Container Shipping News

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On a recent Saturday, longshoremen at the SSA Marine terminal in Oakland averaged an astounding 58 container lifts per crane per hour.

Gibson Guitar’s agreement to pay a $300,000 fine to settle allegations that the company imported illegally harvested ebony and rosewood has amplified debate over the Lacey Act.

Retailers and other beneficial cargo owners encountering a shortage of container space this peak season need not look far when they point the fingers of blame.

Frustrated Indian shippers can take solace in the government’s effort to speed up shipments and bring greater shipping competition.

China trade was definitely hopping in the Year of the Hare.

Although Hong Kong and the mainland ports of southern China aren’t going anywhere at the top of the global rankings, the country’s slowing economic growth and shifting manufacturing strate

Leasing companies are picking up some of the slack from financially strapped ocean carriers that have cut back their container purchases.

Hong Kong’s stunning natural harbor has made it a natural center of trade for centuries.

Tropical Shipping plans to implement a general rate increase for shipments between the continental U.S., Canada, the U.S.

Cargo tonnage at the Port of Hueneme, California, increased 8.2 percent to 1.3 million metric tons in the fiscal year ending June 30.

Hapag-Lloyd today named the “Hamburg Express,” the first of 10 13,200 20-foot-equivalent units container ships, the largest in the German ocean carrier’s fleet, which will deployed o

German container carrier Hamburg Sud will raise its rates on trades from the Indian subcontinent and the M

Led by sharp increases in shipments to Mexico, Russia, and other key markets, U.S.

Boskalis Westminster’s first half profit dipped 10 percent from a year ago to 102.5 million euros ($126 million), but the world’s largest marine services and dredging group said revenue an

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union prepared to file suit Thursday against the Port of Portland and its executive director, charging the port violated federal and state law by agreeing to

Hamburg Sud this week christened the Santa Barbara, the l

Volumes were down in the first half of 2012 at the German seaport of Rostock.

Maersk Line, the container line that moves more refrigerated cargo than any other carrier, has decided not to purchase any new reefer containers next year.

Hamburg’s container traffic declined in the second quarter as sharply lower Asian shipments outweighed growth on Baltic Sea and Russian routes.

Spot rates in the Asia-Europe trade dropped this week, for the second week in a row, more than eroding the effect of the peak-season surcharge that some carriers put into effect at the beginning of th

CEVA Logistics is boosting its footprint in the Midwest to speed delivery by up to four days by better connecting its ocean services to its surface network.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. plans to raise rates in two stages on the eastbound trade from the U.S. to the ports of Poti and Batumi in Georgia on the Black Sea.

Despite slow growth in import demand in the trans-Pacific trade and the decline in demand in the Asia-Europe trade, the recovery in ocean freight rates is strong enough that BIMCO expects the peak sea

Dockwise swung to a $8 million net loss in the second quarter from a $9 million profit in the previous three months, but the Dutch heavy-lift operator boosted its order backlog for the sixth successiv

The fire-damaged container ship MSC Flaminia and its accompanying tugs have been moved to a position more than 400 nautical miles west of the English Channel to avoid rough weather, the ship’s o

The volume of containers handled by terminals in the Port of Virginia in July increased 7.4 percent from June and by 8 percent over the same month last year.

Container traffic at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex in July was lackluster, with Los Angeles reporting an increase of 5.5 percent and Long Beach a decline of 8.8 percent compared to July 2011

HHLA’s profit and container traffic increased in the first half of 2012, but Hamburg’s biggest stevedore forecast flat full-year results amid slowing growth across the North Europe port ra

Evergreen Line said it will begin a new Straits-Yangon (Myanmar) service in late August i

U.S.-based Intermarine and Denmark’s Scan-Trans Holding

Container ships arrived at their destination ports around the world 83 percent of the time in July, an increase of two percentage points from

Damco’s earnings before interest and taxes jumped 42 percent to $51 million as air freight revenue more than doubled and net revenue increased 12 percent to $1.543 billion.

Average spot rates on the eastbound trans-Pacific trade lane eased 5.2 percent from last week’s record high, which followed the general rate increase recommended by the Transpacific Stabilizatio Agreement implemented by carriers during the first two weeks of August.

Hapag-Lloyd has joined other major container carriers in announcing a general rate increase on westbound trade from India to Europe, effective Sept. 3.

The owner of the fire-damaged container ship MSC Flaminia has declared general average, meaning all parties with cargo on the ship will proportionally share losses resulting from efforts to save the s

International Longshore and Warehouse Union Coast Committeeman Leal Sundet was not speaking in hyperbole Monday when he said the jurisdictional dispute in Portland between the ILWU and the Internation

Dockworkers in Portland suffered a jurisdictional loss late Monday when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that jobs involving the working of refrigerated containers at the port belong to the ri

Port congestion resulting from reduced working hours and higher demand during Ramadan is causing shipping delays in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, prompting new liner surcharges.