Container Shipping News

The barge-mounted Charleston Giant heavy-lift crane, already the largest floating crane in the Southeast, increased its certified load capacity from 450 short tons (900,000 pounds) to 500 short tons (

Damco, the combined logistics arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk, is absorbing the operations of Maersk Distribution Services, the inland distribution and warehousing arm of Maersk Line in North America.

Georgia’s port volume got a substantial boost from shippers in the five counties that make up metropolitan Atlanta in the last year.

Container manufacturers’ prices are up about 40 percent, so why are container lessors boosting their rates for new boxes by 60 percent?

The Federal Maritime Commission’s decision this summer to extend to the end of the peak shipping season its high-profile fact-finding investigation of container shipping capacity and equipment s

U.S. containerized imports grew faster than exports during the first half of this year, the first time that has happened since imports’ pre-recession heyday of 2006.

Shippers wondering if they can save money by transloading their imports from marine containers into domestic boxes should talk to Josh Owen.

The stars have aligned for container lessors. Tight supplies and rising demand are pushing utilization rates to almost 100 percent and their prices and profits higher.

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Independent truckers on the island of Grand Bahama are protesting a change in the trucking policy that Mediterranean Shipping Co. plans to put into effect on Sept.

Canadian National Railway inked performance agreements with ocean terminal operators Maher and DP World at the Prince Rupert and Vancouver ports.

Containerized imports in the Pacific Northwest were up sharply in August versus the same month last year, and only moderately lower when compared to the previous month this year.

Consumer sentiment slipped in early September to its weakest level in more than a year because of rising financial concerns among higher-income households, a new survey indicates.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will sue Gulf Rocks, the Kuwaiti owner of MV Khalijia-3, for damages resulting from that vessel's collision with the MSC Chitra on Aug. 7, according to Livemint.com.

If there’s such a thing as a “good” recession, then the world’s largest container terminal operators had it.

MOL has again been selected for inclusion in two separate investment indices of companies that meet international criteria for social responsibility – the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index a

Matson Navigation launched a second trans-Pacific service linking China with Long Beach. The service expands Matson's reach to the South China region.

The federal government will step up its efforts to help U.S. exporters sell goods abroad, the White House said Thursday.

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Russia’s largest stevedore plans to buy the operator of the nation’s largest oil export terminal, then sell a majority of its own shares to the state-owned monopoly oil pipeline operator,

UPS launched Wednesday a less-than-container-load ocean freight service between Japan and the United States.

Freight costs on shipments from India will go up substantially effective Oct. 1 following a tariff increase decision by state-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India.

Japanese export ship orders rose for the ninth consecutive month in August, surging 111.3 percent to 1,351,660 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters' Association on Thu

Hanjin Shipping plans to launch the first non-stop direct service from Vietnam to North Europe in October.

Maritime labor groups are asking Congress to go slow as it considers changes to the Ocean Shipping Reform Act that could affect carrier antitrust immunity.

Evergreen Line will double capacity on its Kaohsiung-Haiphong shuttle service with the addition of a second ship on the route, starting at the end of September.

More than 30 shipper groups pledged their support to Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., if he moves forward with legislation to abolish antitrust immunity for ocean carriers.

Combined imports into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 23.9 percent in August over the same month a year ago, and the ports defied analyst forecasts of a slowdown by reporting their strong

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey committed up to $1 billion in capital planning funds to help solve the port's problem with the Bayonne Bridge, whose roadway is too low for clearance by t

Vessel movements came to an abrupt standstill Sept. 6 at the state-owned terminal in India's Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva).

International Longshoremen’s Association members in Jacksonville approved a labor contract with Hanjin Shipping that clears the way for construction of a long-delayed container terminal at the port.

Container ship charter rates are edging higher despite slowing cargo volume and softening liner freight rates as some leading ocean carriers continue to add capacity in a bid to boost market share.

Trade and transport technology providers INTTRA and the Descartes Systems Group are forming an alliance to provide a global network capable of managing the entire ocean cargo shipment lifecycle.

Ocean container carriers, just back to profitability after last year’s steep shipping downturn, face a return to overcapacity in the coming 12 to 18 months because a projected fourth quarter slowdown

U.S. steel exports fell 14.4 percent in July from June but exceeded the depressed levels of 2009.

The Global Shippers’ Forum called for regulatory reform of the liner shipping industry in Asia at its meeting in Macau last week.

HHLA, Hamburg's biggest stevedore, will invest $90 million to expand capacity at its Odessa Container Terminal in Ukraine to keep pace with cargo growth in the Black Sea, the company announced.

Container volume at APL grew 13 percent in the four-week period ending Aug.

Ocean carrier visions of multiple peak-season surcharges in the eastbound Pacific are vanishing as imports from Asia level off and the market returns to reality.

If you had spent the past two years in South America, it’s quite possible you wouldn’t know there’s been a global recession.