Container Shipping News

APL appointed Wong Siew Loong regional president of its North Asia business, which covers China, Japan and Korea.

Taiwanese ocean carrier T.S. Lines launched a container service earlier this month that connects the Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), India and the Persian Gulf.

A shipping executive warned exporters to plan ahead for their equipment needs because empty containers will be increasingly difficult to secure during the coming winter and spring.

About a year ago, Daniel J. Vandermeulen and his global procurement team at Mattel huddled with the toymaker’s in-house lawyers.

APL’s container volume fell slightly in September from August, while average revenue per container slipped despite attempts to impose a peak season surcharge recommended by the

Grain exporter EGT and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union continue to cry out for clarity over the union’s contention that EGT is bound by a working agreement with Washington’

Policymakers believe creating a network of scheduled roll-on, roll-off services across Southeast Asia can reduce transportation costs and spur economic growth in the region.

U.S. GDP is expected to grow by $12 billion as a result of new free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. So why stop now?

The catastrophic events triggered by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami in March that devastated large areas of Japan and killed thousands also had an impact on automotive supply chains world

Although most Japanese producers have recovered at home and abroad from the impact of Japan’s March 11 natural disasters, some such as Honda are still struggling because so many of their supplie

Canada and the United States have maintained a peaceful border for almost 200 years, but the peace is occasionally broken by a war of words. This is one of those times. On Oct.

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s announcement to introduce risk management tools to help shippers trade derivatives comes as the Federal Maritime Commission

Fesco and BLG Logistics established a Russo-German auto logistics joint venture at the port of St. Petersburg to handle imports into Europe’s fastest-growing car market.

Salvage crews battling to contain the environmental damage from the stranded ship Rena leaking oil off New Zealand were unable to resume pumping out fuel Thursday.

“K” Line is starting a new weekly intra-Asia service that will run between North China and Southeast Asia.

CSAV is reconfiguring its two services from Asia to Mexico and West Coast of South America and Central America, the Andex Services Sling 1 and Sling 2.

International containerized trade through Japan’s Port of Yokohama declined 6.3 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier to just less than 1.4 million 20-foot equivalent units,

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Japanese containerized cargo exports will slow to 0.2 percent in fiscal 2011, which started on April 1, after growing 9.2 percent the fiscal year previous, said a Japanese research firm.

South Carolina’s refusal to grant a permit to deepen the Savannah River is just a bend in the river, say Georgia Ports Authority officials, not a blockade.

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Federal, state and municipal agents said three containers were detained for improper placards among the 252 containers and tanks checked during two days of intensive inspections this week at Horizon L

The port-terminal authorities at Chennai, India’s second-largest container gateway, temporarily suspended export cargo movements and scaled back vessel handling as congestion at its two marine t

A chartered Mediterranean Shipping Co. container ship that foundered on a reef in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty is expected to break apart in next few days,

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Horizon Lines said it will raise rates on its U.S. shipments to China on Nov.

Containerized imports at the Port of Los Angeles were flat in September compared to last year and slipped slightly from August, all but leaving the peak shipping of 2011 as a bust.

India’s Shipping Ministry denied that state-owned Shipping Corporation of India is in the midst of a financial crisis, requiring the national carrier to freeze its fleet expansion plan.

Spot rates for container shipments from Hong Kong to Los Angeles fell below $1,500 per 40-foot-equivalent unit for the first time since January 2010, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants’ we

The Panama Canal Authority completed the third phase of digging the excavation for the new locks on the Pacific side of the canal.

Container ship lines face renewed losses because they have reverted to their habit of emphasizing “price, price, price instead of service, service, service,” said Orient Overseas Container

India’s exports surged 36.3 percent year-over-year to $24.8 billion in September, according to latest provisional figures released by the Commerce Ministry.

BNSF Railway intermodal executive Fred Malesa does not believe West Coast ports will lose much market share in the Asian trade when the

SHENZHEN -- Struggling with sliding rates amid plentiful capacity on major world trade lanes, several container line executives say they are starting to consider whether to lay up some vessels in

Several large shippers say they are now providing rolling forecasts of their demand outlook to improve coordination with ocean carriers following supply and demand disconnects in recent years.

Carriers in the westbound Pacific trades reconfirmed their intention to implement export rate increases generally of $100 to $200 per 40-foot container effective Nov. 1.

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Chilean container carrier CSAV is reorganizing its IMEX 1 Service connecting India, the Middle East and Europe, starting this month.

The Grand Alliance will suspend its Japan-China Express service to the U.S. West Coast for the slack winter season beginning in late October.

Ocean carriers and charter shipowners have placed orders worth $57 billion for new container vessels over the next four years, with about half of the value of orders made as the industry emerged from