Container Shipping News

Mark David, sales manager of Saratoga Honda, normally gets 115 to 150 new Hondas a month to sell to customers in this upstate New York resort town.

An International Longshore and Warehouse Union protest at the Port of Longview, Wash., entered its third week on Friday, with picketers demonstrating in front of the EGT grain export terminal over the

Many shippers are avoiding moving cargo through the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), as some face delays of up to 10 days because of congestion recently exacerbated by crane installation.

CMA CGM and Chilean carrier CSAV will jointly operate a direct container service between Asia and West Africa, starting early next month.

Horizon Lines lost $7 million in the second quarter compared to a $4.1 million profit in the same period a year ago, as the U.S.

Container volumes through South Korean ports rose 10.5 percent to a record 10.5 million 20-foot equivalent container units in the first half of the year compared to the same period a year ago.

Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Line) expects to suffer a group operating loss of $64.10 million fiscal 2011, which began April 1, compared with a group operating profit of $751.4 m

Maersk Line announced a general rate increase on westbound cargo moving from India and Sri Lanka to West Africa

With the installation of a single turbine at a dock on the lower Mississippi River, a renewable energy company is taking a big step toward what could be an unending power source.

Resins are the unchallenged king of the Houston container market, but there are millions of reasons that could change in the years ahead.

Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K.

Japan’s Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) lost $91.68 million on a consolidated basis in the first quarter of fiscal 2011, which started on April 1, compared with a net profit of $294.79

Truckers that dray containers to and from many of the ocean terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey say there aren’t enough chassis available in the ocean carriers’ chassis pool t

Harold Daggett took over as president of the International Longshoremen’s Association on Thursday with a vow to fight automation, increase organizing and research activities, aggressively enforc

MOL is doubling the capacity of its CX1 feeder service running between Panama and Manaus, the Brazilian manufacturing center 800 miles up the Amazon River.

Greek containership owner Costamare increased its profit 24.7 percent year-over-year to $26.2 million in the second quarter.

Three major ocean carriers are hiking rates on westbound shipments from India to Europe, starting in early August.

The Commonwealth of Virginia is offering shippers a tax credit for moving containers off the highways to the marine highway or railways, Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton said Tues

U.S. containerized imports dropped 1.7 percent in June from the same month last year after rising 5.5 percent in May, a poor signal for trade heading into the peak shipping season.

Containership charter rates are tumbling as ocean carriers re-asses their tonnage requirements amid slowing cargo growth and weakening freight rates.

A new slate of eight directors was sworn in as new members of the board of the Virginia Port Authority on Tuesday, which will be headed by a new chairman, Michael J.

Hapag-Lloyd is implementing a series of general rate increases and peak-season surcharges on Asia-Europe-Mediterranean trade lanes, as part of a new rate restoration program.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have chosen seven companies as recipients of the 2011 Clean Air Action Plan quality awards.

The volume of containers handled by at terminals operated by the Guangzhou Port Group increased by 10.3 percent year-over-year in the first half of 2011 to 5.2 million 20-foot equivalent units.

Denmark’s DFDS, northern Europe’s largest short sea carrier, and French ship-owner Louis Dreyfus Armateurs, on Tuesday launched a joint bid for certain assets of SeaFrance, a financially t

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Tacoma dropped by 11 percent in June compared to the same month a year ago, reflecting the sluggish trends in the U.S.

Danaos, the Greek containership owner, reported a sharply lower second quarter loss compared to the same period a year ago, as charter revenue surged 35 percent within the same period.

Japanese export ship orders fell for the second straight month in June on a year-on-year basis, plunging 65.7 percent to 545,770 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters&r

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), which is struggling to cope with increased congestion, unveiled plans to build a fifth container terminal to accommodate a projected significant g

DP World said an 11 percent jump in container traffic in the first half of the year will deliver “significant improvement” to the Dubai-based terminal operator’s earnings in the peri

Hamburg Sud will stop providing chassis for merchant haulage in and around the Port of Oakland as of Sept.

Dockwise signed the first contract for the world’s largest heavy-lift vessel with U.S. oil company Chevron for a undisclosed sum.

Container, auto and breakbulk volumes at Georgia’s two deep-water ports surged at double-digit rates in the 12 months of the fiscal year ended June 30, the Georgia Ports Authority reported Monda

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell replaced 10 out of the 11 members on the board that oversees the Virginia Port Authority in an effort to spur lagging volume and revenue.

Containership owner-charterer Rickmers Maritime Trust said Monday that its net profit in the second quarter surged by 1,302 percent year-over-year to $8.55 million, while its revenue increased 3 perce

Severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) spurred major ocean carriers to skip calls at the port and reroute ships to Mundra, a privately-owned cargo hub farth

In their original proposal for the 2011 contracting season, ocean carriers announced through the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement discussion group they intended to impose a $400 peak-season surcha

The AFL New England made its inaugural call at Boston on July 19, officially kicking off the vessel’s Halifax-Portland, Maine-Boston service, the first stage of a marine highway network American