Container lines

Container volumes at California’s ports increased in July over the same month last year, with imports leading the way.

Evergreen Marine, operator of the world's fourth-largest container carrier by capacity, swung to a profit of $129 million in the second quarter ended June 30 from $62.2 million loss a year earlier.

Neptune Orient Lines said it finalized an order on Monday to build two new container ships with capacities of 10,700 20-foot-equivalent units that will be delivered in 2012.

CMA CGM took delivery on Monday morning in South Korea of the CMA CGM Corte Real, a very large container ship with a capacity of 13,830 20-foot equivalent units that is the third in a series of eight

Container volume at APL grew 18 percent in the four weeks ending July 23 from the same period last year as rising rates pushed revenue per 40-foot container up 39 percent, the shipping subsidiary

The Brussels-based organization that lobbied the European Union on behalf of liner shipping companies ceased those efforts last month but is staying open as a trade association.

APL can’t get vessels back into the water fast enough.

Orient Overseas Container Line and Hanjin Shipping returned to profitability in the second quarter and say they’re cautiously optimistic the good times will continue.

After roaring out of the gate at the beginning of the year with container ships sailing full in both directions and rates more than doubling over the last year, demand in the trans-Atlantic trades is

Hapag-Lloyd on Friday said it stopped accepting hazardous cargo bookings to and from India's Port of Mumbai, effective immediately.

India's two biggest ports, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port and Mumbai Port, conducted limited operations on Friday.

OOCL is buying slots on a new weekly service between Antwerp and New York that Hapag-Lloyd will start in September.

Chile's CSAV posted $69 million in second quarter profit and said it finished the first half of the year with a $36.8 million net profit, compared with a $402 million loss in the first fix months of 2

India's biggest container port resumed partial operations on Thursday, ending the shutdown caused by the collision of two ships in its main channel last Saturday.

Icelandic carrier Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics said it will increase the frequency of its new Oslofjord service to weekly from biweekly at the end of August to accommodate demand for refrige

Hapag-Lloyd earned record second-quarter operating profit as the German ship line’s volume rose 7.8 percent and average per-container rates jumped 29.9 percent.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will expand its India-Subcontinent-Europe Service, operated jointly with the Shipping Corporation of India, with a direct call at India’s Port of Pipavav, effectiv

The oil leak in the hull of the crippled container ship MSC Chitra was finally plugged on Tuesday, but only after 800 metric tons spilled into the Mumbai harbor channel.

NYK Line North America, which had announced it would stop providing chassis in Oakland, Calif. as of Sept. 1, said it will postpone the action.

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India’s two biggest ports, the Port of Mumbai and the Jawaharlal Nehru Port, are likely to be shut for at least a week, as their main channel remains blocked by containers that fell off a ship a

Hamburg Sud will impose a general rate increase on Sept. 1 on all cargo moving from the West Coasts of the U.S. and Canada to Europe.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Mumbai, India’s busiest container port, closed Monday morning following a collision between two vessels on Saturday that left hundreds of containers floating in the

Mediterranean Shipping Company and the Shipping Corporation of India formed a vessel sharing agreement to launch a direct container service linking the Indian subcontinent and the Mediterranean, start

A rebound in container volume and rates has NYK Line, MOL and “K” Line profitable again and more optimistic about the months ahead.

Evergreen Line, OOCL and Dubai-based Simatech Shipping will launch joint liner service beginning Aug. 20 connecting Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.

Neptune Orient Lines, the parent of container carrier APL, reported a second quarter net profit of US$100 million, compared with a net loss of $146 million a year earlier, as revenue jumped 53 percent

This year’s peak season for containerized imports may have topped out in July as retailers shipped early to avoid delays, according to the Global Port Tracker report by the National Retail Feder

Horizon Lines appointed Wing Lam as its owner representative and Ben Line Agencies as its general agent to support the carrier's ongoing sales and operations in Shanghai and Ningbo, China.

Seaspan reported a second quarter loss because of a change in the fair value of its financial instruments, but the container ship owner said it is expanding its fleet to meet carriers’ rising de

Hanjin Shipping returned to profitability in the second quarter as its container volume jumped 16.7 percent and freight rates rose.

Orient Overseas International Ltd., parent of Orient Overseas Container Line, reported after-tax profit of $287.3 million from continuing operations in the first half of 2010 as economic recovery push

TRAC Intermodal said Tuesday it will start renting chassis to port truckers on a short-to-medium term basis.

Hapag-Lloyd will launch an Atlantic Express Shuttle between North Europe and the East Coast of North America, effective Sept. 25.

Safmarine will add a direct container service between the Far East and West Africa via South Africa on Aug. 12. The FEW3 service will be operated jointly with parent company Maersk Line.

Caribbean carrier Tropical Shipping’s second-quarter operating income rose to $4.2 million from $2.5 million a year earlier as volume and rates increased, parent company Nicor said.

Spot prices for trans-Pacific ocean container shipping jumped 8.2 percent in the week ending Aug.

Maersk Line denied Tuesday that it was in talks with shipyards to order 10 giant container ships, but said it was only monitoring the capacity situation at yards.

Maersk Line Ltd., the U.S.-flag carrier of Denmark’s Maersk Line, said it paid a $3.1 million fine to the U.S.