Container lines

Box Ships, a New York Stock Exchange-listed container ship owner based in Greece, said Thursday it took delivery of two more containerships of the six vessels that make up its initial fleet.

European Union antitrust officials raided the European offices of a number of Asian carriers on Tuesday in addition to European shipping lines as part of a probe into suspected price fixing in the sec

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A 15-mile stretch of the Mississippi River near Natchez, Miss., is closed to barge traffic, severing a busy route for shipments of grain and other cargoes.

The financial performance of ocean carriers will deteriorate in the second quarter as falling freight rates and rising operating costs hit shipping companies’ bottom lines, according to a

United Arab Shipping Company announced an increase in its emergency risk surcharges on containers moving through the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

DFDS, Europe’s largest short sea shipping company, returned to profit in 2010 on strong cargo growth on its core Baltic Sea routes.

Fesco, owner of Russia’s largest ocean container carrier, swung to a $456 million net profit in 2010 from a year-earlier net loss of $233 million, largely due to the gain on the sale of a stake

Cosco Container Lines announced a war-risk surcharge on all shipments from the Far East and the Indian subcontinent to ports in Libya.

The number of grain barges unloading at New Orleans in recent weeks has dropped 14 percent from average levels for this time of year, the U.S.

Kirby Corp., a major U.S.

United Arab Shipping Company expanded its Asia-Europe Service 1 with a direct call at Jebel Ali, a major transshipment hub in the Middle East.

NOL Group, parent of container ship operator APL, lost $10 million in the quarter ending March 31, as rising fuel prices and lower-than-expected demand ate up the strong revenue growth.

“K” Line appointed Jiro Asakura as its new CEO and president Friday, taking the place of Kenichi Kuroya, who resigned from that position.

CSAV’s container volume increased by 48 percent in the first four months of 2011, the Chilean carrier said Thursday.

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Hanjin Shipping lost $28 million on container operations in the first quarter, compared with $23 million a year earlier, as rising fuel costs offset a 19 percent increase in container revenue.

NYK will charter another four vessels with capacities of 13,000 20-foot equivalent units from OOCL under a new agreement between partners in the Grand Alliance service network.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM is in talks over the sale of a minority stake in Malta Freeport Terminals, one of the largest container transshipment hubs in the Mediterranean.

Hapag-Lloyd announced general rate increases effective July 1 for all cargoes and container types for the North Atlantic and Europe-Mexico shipping lanes.

Hapag-Lloyd fell to a $31.8 million loss after interest and taxes in the first quarter despite an improvement in operating results and the German ocean container carrier said it would seek new rate in

The members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association are postponing the scheduled increase in their bunker surcharge from Sunday, May 15 to Sunday, May 29, 2011.

Crowley and Seaboard Marine, members of the Florida-Bahamas Shipowners and Operators Association, plan to increase rates by $100 per 20-foot equivalent units.

OOCL is adding vessels to its two weekly services on its SBX network among Baltic ports this month.

Costamare, the acquisitive NYSE-listed container ship owner, ordered five vessels for long-term charter to Taiwanese ocean carrier Evergreen.

Maersk Line said it will increase rates on cargo shipped from India and Sri Lanka to East Africa.

A.P. Moller-Maersk boosted first quarter net profit 82 percent from a year ago to $1.2 billion, driven by higher container freight rates, growing shipping volume and rising oil prices.

Ocean container lines may take another year or longer to complete the process of dropping chassis from the U.S.

Maersk Line is increasing its emergency risk surcharge for transporting containers through the pirate-infested waters vof the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

Box Ships, a New York Stock Exchange-listed container ship owner based in Greece, took delivery on Tuesday of its third vessel and placed the ship with Chilean carrier CSAV.

Container ship owner-charterer Seaspan took delivery of its 60th ship, which has been chartered to “K” Line.

Ocean container carriers are levying record bunker fuel surcharges on shipping lanes between Asia and North Europe route, an industry analyst says.

Diana Containerships is planning a public offering of up to $172.5 million to pay down debt and build its fleet of container vessels.

The Indian Navy and Coast Guard Thursday rescued a Chinese merchant ship that had been attacked by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea.

Orient Overseas Container Line is raising rates on Asia-Europe trade lanes as part of what it calls a new “rate restoration program.”

United Arab Shipping received its first 13,500-TEU vessel, part of an order of nine so-called A13 vessels from South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries.

2003 — Horizon Lines formed as separate company when CSX sells its subsidiary to The Carlyle Group.

Maersk Line in April imposed general rate increases and reefer charges on several trades in reaction to what it says is a “severe shortage of reefer containers during the reefer season.”

Embattled Horizon Lines says it is facing a “challenging” year for its operations even after dodging a debt default and bankruptcy filing thanks to a timely assist from the Justice Departm

Japan&rsquo;s three largest ocean carriers expect lower profits this year because of higher fuel prices, uncertain bulk and car carrier markets, and the impact of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.<