Container lines

South Carolina’s seaports in Charleston and Georgetown stand to gain more than $12 million in additional funding for studies of channel deepening as a result of actions this week in the U.S.

A.P. Moller-Maersk is selling some of the trucking services provided by its European ferry subsidiary Norfolkline Logistics to DSV, Scandinavia’s largest trucking and logistic group.

Matson Navigation's top unionized ship officers could strike tomorrow if they do not reach agreement during scheduled talks with the shipping company today.

Chiquita Brands International said it does not expect the bankruptcy filing by Eastwind Maritime and many of its affiliates to adversely affect service to Chiquita's customers and the delivery of its

Karel Van Miert, the former European Union antitrust chief who played a key role in the demise of liner shipping conferences, died Monday after falling from a garden ladder at his home south of Brusse

Revenue of the biggest ocean container carriers plunged by 35 percent overall in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period in 2008 in what is shaping up to be the worst year in moder

Hapag-Lloyd, the German ocean container carrier, announced Wolfgang Freese will succeed Jim Newsome as President of Hapag-Lloyd (America) on September 1.

The directors of the South Carolina State Ports Authority voted unanimously to hire Jim Newsome III as its new president and chief executive officer at their monthly board meeting today.

Evergreen Line plans to withdraw 31 of its oldest ships from service and scrap many of them to help chip away at what its chairman, Chang Yung-fa, described as a “gruesome” excess of vessel capacity i

Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding thinks global container volumes may drop more than 10 percent and show no growth until next year.

CMA CGM said it will upgrade its CIMEX service between Asia and ports in the Middle East Gulf in July by replacing its two existing loops with one that features larger ships.

Evergreen Marine and Neptune Orient Lines are denying charges by prosecutors in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, that their employees were involved in falsifying data on cargo volumes passing through the port in or

A.P. Moller - Maersk Group promoted Jesper Cramon to head of group accounting, effective Aug. 1. He will replace Per Møller, who is retiring after 22 years with the Group.

The United Seamen's Service will present its 40th Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards to Donald Kurz, president and CEO of Philadelphia’s Keystone Shipping, and Ronald Widdows, group presiden

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APL’s container volume and average revenue per container fell during the most recent four week reporting period, its parent Neptune Orient Lines said Monday.

Maersk Line will increase rates on services from Asia to New Zealand.

Taiwanese prosecutors on Thursday indicted 46 executives from some of the world’s biggest liner shipping companies and the Port of Kaohsiung on charges of fraud for allegedly inflating cargo vol

Higher fuel costs prompted two lines to raise bunker surcharges.

Maersk Line is setting up a nationwide chassis pool in the United States that will make its fleet of chassis available for lease by drayage companies, ocean carriers, marine terminals and railroads.

With a large number of improvements, French ocean carrier CMA CGM is upgrading its Asia-Europe services, effective June 30.

Hamburg Süd will replace its agent in Poland with Safe Shipping, effective July 1.

CMA CGM added three calls for its three 1,100-TEU vessels in the CAGEMA service linking the East Coast to the Caribbean.

Net profit for state-owned Shipping Corp. of India fell almost 20 percent to $42.5 million in the January-March quarter of fiscal 2008-09 ended March 31.

A.P. Moller-Maersk is considering an additional 175 layoffs at its iconic Danish shipyard because of a lack of orders.

Saddled with contracts to build more ships than they need for the foreseeable future, shipping lines and charter ship owners are trying to cancel orders or at least delay delivery of new ships for as

Radoje “Rod” Vulovic, 67, a founder and chief operating officer of U.S. Ship Management, died Friday in Charlotte, N.C., after a prolonged illness, his business partners announced.

A severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru prompted port management to seek immediate intervention with Container Corp.

London -- European Union anti-trust regulators on June 12 opened an in-depth investigation of plans by DSV, Scandinavia's biggest trucker, and Danish shipping line Vesterhavet, to take joint control o

Horizon Lines said it will pay $20 million to settle class-action lawsuits that alleged antitrust violations in the Jones Act trade between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico.

Japanese carrier MOL has refuted a report by Reuters that it is considering “spinning off” it container division.

Maersk Line will increase rates on services from the Far East to Europe on July 1. In July and September, rates will go up on services between Europe and the Middle East and South Asia.

MOL said last week it is considering spinning off its container shipping division and selling it to a non-Japanese shipping line as one option to turn around the loss-making business.

Liner shipping executives are raising their glasses to American wine drinkers, for they make up about the only consumer market where demand has not plummeted for imports from the Mediterranean.

Grand Alliance members OOCL and Hapag Lloyd are replacing smaller vessels on the joint NWX service operated in cooperation with ZIM with two ships with a capacity of 8,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units

MOL (America), a subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, will move its North America headquarters from Concord, Calif., near the port of Oakland, to Lombard, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.

The A.P. Moller-Maersk Group will merge its subsidiaries Maersk Logistics, Maersk Customs Services and Damco into one company Sept.

As morning broke over the Gulf of Aden June 1, a white skiff sped toward a commercial ship en route off the East African Coast.

Maersk Line launched a new container service, the Ecuador-Banana-Express (ECUBEX), effective June 1.

Ocean carrier APL on Wednesday launched a weekly direct container shipping service between Vietnam and the United States.