Container Shipping News

Norway’s Star Reefers said it has reached a “satisfactory” solution to its dispute with Russia’s largest fruit importer that

Cosco Container Lines announced an increase in its bunker surcharge on all shipments, including reefers, from the Far East to the east coast of South America.

United Arab Shipping Company will raise its rates on trades from North Europe to Asia and the Indian subcontinent, starting May 1.

Exports of refrigerated goods from the U.S. last year increased 16 percent to 15.5 million metric tons, and economists forecast reefer exports will rise again this year.

Maher Terminals has filed a Federal Maritime Commission complaint alleging the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey discriminated against Maher by

Westbound Asia-to-Europe spot rates eased slightly this week, but held on to most of the 28 percent jump in

Container shipping lines have been able to raise Asia-Europe freight rates enough to return them to profitability on the route, according to the latest Bimco Shipping Market Overview.

DB Schenker this month launched a less-than-containerload service from Houston to the Middle East via Dubai to meet growing demand for oil and energy equipment exports.

Hapag-Lloyd will launch a new weekly service next month connecting Germany with ports in the Baltic region.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. denied it is weighing plans to spin off its global container terminals unit in an initial public offering in Singapore.

The West Coast arbitrator who adjudicates labor disputes involving the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and waterfront employers on Wednesday ruled dockworkers in Los Angeles-Long Beach wou

Orient Overseas Container Line will add eastbound calls in Los Angeles and Shanghai to its Pacific Atlantic Express service beginning with the May 9 sailing from Yantian, China.

CMA CGM has announced an “emergency rate restoration” of $385 per 20-foot container on routes from Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean.

Hamburg is set to sharply increase its share of the fiercely competitive North European container market after a long-delayed plan to

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the final documents on Wednesday for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project for review by state and federal agencies and the general public.

Container imports to Europe increased 4 percent in February, while exports grew 8.89 percent, according to the latest analysis from Container Trade Statistics.

A Vietnamese vessel carrying 60 containers sank off the shore of southern Vietnam after it collided with a Thai ship Tuesday morning, according to reports.

The Federal Maritime Commission is interested in exploring a suggestion by agricultural shippers that establishing a container rate index for exports could be beneficial for U.S. shippers.

Horizon Lines said its fourth quarter loss on continuing operations narrowed to $6.9 million from $33 million a year earlier as

Maersk Line is implementing a new round of general rate increases on various trade lanes that will take effect in May.

The general rate increase implemented on March 15 by carriers on the eastbo

"K" Line will upgrade its services linking Asia and Mexico and the west coast of South America ov

Horizon Lines has completed transactions that reduce the company’s net deb

OOCL named Andy Tung, its current chief operating officer, as its new chief executive, succeeding outgoing CEO Philip Chow, as of July 1.

Ocean carriers could face a short-term funding call of up to $20 billion in 2012 as they are not generating sufficient cash to cover interest payments and meet capital requirements, according to conta

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major container ports is expected to increase 3.2 percent in April compared to the same month last year, and year-over-year gains should continue through the

Container shipping lines in the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement have announced further rate hikes for dry

The U.S. auto trade is undergoing a sea change as the import share of the domestic market is set to level off in the next few years and exports of U.S.-made cars rise.

The Korean hub of Busan saw total container traffic expand 13.7 percent in February compared to a year earlier.

CMA CGM will raise its rates on westbound cargo moving on its Epic service from India to North Europe and the Mediterranean, starting May 1.

The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Osaka in western Japan rose 9.8 percent in 2011 from the previous year to a record high of about 2.17 million twenty-foot equivalent units

The reintroduction of idled container ships is the biggest threat to a l

Container throughput at India's major ports grew 3 percent year-over-year in fiscal 2011-12, which ended March 31, the slowest growth rate in three years.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will seek a general rate increase on westbound trade from India to North Europe

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Hapag-Lloyd will impose a peak-season surcharge on eastbound trades from North Europe and the Mediterranean to the Indian subcontinent.

Spot freight rates in the Asia-Europe trade jumped 28 percent this week as the general rate increases imposed by carriers on April 1 took hold, only

INTTRA will provide ocean shipping planning, management and optimization services to the freight forwarding group WCA Family under a strategic alliance announced Thursday.

The Panama Canal’s new locks will probably not be ready for their scheduled opening in October 2014, but will be ready for a trial run by a vessel in December, said Jorge Quijano, the engineer i

More modern vessels and slow-steaming will help Singapore container line APL cut carbon exhaust emission by 30 percent by 2015, the carrier says.