Container Shipping News

U.S. consumer sentiment edged up early this month but remains at recession levels, according to the monthly Reuters/University of Michigan index.

The Port of Guangzhou’s cargo traffic in the first seven months of the year rose 16 percent year-over-year, as the port complex benefited from Maersk Line using it as a gateway to South China.

Maersk Line is restructuring its Asia-Mediterranean service network, effective mid-September, enhancing port coverage and reducing transit times on the route.

The 250-member Panama Canal Pilots Union will affiliate with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, extending the reach of the powerful West Coast dockworkers’ union to Panama three ye

Bob Sinner’s family has been growing wheat in North Dakota’s Red River Valley for five generations, first, for the ever-expanding U.S. population, but increasingly for Asia.

A federal court judge in Tacoma Thursday found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in contempt of court for vandalizing the new EGT grain export terminal in Longview, Wash., during the uni

Much of what it will take for the Port of Jacksonville to realize its goal of becoming a top East Coast port is out of the port’s hands.

Workers at India’s Port of Chennai launched a wildcat strike Thursday morning to protest the death of a colleague in a dockside accident, local shipping circles said.

If Maersk Line’s latest bid to muscle aside competition for shipper business is to succeed, the carrier will have to do it on the world’s toughest trade route.

The Port of Mumbai extended by six months its concessions on container stuffing and de-stuffing charges to boost container throughput, as India’s once busiest container port tries to reclaim bus

MCC Transport may expand its presence in Asia’s cabotage market after purchasing its third vessel this year, increasing the Intra-Asia carrier's fleet to 56 charter ships.

Hapag-Lloyd is ruling out an initial public offering in the next 12 to 15 months, according to the German ocean carrier’s majority shareholder.

NYK Line will quit providing free intermodal chassis in the Northeast region, including the Port of New York an

Falling air freight rates are dampening demand for combined use of ocean and air transport to ship goods from Asia to Europe, says a GAC executive, as forwarders and shippers increasingly take the str

Import volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach signaled weak demand heading into the peak fall shipping season in August, falling 9.4 percent compared to last year and slipping sequentially

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will begin weekly service at Alabama’s Mobile Container Terminal, according to the Mobile Press-Register.

Governors of three Great Lakes states urged New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to prevent the shutting down of the St. Lawrence Seaway by easing the state’s ballast water standard.

Hamburg Sud and classification society Germanischer Lloyd are jointly developing a system to track pollution produced by the German carrier’s fleet.

Shipping volume in containers, general cargoes, and dry and liquid bulk cargoes at the major Syrian ports of Latakia and Tartous have slipped since protesters started mounting demonstrations against t

Singapore-based container carrier APL will apply a peak-season surcharge on cargo shipped from India to the U.S. and Canada.

Horizon Lines said it closed on a bridge loan of up to $25 million to ensure liquidity while the carrier works to wrap up a

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CMA CGM is reorganizing its CAGEMA service between the U.S.

Nordana is reactivating its direct roll–on, roll-off service between the U.S.

Japanese ocean carrier MOL will seek a new round of rate increases on cargo moving from the Far East to the Indian Subcontinent, as part of a rate restoration program.

Container ships will transport three quarters of perishable reefer cargo by 2014 as they take further market share from specialized refrigerated vessels, according to a new report.

Global Ports doubled its first half profit to $82.4 million, as Russia’s largest container terminal operator boosted domestic box traffic more than 70 percent in its first year as a public compa

Maersk Line will expand the daily guaranteed service announced yesterday for 12 Asia-Europe corridors to other trades if the concept proves a success.

Excel Shipping said its new membership in the INTTRA’s ocean shipping e-commerce network will allow the U.K.-based non-vessel common carrier to focus more on growing its business, instead of sch

Maersk Line is setting a standardized cut-off time for cargo being loaded on vessels on its Asia-Europe services, and the world's largest container line will pay shippers an unspecified compensation i

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will use Italy’s Port of Gioia Tauro to transship all cargo moving from ports in the United Kingdom and Northern Europe to Australia and islands in the Indian Ocean.

The weaker euro boosted Europe’s July exports to North America 9.4 percent to 311,000 20-foot equivalent container units, as all major container trade lanes saw steady volumes.

India’s exports surged for the fifth successive month in August, growing 44.2 percent year-over-year to $24.3

Patrick Halloran takes great pains to provide the carriers that transport Cardinal Health’s global shipments of medical supplies with his best and most accurate forecasts of imports and exports,

Sylvie Vachon joined the Montreal Port Authority in 1990, managing the departments of Financial Services, Land and Property, Procurement and Risk Management, Information Technology, Human Resources an

Ocean carrier executives breathed a sigh of relief last month when the Container Rate Benchmark published by Drewry Shipping Consultants jumped 21.5 percent in the week of Aug.

In the run-up to the 2011 peak shipping season, the world’s largest ocean carriers engaged in a form of slow-steaming, and not a good one, according to The Journal of Commerce’s ranking of

When consumers don’t buy, retailers don’t order and ship. Bad economic news is undermining container lines’ hopes for a strong fall peak season for holiday imports.

Four international shipping associations, representing most of the world's maritime industry, called for the creation of a United Nation armed force to tackle the worsening piracy crisis in the Indian

A shortage of port capacity is preventing lines from offering mainline U.S.