joe Ruddy had a big problem.

E-commerce distribution is expanding at the speed of broadband, giving a jolt to the broader industrial space market that is picking up but still growing closer to the pace of modem dial-up.

The U.S. Grains Council is predicting a strong Chinese corn crop, driven by higher yields and an increase in planted acreage.

The G6 Alliance of European and Asian container carriers will start a feeder shuttle between two German

Turkey’s Yildirim Holding has acquired a 54 percent stake in Gemport, a container terminal on the southeast coast of the Marmara Sea near the capital, Istanbul.

Container volumes at West Coast ports inched up in August, with imports increasing slightly and exports decreasing a bit.

WASHINGTON D.C.— The U.S.-Panama free trade agreement likely will take effect in November, with the signature of President Ricardo Martinelli being one of the last steps to implementing the long-delayed pact.

Representatives of the International Longshoremen’s and the New York Shipping Association have opened negotiations on a contract covering issues including work rules and pay practices in the Por

Without being detected, pirates recently plundered NZ$20,000 (about US$16,387) of specialized salvage equipment that had been on board the barge RNG280 as it sailed through the Strait of Malacca on it

CMA CGM is in advanced negotiations for a $150 million cash injection by France’s state investment fund in return for a 6 percent stake in the French ocean container carrier, according to media

The Containerization and Intermodal Institute presented its 2012 West Coast Connie Awards to Matthew J. Cox, president and CEO of Matson Inc., and Donald C.

The Seamen’s Church Institute, in collaboration with New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine, today released

Richardson International Ltd. plans to tap growing agriculture export markets by spending about $120 million to expand its port terminal facility in Vancouver.

Much like the tows waiting to traverse the locks on the Mississippi River, a strategic plan to improve the inland waterways has seen serious delays.

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Although China’s growth has slowed from double-digits down to the high single-digit range, the growth of food consumption is showing no signs of slackening.

Ocean carriers must cut capacity on the Far East-Europe route by a further 30,000 20-foot-equivalent units over the next two months to shore up planned rate hikes in November, according to industry an

Europe Container Terminals, Rotterdam’s biggest container handler, is joining forces with the port authority and Dutch logistics group Kloosterboer to develop a pan-European intermodal hub for t

North America Western Asia Holdings on Oct.

Daina Shipping Company, a subsidiary of Greece-based Costamare, reached a financial settlement with New Zealand’s government today regarding

The port of Singapore’s container facilities will benefit from an investment of S$3.5 billion (US$2.85 billion) over the next decade as PSA Singapore Terminals continues to boost capacity.

The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Osaka in western Japan fell 3.5 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier to about 1 million twenty-foot-equivalent units

The European Union early next year will unveil a system aimed at reducing greenhouse emissions in the ocean shipping industry because efforts to curb pollution on the seas aren’t moving fast eno

Although China’s passenger rail services dwarf those of the United States, its container rail connections dramatically lag its North American rival.

Ocean carriers in the Asia-to-U.S. trade lane, it seems, finally get it.

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The public investment flowing into East Coast terminal expansion and harbor deepening ahead of the Panama Canal expansion may be getting all the ink, but private companies see another huge opportunity.

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.

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