Container Shipping News

Manufacturers are looking for lower-cost sourcing locations as China’s wages rise well above those in other emerging markets.

Hapag-Lloyd is seeking a series of general rate increases on East Asia services, as part of a new rate restoration program.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett warned of a possible ILA strike if the union can’t secure acceptable terms in a new contract.

Multiyear contracts indexed to freight rates are slowly starting to catch on in global trade lanes as a means of creating stable and predictable rates for shippers and ocean carriers.

India’s Tariff Authority for Major Ports ordered a 27.85 percent reduction in tariffs currently levied by Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, a DP World facility in the Port of Jawahar

Just four months after launching its Daily Maersk liner service in the Asia-Europe trade, Maersk Line says it could expand the highly popular “conveyor belt” offering to other trade routes

The port of Liverpool will start construction early next year on a $480 million, deep water container terminal with an initial 500,000 20-foot equivalent units-a-year capacity.

With dozens of federal agencies having some degree of involvement in the cargo clearance process, importers are crying out for a single government portal at the border.

Exporters are complaining about inaccuracies in ocean carriers’ electronic data that expose shippers to costs and delays.

The Federal Maritime Commission has agreed to give shippers and carriers more ability to manage rate risk in service contracts through a new rule allowing contracting parties to agree to rates based o

Container ship lines will struggle to achieve profitability while attempting to manage capacity that’s expected to rise faster than cargo volume, and the result may be more rate volatility and s

The economies of scale that are driving carriers to replace their fleets with mega-ships will result in the consolidation of shipping lines or in the reduction of competition on customer service, acco

Maersk Line will not allow its renewed focus on profitability rather than cargo volume to eat into the significant gains in market share it achieved in 2011, the carrier said on Monday.

United Arab Shipping is joining other major ocean carriers in seeking a second general rate increase this year on the troubled Asia-Europe trade lanes.

Maersk Line is teaming up with BNSF Railway to offer day-definite delivery of Asian imports through Los Angeles to Chicago, Memphis, Dallas, Houston and the CSX Railway hub at Northwest Ohio.

Westbound trade from the U.S.

Cosco Container Lines and China Shipping Container Lines are looking to expand their vessel-sharing agreements on China coastal and intra-Asia trade lanes to other routes, said Capt.

Jim Devine hit the roof when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey raised the truck and auto tolls on its bridges and tunnels last September.

Maersk Line’s warning that it would follow up 2011’s $602 million loss with another year in the red underscores the dire forecast by most of the major ocean carriers that have reported ear

From Valparaiso, Chile, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ports face the reality that their land-use and business growth plans can’t be developed in a vacuum.

A top shipment arriving in Detroit by air not long ago drew the interest of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after the agency got a heads up from data collected by Customs and Border Protection.

Old Dominion Freight Line is driving its trucks to the water’s edge and beyond, expanding its drayage and expedited less-than-containerload services.

Chinese manufacturing in February expanded at the fastest pace in five months, as export orders surged after a production lull caused by Lunar New Year celebrations.

Horizon Lines said Friday it will raise freight rates on cargo moving between the U.S. and Puerto Rico as of April 1.

How many TEUs did Japan export to the U.S. in 2009? What is the forecast for U.S. containerized trade with China in 2012?

Mediterranean Shipping imposed a general rate increase on westbound cargo from India to North Europe and the

The Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) will be able to handle deep-draft vessels and expand throughput capacity in roughly two years after India’s top container hub received $320 million for

When U.S. ports in the Pacific Northwest talk about rival Prince Rupert, British Columbia, words such as “diversion” and “unfair advantages” dot the conversation.

February’s visit to the U.S.

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2011 was a year of contrasts in the Asia-U.S. trade. U.S.

The Abu Dhabi Port Co. plans to open a port with an initial annual capacity of 2 million 20-foot equivalent units in the United Arab Emirates in late 2012.

At times, it seems the only thing shippers, forwarders and carriers share is a common mantra: They say they want to talk about service quality but complain their counterparty is only interested in pri

It’s fine to have an opinion but better to base the opinion on facts, especially if millions of dollars are at stake.

Hanjin Shipping joined other carriers on Friday in announcing a second round of freight rate increases on its westbound Asia-Europe service, this time as of April 1.

An “unidentified” merchant ship collided with an Indian fishing trawler early Thursday about 15 nautical miles off the country’s southern coast of Kerala, leaving two fishermen dead

OOCL says it will increase freight rates on cargo moving to Australia from Southeast Asia, including from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, the Indian subcontin

A.P. Moller-Maersk appointed Robert Uggla chief executive of its Svitzer tugboats subsidiary.

A key Asia-Europe freight index has soared 114 percent in the past week, boosting carriers’ hopes steep rate hikes introduced Thursday will stick even as cargo growth slows on the world’s

Hanjin Shipping will take delivery on April 1 of the first of the five huge post-Panamax ships it ordered in June 2011 with capacities of 13,000 20-foot equivalent units.