Container lines

Hapag-Lloyd will apply a general rate increase on all cargo moving on its services from the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East to South America East Coast.

Hamburg Sud plans to end its joint service with Zim Integrated Shipping Services from North Europe to Israel in October and launch its own independent service.

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru said operations at its three terminals improved considerably over the last two months.

Very large container ships -- with capacities of more than 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units -- made 70 calls during the first half of this year at Rotterdam, where they loaded and discharged an ave

Maersk Line signed a contract with Finland’s Wartsila Corporation to install Slow Steaming Upgrade kits on 34 of its large ocean container vessels.

MOL selected Descartes Systems to help manage its container division's EU Import Control System customs filings.

Singapore-based ocean carrier APL said it will apply a congestion surcharge on all containerized cargo shipped from the Middle East to the Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), India’s largest

A.P. Moller-Maersk completed the sale of its roll-on, roll-off freight shipping company Norfolkline to Danish shipping line DFDS on July 12.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM rejected a capital injection from Qatar Holding and will search further for outside investors.

CMA CGM christened its gigantic flagship CMA CGM Christophe Colomb in ceremonies in Le Havre July 12.

CMA CGM said it will extend its Black Pearl Service between ports on the East Coast of North America and the Caribbean to two new ports in Northern South America as of July 16.

Orient Overseas Container Line effective Aug. 1 will increase its freight rates by $250 per TEU on shipments from Southeast Asia to Australia.

OOCL said Friday that it will put a surcharge on all cargo moving through the Port of Montreal as of July 19 because “reduced water depth negatively affects the loadable capacity of each sailing

Hanjin Shipping is moving to identify and isolate the 5,900 containers it leases from container lessor Unitas to protect its customers against any disruption from its legal dispute with Sumitomo Mitsu

Maersk Line confirmed that it is postponing by two weeks the implementation of the increase in the peak season surcharge on Asia-Europe cargo that it announced on June 15.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM and APM Terminals, the Danish port operating company, traded stakes in container terminals in Dunkirk, France, and Mobile, Ala.

Hapag-Lloyd said Friday that Roland Kirch, a member of its executive board and director of development, markets and works, left the company at his own request on June 30.

Hapag-Lloyd will seek a general freight rate increase on all cargo moving on its services from the Indian subcontinent to Australia.

CMA CGM plans to gradually phase out providing chassis to truckers at terminals throughout the United States on a schedule starting on the East Coast in October and ending on the West Coast in March o

DHL launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting India’s largest container port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Los Angeles.

Chilean carrier CSAV will launch a weekly container ship service at the end of July to connect north and central China with South Africa.

Three major ocean carriers covering the trade to and from India plan to impose an emergency congestion surcharge on all import containers handled at the Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), the cou

A.P. Moller-Maersk raised its 2010 profit forecast, saying in a statement July 8 that an improvement at its ocean container carrier Maersk Line has been "greater than envisaged."

CMA CGM July 7 announced a series of rate hikes across its global liner network and confirmed a peak season surcharge on the Asia-North Europe route.

CMA CGM plans to reach agreement with new investors over a stake in the ocean container carrier by the end of July, the company said as it unveiled sharply higher first quarter profit and revenue.

TUI AG expects its 43.3 percent stake in Germany's biggest ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd to generate higher profit than initially forecast due to a "notable" recovery in global container shippin

OOCL on Tuesday named three senior managers to new positions as of Aug. 1.

The Shipping Corporation of India will apply a new general rate increase on cargo moving on its Indian subcontinent-Europe Service (ISES), effective July 11.

Ocean shipping container freight rates likely will return to levels reached before the global economic recession by the end of this year, according to Maersk Line.

Major shipping companies are warning the British government they may re-register vessels abroad due to new rules in the UK on pay for foreign workers.

Negotiators for striking office clerical workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach and their employers bargained all day Saturday but made little progress toward a new contract.

Wyatt Transfer, a drayage operator that serves the Virginia ports, has a problem most harbor trucking companies would have loved to have had last year: more business calls coming in than the company m

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is taking three big steps to prepare for the massive ships port officials expect to start sailing through the Panama Canal after its expansion is complete

The idea of abolishing ocean carriers’ antitrust immunity is riding a new wave in Congress as the outcry over tight capacity and equipment shortages in a stronger-than-expected recovery sustains

Negotiators for striking office clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and the attorney representing their employers set negotiations for Friday night in hopes of ending the walkout.

After a year that blew a $15 billion hole in their finances, container ship lines are taking tentative first steps on a long road back to financial stability.

CMA CGM took delivery of two new post-Panamax vessels in South Korean shipyards, the 6,500-TEU CMA CGM Lamartine and the 11,400-TEU CMA CGM Callisto.

The privately held U.S.

German shipowner Rickmers Group christened four container ships with nominal capacity of nearly 13,100 20-foot equivalent units Friday at a South Korean shipyard.

CMA CGM will seek a general rate increase on all westbound cargo moving on its EPIC Service from India to Europe and the Mediterranean, a third GRI this year.