Container Shipping News

Maersk Line is telling its customers to expect a shortage of container availability for exports out of Asia lasting through the peak season.

Panama’s Cabinet Council on Tuesday approved the Panama Canal Authority’s proposed toll increases, which will result in tolls on container ships rising nearly 14 percent when they tak

Although the volume of containers passing through the Port of Rotterdam dropped by 10 percent in 2009, the share of container volume transshipped through the port rose to 30 percent from 28 percent in

“K” Line acquired a 51 percent share in the U.S.-based logistics service provider Air Tiger Express Companies.

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The Federal Maritime Commission on June 23 will review preliminary findings in its fact-finding on vessel capacity and equipment availability for U.S. shippers.

Charleston’s container volume climbed more than 22 percent in May over the same month last year, with 68,238 pier containers handled, about the same as in April.

APL Ltd. was chosen as the top carrier for the second consecutive year in the Agriculture Transportation Coalition's annual survey of ocean carrier performance.

The Containerization & Intermodal Institute said Tuesday it will present the 2010 East Coast-based Connie Awards to J. Russell Bruner, Chairman and CEO of Maersk Inc., and James I.

The Port of Salalah appointed Shiva Dean to the position of chief commercial officer.

Container carrier APL entered a vessel-sharing agreement with Hapag-Lloyd, CMA CGM, NYK Line and Orient Overseas Container Line on the India-America-Express Service, effective this month.

Cargo handled at leading French port Marseilles Fos through May reached 36.6 million metric tons -- up 6 percent on the first five months last year – with container throughput contributing a 16

Container traffic through Chinese ports hit an all-time monthly high of 12.44 million 20-foot equivalent units in May as the nation's foreign trade surged by nearly 50 percent from a year ago.

Two men were arrested and a third was found dead Monday at the Wando Welch Terminal at the port of Charleston after they stowed away in a cargo container from the Dominican Republic, according to news

The U.S. Export-Import Bank and the government of Vietnam signed an agreement June 14 that would offer $500 million in Ex-Im financial backing for sales of U.S.

OOCL said Monday it will extend and upgrade its intra-Asia KTX3 service as of June 27 with new calls at Singapore, Jakarta and Port Kelang, and increased frequency to and from Jakarta.

OOCL said Monday it is increasing freight rates as of July 15 for cargo it transports from Northeast Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea) to Australia.

Canadian National Railway and container facility operator TSI Terminal Systems inked what they called a “supply chain collaboration agreement” aimed at improving turnaround times for conta

OOCL said Monday it launched a new technology called Mobile Vessel Tracking that enables shippers to search and track any OOCL vessel using their mobile devices.

West Coast ports face political threats that could stifle the nascent commercial recovery they are experiencing, according to the president of the organization that represents shipping lines and termi

Intra-Asia shipping is one of the world’s busiest container shipping areas, and a new free trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is aimed at meeting foreca

Technology market leader Intel is due to turn on the switch at its $1 billion integrated circuit packaging and testing plant in Ho Chi Minh City later this year, but there is far more at stake for shi

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The Port of Gulfport, Miss., is still grappling with the legacy of Aug.

Bananas, coffee, melons, fruits and vegetables, tube socks, running shorts, jeans and t-shirts are heading north. Petrochemicals, paper products, mining equipment are transported south.

Containerized import volume into Southern California ports jumped 18.3 percent in May, as the shipping recovery at Los Angeles and Long Beach picked up speed and retailers pushed more goods out of Asi

Ocean vessel operators are watching talks in Congress over potential changes in oil pollution liability limits for the impact legislation responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster could have on car

The Journal of Commerce’s Annual Top 100 Importers and Exporters ranking is based on data from PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, a JOC sister company, and other industry sources.

International Longshoremen’s Association members in Hampton Roads refused to accept lower pay for handling uncontainerized cargo and for handling containers that move on a barge shuttle between

Maersk Line is set to unveil a peak-season surcharge on the Asia-Europe liner trades in mid-July.

An ocean carrier representative, responding to a sharp broadside from a congressional leader, said legislators should be cautious about imposing new regulations on container ship lines because of prob

CMA CGM will share space on Maersk Line’s FM3 service linking the Far East and Indian subcontinent, which will add a direct call at Shanghai.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, responding to criticism this year of carrier moves on rates and capacity, is forming an advisory board with shipper members to

Container carrier Samudera Shipping Line upgraded its feeder connections between India’s eastern Port of Kolkata and Singapore.

SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping lines are implementing measures in westbound Pacific lanes that should provide a long-term solution to capacity and equipment shortages hitting U.S.

Decrying ocean container carrier business practices, the head of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee called Thursday for the end of antitrust immunity for vessel operators in the Uni

Two 139-foot-long wind turbine blades transported recently in an Antonov AN-225 were the longest cargo pieces ever flown in an aircraft, said logistics provider Geodis Wilson, which managed the shipme

Rickmers Maritime, the Singapore-listed container ship charter owner whose survival during the trade and economic recession was in doubt, won a five-year extension to repay a $130 million top-up loan

Danaos, the Greek container ship owner, said it re-chartered six vessels, including some of its oldest ships, reflecting the improving conditions in the container ship charter market.

Major ocean carriers plan to raise rates on India-U.S. trade lanes as demand picks up.