Container lines

Container shipments from the Far East to the United States declined by 15.3 percent in 2009 from the previous year to 10.1 million 20-foot equivalent units, down 2.8 million TEUs from their peak of 12

APL, the liner shipping subsidiary of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, handled 307,400 40-foot equivalent units in the six weeks from Dec. 26, 2009, to Feb.

Hapag-Lloyd in April will seek rate increases on two trade lanes affecting the Indian Subcontinent.

Relations between trans-Pacific shippers and carriers are testy in the best of times, and these aren’t the best of times.

With container volumes down 18 percent from the peak year of 2007, and some marine terminals operating at 50 percent of capacity, this may not seem like the best time for West Coast ports to spend bil

The global financial crisis that began in 2008 and accelerated into 2009 sent trade volume from the export-oriented economies of the Asia-Pacific region into the steepest decline in the modern interna

Horizon Lines, the largest U.S.

Horizon Lines is close to a decision on whether to shift its weekly New York-New Jersey port calls for the carrier's Puerto Rico service to Philadelphia or Jacksonville, CEO Charles G.

CMA CGM will raise rates on major lanes around the world in a “rate restoration program” beginning March 1 with later phases kicking in March 15 and April 1.

Financially-troubled CMA CGM will not get conventional state aid from the French Government, but the container line is still in talks with FSI, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, about new equ

Mediterranean Shipping Company’s “Golden Gate Service” made its inaugural call Thursday at the Port of Charleston, when the first vessel in the service to call Charleston, the MSC Ri

Shipping lines that carry U.S. exports to Asia intend to increase their freight rates effective April 1 in a continuing attempt to recover from last year's recessionary rate levels.

Mediterranean Shipping Company announced Thursday a general rate increase on exports from North America to Europe and the Mediterranean as of April 1.

Overseas Orient Container Lines, extending the shipping world's push toward higher prices, said Tuesday it will increase freight rates by $100 per 20-foot container as of March 1 on cargo moving from

Hanjin Shipping expects to post a profit this year and boost revenue 27 percent as world trade picks up and shipping lines cut fleet expansion plans, according to Bloomberg News.

The United Arab Shipping Company said it signed a $275 million multi-currency loan facility to finance the acquisition of three container ships of 13,100 20-foot equivalent units capacity.

Hamburg Süd said it will replace its current service between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean through a slot-charter agreement with Hapag-Lloyd’s MGX service.

CMA CGM, which has been heavily involved in relief efforts in Haiti since the earthquake devastated the country on Jan.

Navigating through a storm of historic magnitude, any ship captain probably would be expected to make adjustments and even look for an entirely new course.

For a company that lost more than $1 billion in 2009 and is almost certain to spend 2010 in the red, Hapag-Lloyd seems an unlikely recovery story.

BNSF’s top intermodal executive concedes the western railroads have permanently lost much of their East Coast market share to all-water container shipping services from Asia, but Steve Branscum

Atlantic Container Line said Friday it will raise rates on east- and westbound trans-Atlantic cargo, effective April 1.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it is temporarily using several 8,085-TEU ships, the largest to call at U.S.

The Federal Maritime Commission has given members of the carrier discussion group in the eastbound Pacific the authority to talk about strategies intended to reduce air emissions, water pollution and

CMA CGM, which is in tough negotiations with South Korean shipyards to delay or cancel orders it placed in 2007 for some 30 new ships, is not laying up any of its vessels and is scrapping “very

CMA CGM, the troubled French carrier that is in talks with its creditor banks about restructuring $5.6 billion in long-term debt payments, expects to receive the balance of the $500 million in short-t

APL said Friday it will apply a general rate increase to all cargo moving from the Far East to India and Pakistan.

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

Additional charge applies from March 1 to 20 on shipments from China to Canada

CMA CGM announced Thursday it will raise freight rates on the westbound trade from Asia to ports in North Europe, the Eastern and Western Mediterranean and the Black Sea as of March 15.

CMA CGM will seek a general rate increase on all westbound cargo on the EPIC Service from India and Pakistan to Europe and the Mediterranean, starting March 1.

John Fredriksen, the Norwegian shipping billionaire, cut his stake in TUI, the biggest shareholder of German ocean container carrier Hapag-Lloyd, to 15.7 percent from around 19 percent.

Hapag-Lloyd, Germany's largest ocean container carrier, drastically reduced losses in the final three months of the year on substantial freight rate increases on some routes but is forecast to remain

Bulk shippers and carriers routinely buy and sell futures contracts called freight forward agreements based on the Baltic Dry Index of bulk rates, to hedge against the risk that a rise or fall i

Dean Tracy, director of international logistics at Lowe’s, had a devilish time getting his spring and summer merchandise on vessels leaving Asian ports in late January.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will apply a general rate increase on all eastbound cargo from Spanish ports to destinations in the Middle East and the Far East.

“K” Line, which expects to post a loss for the fiscal year ending March 31, said Friday it will issue a public secondary stock offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange later this month to rais

Five shipping lines are setting up a new vessel-sharing agreement that will start service in April between Asia and the East Coast of South America via South Africa.

Ocean container freight rates are surging on key Asia-Europe trade routes as traffic rebounds from a year-long downturn and carriers cull capacity.

The German government is pressing South Korean shipyards to delay deliveries of container vessels to financially troubled German ship-owners.