Container Shipping News

Almost half of all containerships on order are for capacity of more than 10,000 20-foot equivalent units and the average size of vessels delivered this year will be more than double that of a decade a

The Port of Krishnapatnam’s start of container operatios in late September positions the Indian port as an alternative to the congested container gateway in

DP World said its London Gateway deep-sea container port will start operations in the fourth quarter of 2013 with an initial annual capacity of 1.6 million 20-foot equivalent container units.

Fesco, owner of Russia’s largest ocean carrier, boosted revenue by 27 percent in the first six months and forecast an even stronger second half performance.

Cargo shipped through the Panama Canal increased by 7.1 percent in the fiscal year 2011 ended Sept. 30, to set a record of 322.1 million Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System tons.

South Carolina environmental regulators on Friday blocked a permit sought by the Army Corps of Engineers to deepen the Savannah River channel to the Port of Savannah, increasing tension between the st

Throughput at ports in the southeast Chinese province of Fujian from January to August rose 8.3 percent year-over-year to 6.1 million 20-foot equivalent container units.

Container line Safmarine said Monday it will merge its operations into larger sister carrier Maersk Line, a move that cut 240 jobs while boosting efficiency and reducing costs.

When the International Longshore and Warehouse Union violently protested the hiring of non-ILWU workers at a Pacific Northwest grain elevator, the union’s East and Gulf Coast counterparts were q

India’s Port of Chennai appealed to container terminal operators, shipping lines and shippers to help ease congestion at the congested southeastern hub.

A tentative agreement between nearly 500 Canadian Auto Workers and Canada’s St.

The Yangtze River is the world’s third-longest river after the Amazon and Nile, stretching 3,914 miles from the Tibetan Plateau to its mouth at Shanghai.

With the International Longshoremen’s Association contract expiration a year away, some shippers already are starting to explore contingency plans.

A U.S.-Canada cross-border dispute simmering since last spring may be on the verge of boiling over.

The record drought in the Southwest this year caused $5.2 billion in agricultural losses in Texas, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service reported.

With container and general cargo volume steady and rising across the Gulf of Mexico, ports are spending much of their time expanding shoreside facilities in anticipation of increased Asian cargo flows

Nearly 500 Canadian Auto Workers employees on Friday notified Canada’s St.

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A 16.4 percent jump in exports spurred a 7.3 percent increase in loaded international container volume at the Port of Tacoma in August from a year earlier.

Mediterranean Shipping Co., the world’s second-largest container shipping carrier by fleet capacity, will raise rates from the United States to the Far East, effective Nov. 1.

The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said its member carriers plan to implement targeted rate increases on export commodities Nov. 1.

CSAV is living an extreme version of container shipping’s recent ups and downs.

International container services partially resumed Friday at Japan’s Port of Sendai, the largest port in the northeastern Japanese region that bore the brunt of the devastating March 11 earthqua

Ron Widdows, a prominent leader in the global container industry, is leaving his position as group president and CEO of Neptune Orient Lines as of Oct.

Korean container line Hanjin Shipping will launch an Asia-Pacific to West India direct service in late October.

Horizon Lines has delayed for one week its target date for completing a $655 million refinancing that would stave off bankruptcy by the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier.

Kuehne + Nagel named former carrier executive William F. Rooney this week as its vice president of sea freight for the trans-Pacific.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will apply a general rate increase on the eastbound trade from North Europe to

DHL Global Forwarding launched less-than-containerload direct services from Germany to Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, as the Deutche Post DHL Group subsidiary taps growing German manufacturing and aut

The World Shipping Council will keep Ron Widdows as chairman of its board through September 2012 after he steps down as group president and CEO of Neptune Orient Lines at the end of this year.

The European Investment Bank approved an $82 million loan to finance the construction of a new container terminal in the Spanish Atlantic port of Cadiz.

Maersk Line doesn’t expect the 20 giant new container ships it has ordered to flood the market, nor does it expect the ships to become the new standard on the Asia-Europe trade lane,

The Drewry Container Rate Benchmark for trans-Pacific spot pricing fell for the second straight week in the week ending Sept.

Maersk Line expanded its Asia-Europe Service 7 with a direct call at Qingdao, China, effective this month.

The port of Felixstowe inaugurated the first deep water berths in the U.K. able to handle the latest generation of mega container ships on Wednesday.

U.S. containerized imports last month fell 1.5 percent from a year earlier, dragged down by lower shipments of home goods, apparel and toys, PIERS data show.

The Indian Navy captured pirates attempting to seize two foreign-flag cargo vessels in the Gulf of Aden, Navy officials said Tuesday.

The Port of Antwerp said on Tuesday it will speed up imports of products made from animals by centralizing their inspection at one border point and pass the savings to importers through 25 percent lo

Plans to build a $1.5 billion container terminal at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) got back on track after the consortium of Singapore’s PSA International and India's ABG Group recei

Horizon Lines, moving to complete a $655 million refinancing this week, said Kimberly-Clark had agreed to drop antitrust claims resulting from the carrier’s price-fixing in the U.S.