Container lines

Hamburg Sud will stop providing chassis for merchant haulage in and around the Port of Oakland as of Sept.

Container, auto and breakbulk volumes at Georgia’s two deep-water ports surged at double-digit rates in the 12 months of the fiscal year ended June 30, the Georgia Ports Authority reported Monda

Severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) spurred major ocean carriers to skip calls at the port and reroute ships to Mundra, a privately-owned cargo hub farth

In their original proposal for the 2011 contracting season, ocean carriers announced through the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement discussion group they intended to impose a $400 peak-season surcha

The peak season is at hand in the eastbound trans-Pacific, but freight rates are dropping steadily and carriers are pulling vessels from service.

The largest Maersk Line container ship ever to call Indian shores arrived Thursday at the Port of Cochin, a major cargo hub on the India’s southeast coast.

Norway’s Star Reefers swung to an $11.3 million second quarter net loss from a year-earlier profit of $3.8 million, as spot market rates fell, fuel costs rose and container carriers targeted the

The Port of Le Havre said Hanjin Shipping resumed service between Japan and the French port on July 15 after several years without any Japanese service to the French port.

"K" Line will join a vessel-sharing agreement next month that is currently operated by Evergreen Line and Simatech on the booming trade lane between the Far East and Indian subcontinent.

Singapore-based container carrier APL will impose a peak-season surcharge on all cargo shipped from Asia and the Middle East to the United States and Canada, starting Aug. 1.

OOCL told its customers it will once again delay its peak season surcharge in the eastbound Pacific trade for another two weeks until Aug. 15.

A four-liner consortium will upgrade their joint vessel-sharing agreement between the Far East and South and West Africa to a weekly service in August, and add an additional Singapore call on west and

The largest container ship to ever call the Port of Charleston, the MSC Bruxelles, docked at the Wando Welch Terminal on Wednesday.

Four hundred and forty-eight container ships with a combined capacity of 2.78 million 20-foot equivalent units are scheduled for delivery in 2011 and 2012, adding enormous capacity well ahead of growt

CSAV’s volume of transported containers fell by 10 percent in June from May of this year, but the average revenue per container increased.

Japan will extend the Self-Defense Forces’ anti-piracy mission in the waters off Somalia for another year starting July 23.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will be the anchor customer of a new terminal at the Port of Lome, Togo, with annual capacity of 1.5 million 20-foot equivalent units, according to a published report.

The Indian Navy foiled an attempted pirate attack on a Greek merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden between Yemen and Somalia, the navy’s western command said.

Maersk Line will start a new service between Ecuador and the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea in September that will call at Novorossiysk.

Orient Overseas Container Line is forecasting a “disappointing” full year even after the shipping line's second-quarter container volume and revenue increased

Maersk Line is postponing by two weeks the implementation of the peak season surcharge that it planned to apply on East Asia-U.S. East Coast cargo July 15.

Ocean carrier CMA CGM announced will impose a series of rate hikes and peak season surcharges on Asia-Europe trade lanes in August even as lines confront a glut of capacity that has

APL will apply an emergency congestion surcharge on imports containers at India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), and other carriers are expected to follow as ships clog the country&rsqu

The Toy Shippers Association partnered with Laufer Group International, integrating the company as its official non-vessel operating common carrier.

Fesco boosted container traffic 46 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same period a year ago, as Russia’s largest ocean carrier benefited from the nation’s economic reco

Container shipping supply and demand will remain “highly volatile” for the next three or four years before possibly settling into a more standard cyclical pattern, according to Seaintel Ma

Costamare is paying Mediterranean Shipping $55 million for a 5,000 20-foot equivalent units container vessel the Greek container shipowner will charter back to the ocean carrier.

Mediterranean Shipping Company and Chilean carrier CSAV entered a vessel sharing agreement to launch a direct co

The European Union’s plan to slash ships’ sulfur dioxide emissions will likely result in

The founder of telecommunications company Neustar, Jeffrey Ganek, joined the board of directors of INTTRA, an electronic booking portal for the ocean freight industry.

Tobias Koenig has a proven business model at Marenave, the shipowning company he listed five years ago on the Hamburg Stock Exchange.

DHL will expand direct less-than-containerload service from Shanghai to Seattle, reducing transit times for LCL shipments by up to four days, the company said.

A weekly Europe-based ocean container index by Drewry Shipping Consultants and Cleartrade Exchange will launch in September, g

U.S. consumer sentiment fell this month to its lowest level since March 2009, reflecting depressed income and low employment levels, a widely watched survey reported.

Maersk Line, Ltd., won a multi-year contract valued at up to $126 million to operate and maintain five container and roll-on, roll-off ships for the U.S. Navy.

The maritime industry would be required to slash sulfur dioxide emissions by up to 90 percent at a cost of $3.6 billion to $15.6 billion, under a proposal unveiled by the European Commission on Friday

Chilean container line CSAV and Mediterranean Shipping will jointly operate four liner services under a new agreement, stepping up ocean carrier rationalization amid overcapacity, slowing cargo d

Although container production is up in the wake of last year’s critical shortages, prices for the boxes have nearly doubled in the last two years and shippers will face an ongoing shortage of th