Container lines

One of APM Terminals’ top executives called for greater cooperation between terminal operators and their shipping line customers in “this new environment of slower growth and reduced reven

Evergreen Line on Wednesday announced it will increase freight rates Dec.

Pirates for a second time attacked the Maersk Alabama early Wednesday morning but failed to board it while the U.S.-flag container ship was steaming 500 nautical miles off the northeast coast of Somal

Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding is predicting that the container market will return to growth next year and that freight rates may rise as carriers take steps to cut vessel overcapacity.

China Shipping Container Lines and United Arab Shipping entered slot-swap arrangements in the Asia-Middle East trades, starting at the end of this month.

Freight rates in the trans-Pacific will go up in 2010 even though supply-demand economics will most likely not be favorable for ocean carriers, a senior carrier executive said Monday.

The Indamex service, a vessel-sharing agreement between Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Line and OOCL that connects the Indian sub-continent and Eastern Mediterranean with the U.S.

The port of Amsterdam risks disappearing from Europe's ocean container map, as its sole box terminal is about to lose its last major liner shipping service.

Total Terminals International, which operates terminals in Long Beach, Oakland and Seattle, said Monday that Maersk Line will start calling its Oakland terminal with two of its trans-Pacific services

Hanjin Shipping’s quarterly net loss deepened to $338 million in the third quarter ended Sept.

OOCL joined other major carriers in a general rate increase that will apply to all dry shipments from the United States to Hong Kong, Macau and South China.

CMA CGM announced Nov. 12 a general rate increase on freight from the United States and Canada to Australia and New Zealand.

Hamburg Sud christened the fifth new ship in a series of identical 5,900-TEU container ships in Antwerp Thursday, naming it the “Rio Bravo.”

Danish shipping giant A.P.

NYK said Thursday it would raise up to $1.58 billion through a public equity offering to strengthen its balance sheet as it hastens reforms to cope with a global shipping slump.

Charter shipowner Danaos Corp. saw its profit drop by 41.4 percent in the third quarter ended Sept.

Hanjin Shipping petitioned the Federal Maritime Commission to allow it to submit a “universal notice” of its pending corporate reorganization into two separate units instead of having to s

Emirates Shipping Line will use GT Nexus as the portal to connect its customers with its freight booking systems through the Internet, the technology company announced Wednesday.

Grand Alliance partners Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Line and OOCL said Wednesday they will reduce their Asia-Europe services during the winter from four loops to three starting from Dec. 28.

Trailer Bridge’s profit soared to $1.7 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 from $34,000 in the same quarter last year.

A unique “fuel switching” test by a Maersk Line container ship as it plies the Gulf of Mexico will determine how much air pollution can be cut when the ship changes to a cleaner-burning fu

Birdsall, Inc., a subsidiary of Nicor and parent company of Tropical Shipping, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Miami-based Deluxe Freight. Terms of the agreement were not announced.

CMA CGM, facing economic troubles that threaten the carrier's financial stability, took delivery Tuesday of one of the world's largest container ships, a 13,300-TEU behemoth that will become the compa

Global Ship Lease, a containership charter owner listed on the New York Stock Exchange, posted a net loss of $3.9 million in the third quarter ended Sept.

The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement will accept Maersk Line back into its fold effective Dec. 24, the carrier discussion group said in a statement.

Rickmers Maritime Trust, a Singapore-based charter ship owner, was unable to take delivery of a vessel it had ordered for charter to Hanjin Shipping in the third quarter because of financing troubles

NOL, the Singapore-base parent of APL, said that container volume and yield per container both increased in the four-week period from Sept. 18 to Oct. 16 for the second monthly gain in a row.

Maersk Line is reapplying for membership in the Trans-Pacific Stabilization Agreement, which has been trying for two years to get it to rejoin the discussion agreement.

Neptune Orient Lines is relocating its administration and service center in China to the western city of Chongqing.

OOCL christened the OOCL Dalian on Thursday, the tenth Panamax vessel in its line of 16 4,500-TEU ships ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries at its Geoje Shipyard in South Korea.

OOCL on Friday announced a peak season surcharge on shipments of westbound refrigerated cargo from Europe to Montreal.

Evergreen Line said Thursday it is scaling down its operating fleet and rationalizing its services in an effort to cope with market conditions.

“K” Line is buying a minority stake in a ship repair yard on China’s Zhoushan Islands that will give it access to facilities for very large container ships.

Atlantic Container Line will raise rates on the North Atlantic in two stages over the next three months. The first phase will begin Dec. 1 and the second on Feb. 1, ACL said.

The Southern Africa Europe Container Service Lines will introduce an additional container service to accommodate primarily the seasonal increase in refrigerated exports from South Africa to Europe dur

Zim Integrated Shipping Services said its parent Israel Corp.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said Monday it will add calls at Norfolk to the revised port rotation of its Golden Gate Service from Asia via the Suez Canal.

Evergreen Marine Corp.

Mediterranean Shipping Company posted a two-stage general rate increase on Monday for cargos imported from ports in North Europe and the Mediterranean to the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Ocean container carriers seeking extra cargoes are failing to grab market share from conventional refrigerated vessels despite "desperate marketing and pricing tactics," a leading reefer ope