Container Shipping News

Germany-based liner agent Peter W. Lampke formed a joint venture with Beluga Chartering to be called the Beluga Projects Agency.

Cosco Shipyard in Dalian, Korea delivered the heavy-lift multi-purpose vessel Adam Asnyk to Chipolbrok, the Chinese-Polish carrier that operates breakbulk and project cargo services worldwide.

Horizon Lines, the largest U.S.

The Port of Savannah saw its second straight month of container traffic growth in November, but the brief peak season recovery slowed down sharply as import volume declined 13.8 percent.

A modest recovery in container volume appears to be underway at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and exports are leading the way.

OOCL will increase its rates on all dry and reefer shipments from Hong Kong, Macau and South China to Australia, the company said Wednesday.

Shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific will attempt to increase their freight rates by $400 per 40-foot container on Jan.

The House on Monday voted to extend two widely-supported trade programs, but for only one year.

China Cosco Holdings, China’s largest shipping company, warned Monday that it will post a full-year loss.

Hapag-Lloyd swung to an operating loss of $986 million in the first nine months of 2009 from a year-earlier profit of $320 million as Germany's biggest ocean container carrier booked double digit decl

MOL in January will increase ocean freight rates in two phases for all refrigerated cargo exported from the United States and Canada to Asia, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

Marine terminal and shipping industry executives applauded the latest relief program that will save Port of Los Angeles tenants about $25.7 million in the coming year.

Hapag-Lloyd co-owner TUI on Monday rejected the latest bid by its biggest shareholder John Fredriksen, the Norwegian shipping tycoon, for a seat on the TUI supervisory board.

The year long decline in Asia-Europe container traffic is slowing and freight rates are rising, according to the latest figures from ocean carriers.

Many of the European banks that traditionally have financed shipbuilding are quitting the business, leaving a troubling gap in the financial underpinnings of the business.

Maersk Line is gaining traction with its U.S. chassis pool, and momentum is building for a new structure to manage the critical intermodal truck equipment across the country.

The Grand Alliance ocean container shipping venture will add Vietnam to its Asia East Coast Express service next month, joining the rapid buildup of international transportation connections to the cou

While private companies and government researchers look at ways to efficiently scan ocean cargo containers, the National Academy of Sciences is studying whether the Department of Energy, which deploys

There is a serious delay at the container screening line.

A Matson ship that received major work at a Chinese shipyard may continue to operate in Jones Act service, the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia ruled.

Crowley Maritime is starting a third, fixed-day sailing to its “Speed to Market” services from Port Everglades, Fla.

The delivery of one out of every five containerships due for delivery during the last three months was postponed, said the Baltic and International Maritime Council, a shipping association based in De

A U.S. district court in New Orleans on Thursday fined Greek carrier Polembros Shipping $2.7 million and banished its vessels from U.S. waters for three years, the Justice Department said.

The U.S. arm of Maersk Line is extending its Direct ChassisLink program to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Rochester, Worcester, and Pittsburgh as of Feb. 1 of next year.

Rickmers-Linie, the Hamburg-based breakbulk, heavy-lift and project cargo specialist, appointed Zurich-based Brunoni SA as its Swiss agent, effective Jan. 1.

The liner shipping industry generated $436.6 billion in direct and indirect benefits to the world economy in 2007 and provided 13.5 million jobs, according to a new study commissioned by the World Shi

Containerized exports at the Port of Seattle increased 51.4 percent in October over the same month last year, pushing the Pacific Northwest port to its busiest month since 2007.

Maersk Line is launching the first scheduled container service to call at Turbo, Colombia's main banana export port.

The Grand Alliance is losing one of its four carrier members, MISC Berhad (Malaysia), which said Wednesday it is withdrawing from the group as of Jan. 1.

The French Port of Marseilles Fos will freeze its port tariffs through 2010 to support customers “in a strained economic context” and to enhance the port’s competitiveness, the port

The slowdown in global trade took its toll of Hong Kong&rsquo;s container traffic in the third quarter, according to the latest figures released by Hong Kong&rsquo;s Census and Statistics Department.<

Global seaborne trade grew to 8.17 billion tons in 2008, which, though a record volume, represented a growth rate of only 3.6 percent, lower than in the previous year, the United Nations Conference on

The world container ship fleet grew at the slowest rate in 10 years in 2009 as nearly one out of eight vessels is laid-up.

BLG, the Bremen/Bremerhaven port company, said container traffic will close the year around 20 percent below the 2008 figure, and auto shipments will slump by 40 percent.

A.P. Moller-Maersk signed a new five-year contract with IBM for the provision of IT hosting and support services.

India&rsquo;s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru plans to set up a port-based export processing zone, a first-of-its-kind project in the country, the port trust said Tuesday.

First Ship Lease Trust pulled a planned $200 million note offering Dec. 7, citing the fallout from Dubai World's financial problems.

DHL launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting India&rsquo;s largest container port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Dubai.

Bahrain officially inaugurated its new Khalifa Bin Salman Port on Sunday in ceremonies attended by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

Deepening financial troubles may be triggering deep changes at CMA CGM and Zim Integrated Shipping Services.