Container Shipping News

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India announced a general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe, as part of what it calls a rate restoration program.

Not every bankruptcy ends badly. There will be a mañana for USA Dry Van Logistics, a cross-border trucking specialist in McAllen, Texas, that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Nov.

When global trade collapsed in 2009, most container lines cut back on services and idled ships. Mediterranean Shipping Co.

Trade conditions for U.S. wastepaper exporters have been favorable since the end of the global economic recession in late 2009.

October was the best month ever for exports at Los Angeles Grain Terminal, and it looks like the good times will last for a while.

Shipments of scrap paper to China began to pick up in the fall of 2010, and that’s a good sign for the U.S. economy.

A sharp upswing in traffic in the past six weeks resulted in the best shipping season through the St. Lawrence Seaway in four years, the seaway’s Canadian management company said Thursday.

Taiwanese ocean carrier Evergreen Line and Middle East-based Simatech Shipping will launch a joint container service connecting key ports in the Indian subcontinent and China.

Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port, said total cargo volume hit a record high in 2010, buoyed by record container traffic driven by surging world trade and a booming German economy.

Ocean container carriers will levy an average fee of $25 per bill of lading for all cargo entering the European Union in 2011 when the bloc’s advanced manifest rule comes into effect.

The Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey, seeking to settle a problem critical to the port’s future, said Wednesday it will propose to raise the roadbed of the Bayonne Bridge rather than

United Arab Shipping Company will seek a general rate increase on the westbound trade from India to Europe and the Mediterranean, as part of a new rate restoration program.

Containerized cargo out of Port Everglades, Fla., exceeded previous-year volume by 9.6 percent in October and November, the port said Tuesday.

Diana Shipping, the NYSE-listed dry bulk ship owner, is to spin off 80 percent of its majority-owned container shipping unit through a separate listing on NASDAQ.

Antwerp boosted container traffic by 16.1 percent in 2010 from a depressed 2009, helping the port to retain its ranking as Europe’s second largest box port after Rotterdam.

CSAV will pay nearly triple its current ship charter rate to extend use of a medium-sized container ship for 12 months, a stark sign of rapidly rising in the market for chartering vessels.

A record 61 container ships of more than 7,500 TEUs capacity were delivered in 2010 and even more will join the world box ship fleet in 2011, according to a leading industry analyst.

Shippers in the Northeast were hit by service delays, but ocean, truck and air cargo operators said operations were returning to normal after a blizzard Sunday brought the region nearly to a

The Indian Shipping Ministry ordered all major port authorities to strictly implement new measures to improve the security and handling of hazardous materials, the ministry said.

Germany's Duisburg port, the world’s busiest inland port, boosted container traffic 25 percent in 2010 from the year before, outpacing growth at Europe’s top box hubs.

OOCL on Thursday announced increases in terminal handling charges for China mainland traffic to and from Australia, effective Jan. 3.

Two bills that could have had significant consequences for the supply chain died quietly as the 111th Congress adjourned Wednesday.

Maersk Line said it will raise ocean freight rates from the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent to northern Europe and the Mediterranean twice during the first quarter of 2011.

The heavy rains in Southern California this past week caused mudslides and road closures throughout the region, but the harbor drayage community in Los Angeles-Long Beach kept on trucking.

Wisconsin's ballast water regulations are too strict, according to a study by the state's environmental department.

Container traffic at Baltimore posted year-to-year increases of 5.7 percent in November and 16.9 percent during the first 11 months of this year.

The Canaveral Port Authority closed on a $42 million loan to help fund the $100 million construction of two cargo piers and a cruise terminal at Port Canaveral.

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a motion to expand the port's clean-truck program to cover the smaller Class 7 trucks that have entered harbor service this past year.

Hainan P O Shipping expanded its trans-Pacific service to include a weekly call at the Port of Oakland.

Container volume through the Port of Charleston in November increased 12.6 percent from a year earlier, the 11th consecutive month of growth.

Hamburg said it will freeze 2011 harbor dues at 2010 levels amid an increasingly competitive battle for cargo, especially containers and break bulk shipments.

Europe’s ports will finish this year with a 13.8 percent increase in containerized import volumes that will approach 2008 levels, with additional increases expected in 2011, a new forecast says.

Forth Ports said Tuesday its Scottish ports and a flagship container terminal near London were performing in line with expectations despite severe weather conditions that have snarled transport across

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index fell to its lowest level since the start of the year in the week ending Dec.

The American Trucking Associations told a federal regulatory agency that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey lacks legal authority to establish a “voluntary” program that would use stickers

The Port of New York and New Jersey said all its terminals and the SeaLink office will be closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. All terminals will reopen Dec.

CMA CGM announced an emergency congestion surcharge of $82 per 20-foot container on services between Europe and Port Botany in Sydney, Australia, effective Jan. 15, 2011.

APM Terminals is working with Italian banking company Unicredit Group on the development of a container terminal at the northern Adriatic port of Monfalcone.

Container traffic at Savannah and auto shipments at Brunswick, Ga., posted double-digit increases in November from last year’s volumes, the Georgia Port Authority said.

The first two gantry cranes arrived Dec.