Container lines

Shippers in the Northeast were hit by service delays, but ocean, truck and air cargo operators said operations were returning to normal after a blizzard Sunday brought the region nearly to a

OOCL on Thursday announced increases in terminal handling charges for China mainland traffic to and from Australia, effective Jan. 3.

Maersk Line said it will raise ocean freight rates from the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent to northern Europe and the Mediterranean twice during the first quarter of 2011.

Hainan P O Shipping expanded its trans-Pacific service to include a weekly call at the Port of Oakland.

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index fell to its lowest level since the start of the year in the week ending Dec.

CMA CGM announced an emergency congestion surcharge of $82 per 20-foot container on services between Europe and Port Botany in Sydney, Australia, effective Jan. 15, 2011.

The first two gantry cranes arrived Dec.

Ocean carriers aren’t waiting for the seasonal downturn in demand to take a breather in the container ship charter market.

Nine months after launching a high-profile investigation into pricing and service disputes between shippers and carriers that boiled over last spring, the Federal Maritime Commission remedy appears to

The first ship in Horizon Lines’ new China-to-U.S. service departed Shanghai for Los Angeles.

A.P. Moller - Maersk named APM Terminals CEO Kim Fejfer to the executive board, a move the company said signaled the importance of terminal business to the group and its global shipping operations.

Mediterranean Shipping Company is extending its California Express service linking Italy and Spain with the U.S. West Coast to include calls in the Pacific Northwest.

OOCL said it contracted with Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding on Dec. 14 for construction of two new container ships with capacities of 8,888 20-foot-equivalent container units.

Three U.S.-Puerto Rico carriers have until Feb.

Maersk Line appointed Bjarne Foldager as its new country manager for Malaysia and Singapore.

Hanjin Shipping plans to outsource the export documentation function now performed in four North American service centers to a new documentation center in Port Kelang, Malaysia, by next May.

Crowley Liner Services plans to expand its container operations at Port Everglades under a new 10-year lease on its container terminal that calls for additional acreage and increased container guarant

Maersk Line plans to operate an ad-hoc direct sailing from India’s Port of Chennai to Jebel Ali, a major transshipment hub in the Middle East.

Like several other carriers, OOCL is raising freight rates on shipments out of China and the Far East next month in what is ordinarily the slack winter season.

CSAV is upgrading the size of its Asia-Atlantic Express Service (Asax) between the Far East and the East Coast of South America starting later this month.

Shipbuilders postponed delivery to OOCL of four new containerships partly because of production delays.

Hapag-Lloyd swung to an operating profit of $631 million in fiscal 2009/10, from a year earlier loss of $875 million, as cargo volume and freight rates increased, and the company cut costs.

Ocean carriers are chasing market share on the key Asia-Europe container trade lane by increasing capacity despite the steep slide in freight rates in recent months, an analyst said.

Hapag-Lloyd ordered four container ships of 13,200 20-foot equivalent units capacity from Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Somali pirates Saturday released a bulk cargo vessel and its crew.

CSAV said Monday it placed a firm order for two 8,000 container ships with capacities of 8,000 20-foot-equivalent container units.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services said it completed the sale of its 8 percent stake in a joint venture that plans to build and operate about 18 rail freight terminals in China.

The New World Alliance plans to introduce its first direct container ship service from Vietnam to North Europe in January, a significant addition to Vietnam's new Cai Mep International Terminal.

The peak season is already here in the westbound trans-Pacific, and shippers and carriers are feeling strains in the market even as confidence in shipping volume grows.

The JoC’s rankings of the Top 40 Container Lines by import and export volumes for the first nine months of 2010 provides a s

December is usually when carriers in eastbound Pacific lanes suspend services and lower freight rates for the winter slack season, but in a year that has been anything but usual, the calendar is provi

A major shipper group is decrying the Federal Maritime Commission’s lack of action on a nine-month investigation into ocean carrier practices on the Pacific and says it may take legal action to

Maersk Line said it is struggling to connect exports via terminals in India’s Port of Chennai because of severe port congestion and a sudden shortage of container trucks that is crippling outbound car

Independent Container Line announced a restructuring of its U.S. sales team with the appointment of new vice presidents of sales for the northern and southern regions.

The Jacksonville Port Authority authorized its executive director to negotiate for a contract to build a new container terminal for Hanjin Shipping.

Container ship charter rates are falling as ocean carriers sit out the seasonally slack fourth quarter and reassess their capacity requirements amid uncertainty over cargo volumes and freight rates go

Hanjin Shipping announced a series of rate increases Wednesday for Asia-Europe services starting Jan.

OOCL may place an order for huge container ships, each of which would have almost 50 percent more capacity than any ship in its fleet, a senior executive told a Hong Kong newspaper.

A federal judge delayed a ruling on the approval of a $52.25 million class-action antitrust settlement by U.S.-Puerto Rico carriers until he decides on a payment plan for plaintiffs’ lawyers in

CSAV is upgrading its service between the west coast of South America and the U.S.