Container lines

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India will seek a general rate increase on westbound trade from India to Europe and the Mediterranean.

Singapore-based container carrier APL is reorganizing its Subcontinent-Red Sea Express (SRX) Service, effective in July.

The Port of Tacoma will receive two new container services in early August when the Mediterranean Pacific and the Oceania services begin calling at the port.

Average spot rates on the Asia-Europe trade slipped this week for the seventh week in a row, threatening to erode the series of four big general rate increases that carriers have been able to nail dow

An extensive search of a container ship at Newark, N.J., ended this morning without authorities finding any stowaways.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will impose a general rate increase on shipments from Asia to the east coast of South America, starting July 15.

The United Seamen’s Service will present the 2012 Admiral

The Agriculture Transportation Coalition said APL, “K” Line and OOCL shared the top ranking in the organization’s seventh annual carrier performance survey.

Hong Kong’s Cosco Pacific, operator of the biggest container terminal in the Port of Piraeus, Greece, is considering further investments in the country as the cash-strapped Athens government pre

Box Ships took delivery Monday of its eighth vessel, the OOCL Hong Kong, a secondhand vessel built in 1995 with capacity of 5,344 20-foot equivalent units.

Oman Container Lines will begin a new service to India on July 3.

With only moderate growth projected in the global container trades for at least two more years, and overcapacity keeping a lid on rate increases, carriers must take innovative steps to reduce the cost

OOCL said it is suspending until further notice the Atlantic Express Shuttle that it operates in a vessel-sharing alliance with Hapag-Lloyd between Hamburg, Antwerp and New York.

Mediterranean Shipping Co.

After a three-hour hearing Friday in Portland, U.S.

Alfred J.V. “Al” Stanley has joined project and heavy-lift carrier Intermarine as president and CEO, succeeding Andre Grikitis, who will become operating chairman.

The International Chamber of Shipping wants governments in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to resume negotiations on a global agreement to eliminate market-distorting measure

Hanjin Shipping and Hapag-Lloyd will skip their weekly vessel calls at Portland, Ore., until there’s a settlement to a union jurisdictional dispute that has slowed cargo handling at the port.

German ocean carrier Hamburg Sud will raise its rates on trades from the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East to Europe, South America and the Caribbean, starting July 1.

Turkey’s Yildirim Group intends to exercise its option to buy another 10 percent stake in CMA CGM, which will bring its ownership of the French liner company to 30 percent.

Hapag-Lloyd is suspending its weekly Atlantic Express Shuttle service between New York, Antwerp and Hamburg until further notice “due to the current market situation.

Maersk Line will impose a general rate increase on trades from Latin America to the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East, starting July 15.

Russia’s Summa investment and trading group moved closer to a $1.4 billion takeover of Fesco as it prepares to make an offer to minority shareholders in the owner of the country’s largest

Hapag-Lloyd temporarily suspended “acceptance of shipments” bound for Riyadh via the Port of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

APL plans to implement a general rate increase on the westbound leg of Asia-Europe trade, effective July 1.

Sluggish economic growth, a weak jobs market and flagging consumer confidence have led Journal of Commerce Economist Mario O. Moreno to lower his forecast for U.S.

U.K. marine insurer Standard Club has withdrawn coverage for a Russian cargo vessel said to be transporting attack helicopters and arms to Syria.

Ocean carriers’ failure to fully implement planned peak-season surcharges on the trans-Pacific trades in May has created a two-tier market, according to Alphaliner.

Hapag-Lloyd plans to implement a new round of general rate increases on its East Asia services that will take effect July 15.

Concerns over a slump in container freight rates are overstated because lines are desperate to avoid a rate war and will suppress box slot supply to maintain profits, according to one leading expert.<

The National Labor Relations Board&rsquo;s regional director filed an unfair-labor-practices charge against the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, saying the ILWU slowed work at the Port of

The National Labor Relations Board&rsquo;s regional office said the International Longshore and Warehouse Union engaged in unfair labor practices by slowing work at the Port of Portland, Ore., in a ju

When APL books an import load from Asia to an inland destination such as Chicago, Dallas or Kansas City, the container line&rsquo;s logistics experts immediately look for loads to fill the emptied con

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will implement a new bunker adjustment factor on all container shipments from the Far East to both coasts of the U.S. as of July 1.

Singapore-based container carrier APL imposed a peak-season surcharge on cargo shipped from India to the U.S., effective June 15.

OOCL announced three changes in its management team on Thursday.

Standard & Poor&rsquo;s Ratings Services on Thursday lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on CMA CGM&rsquo;s debt to &ldquo;CCC plus&rdquo; from &ldquo;B minus&rdquo;, saying its liquidit

CSAV said it secured a $90 million 12-year loan from Germany&rsquo;s DVB bank to complete the financing of the last two container ships out of a total of seven ordered from the Samsung Heavy Industri

Greece&rsquo;s Box Ships Inc.

Five carriers announced plans to reconfigure the slings of their joint service to meet peak-season demand on the trade between Asia and the West Coast of Mexico and South America.