Container lines

Container traffic at the Port of Montreal grew 4.5 percent in the first quarter year-over-year on strong demand from the U.S. Midwest and Canada, and double-digit growth in Mediterranean trade.

Wal-Mart remained the No. 1 importer of containerized ocean cargo in the latest annual ranking of The Journal of Commerce Top 100 U.S.

The APL Singapore flipped a switch on Friday at the Port of Oakland that made it the first ship there to “cold-iron” and use shore-side electric power, extending a major maritime environme

America Chung Nam, the sister company and supplier of wastepaper to China’s largest containerboard manufacturer, was the largest American exporter of containerized goods by volume

Maersk Line is pulling out of Gioia Tauro, dealing a major blow to the troubled southern Italian port’s role as the Mediterranean’s leading ocean container transshipment hub.

Hamburg Sud and Maersk Line plan once again to bring back a second sling to their joint Asia – South Africa/South America East Coast Service, which they cut back to one sling for the 2010-2011 s

CMA CGM is said to be negotiating the sale of a 49 percent stake in its Malta container terminal to Turkey’s Yildirim Group, a minority shareholder in the French ocean carrier.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services announced a sharply lower first quarter operating loss of $24 million against $83 million a year ago, driven by higher freight rates and increased cargo volumes.

Matson Navigation says the trans-Pacific service the carrier began five years ago has proven a successful expansion beyond Matson’s comfortable Jones Act trade and that it will maintain its comm

U.S. domestic maritime carriers must continually remind Congress of the ongoing benefits of the Jones Act protections for the business, Matson Navigation President

The sale of TUI's stake in Hapag-Lloyd is delayed as bidders take extra time to go through the books at the container shipping group, according two people familiar with the matter who were quoted by R

Maersk Line said Wednesday it is postponing by a month the implementation of the general rate increase that it planned to apply June 1 on Asia-North Europe trade lanes.

CMA CGM will enlarge the capacity of three ships on order from 13,800 20-foot equivalent units to 16,000 TEUs, according to the carrier.

Hapag-Lloyd said it will apply a port congestion surcharge on all containerized cargo moving from Asia and Oceania to Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Costamare’s first quarter profit slipped 28 percent to $17.9 million from $24.7 million a year ago, but the NYSE-listed container ship owner said it is

Deliveries of container ships are set to hit a record high in 2013, driven by a surge of orders in the past year that has revived fears of overcapacity in container shipping markets, according to ship

Japanese logistics operator Sumitomo Warehouse Co. says it is in advanced negotiations to acquire Weyerhauser’s wholly-owned ocean vessel subsidiary, Westwood Shipping Lines.

“K” Line announced a series of changes in the responsibilities of its executive management team at its board meeting on May 20.

OOCL is changing the leadership at the container line’s trade management group effective June 13.

Maersk Line, extending its environmental initiatives to equipment, will phase out the purchase of containers with floors made of uncertified tropical hardwood this year in a bid to reduce demand for i

CMA CGM will add a call at Greece’s Port of Piraeus this month to its Epic service from North Europe to the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.

Evergreen Group ordered 10 new containerships with capacities of 8,000 20-foot equivalent units from China Shipbuilding Corp.

Interlake Steamship Co. says it will christen one of its vessels in honor of Rep. James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., the former chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure.

CSAV, CMA CGM and China Shipping are teaming up to launch a new weekly service with two slings between the East Coast of South America, South Africa and Asia.

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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