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Container Shipping News

The latest container shipping news and analysis of ocean container shipping, logistics, supply chains, technology solutions and end-to-end connectivity. Coverage includes the movement of containerized cargo handled by marine terminals and container ports, depots, container lines, drayage, consignees, importers and shippers, forwarders, non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCCs) and off-dock warehousing providers. The Journal of Commerce's container shipping news includes news from the trans-Pacific, Asia-Europe, North America-Caribbean, Central and South America trades, and intra-Asia trades.

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The latest Container Shipping News News & Analysis

NVOs' plans for rate flexibility

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

Half a loaf is better than none. That's the stand that non-vessel-operating common carriers are taki

Charter boom continues into '04

BY BRUCE BARNARD |

The charter market for container ships has good news and bad news - good news if you're an owner off

A tough ticket

BY PETER T. LEACH |

The steep increase in the number of Panamax vessels transiting the Panama Canal in the last two year

Primed for action

BY ANDREW BEADLE |

In its petition seeking authority to sign confidential ocean container contracts with shippers, UPS

Unfinished business

BY ANDREW BEADLE |

There's one loose end to the new Maritime Security Program, and carriers that move food under U.S.<b

Sticking together

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

Shippers' associations, which pool members' cargo to negotiate volume discounts from ocean carriers,

Buyer's market

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

When shipping lines in the westbound Pacific announced in early December that they intend to raise t

Taking the long view

BY ANNU MANGAT |

Stacks of empty shipping containers stand as high as eight-story buildings outside the Port Newark-E

10 more years for ship subsidies

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

As commercial arguments for a U.S.-flag merchant marine have waned, the main rationale for the fleet

Pacific carriers trim services

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

It worked last year, so eastbound trans-Pacific carriers are trying it again. Now that the annual su

Med carriers look eastward

BY ANNU MANGAT |

Bright spots are hard to find for carriers serving the U.S.-Mediterranean trade. It's a mature trade

The arrival of the 8,000-TEU ship

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

Before one of Orient Overseas Container Line's new 8,000-TEU ships could make its first call last su

Backhaul bonanza

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

Bob Weiss has his own way of tracking the growth in market opportunities for U.S. food products. He

Rolling on the river

BY ANNU MANGAT |

When Bill Cronin entered the shipping business 45 years ago, New York harbor bustled with tugs and b

Uncertain outlook

BY ANNU MANGAT |

Billions of dollars will eventually be funneled into Iraq to rebuild its war-ravaged infrastructure,

The peaked peak season

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

For many trans-Pacific shippers, September and October brings a familiar but unwelcome routine. Hars

FMC gets an earful

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

The Federal Maritime Commission mailbag is overflowing. The commission received nearly 300 comments

TACA gets a reprieve

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

Members of the Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement received welcome news two weeks ago. The European

Locked and secure?

BY ANNU MANGAT |

Capt. E.H. Krupicka tells the harrowing story of the ship's crewman who lost his leg trying to secur

Not much of a splash

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

Now that the Federal Maritime Commission has settled a case in which container lines were accused of

Ruling settles the issue - for now

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

Vern Hill, director of the Federal Maritime Commission's Bureau of Enforcement, said the commission

Pacific lines face a difficult sell

BY BILL MONGELLUZO |

Large importers and national retailers are still kicking themselves for agreeing last spring to rate

Split decision in NVO-TSA rematch

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

After 17 months of investigation, the Federal Maritime Commission's settlement with the Transpacific

Feeding frenzy

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

It is time for the Federal Maritime Commission to fish or cut bait. Three large logistics companies

Where's the peak season?

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

carriers' predictions<br><br>It's late August in the eastbound trans-Pacific ocean container trade,

Tariffs: Still a tool for shippers?

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

Searching for a tariff rate can be nearly as difficult as locating a left-hand monkey wrench. Such a

Paper money

BY ANNU MANGAT |

For ocean carriers, the recent rise in freight rates has added some luster to the U.S. wastepaper ex

'Carriers' market' in trans-Atlantic

BY ANNU MANGAT |

After several years of battling unfavorable market conditions, trans-Atlantic carriers are enjoying

Back on the hunt?

BY ANNU MANGAT |

Interest is brewing in whether CP Ships, a savvy force for consolidation in container shipping, will

The fight of his lift

BY JOSEPH BONNEY |

After 16 years as president of the International Longshoremen's Association, John Bowers was ready t

Agent of change

BY JOSEPH BONNEY |

There's no love lost between John Bowers, president of the International Longshoremen's Association,

Europe's antitrust review heats up

BY ANNU MANGAT |

European regulatory authorities are casting a critical eye at longstanding rules that permit shippin

Coming: new batch of mega-ships

BY ANNU MANGAT |

The universe is expanding, the prevailing theory of physics says, and so are container ships. A new

Sticking to script

BY BILL MONGELLUZZO |

Despite the growing number of large ships scheduled to enter service during the next three years (St

Full-ahead for MSP

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

What's remarkable about the new Maritime Security Program is the expedited treatment that Congress i

Does the FMC mean business?

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

Does the Federal Maritime Commission really mean business? The federal agency that oversees liner sh

Three weeks and counting

BY WILLIAM ARMBRUSTER |

Evergreen Marine and its customers will be weeks recovering from an International Longshoremen's Ass

Eastern front

BY JOSEPH BONNEY |

Since John Bowers became president of the International Longshoremen's Association in 1987, the unio

Still more to do

BY DAN BLEDSOE |

Six years after its founding as an amalgam of British and Dutch shipping lines, P&O Nedlloyd is the

Let the public be heard

BY R.G. EDMONSON |

The Federal Maritime Commission says it's just an adjustment in its procedural rules, but the action