Container lines

It may not seem like it, but there has been an upward trend in Asia-Europe freight rates since the March lows.

The world’s No. 2 container maker, slumped to a loss in the first half of 2016.

U.S. maritime regulators have more questions for the Ocean Alliance.

A group of Asia-based container lines are teaming up to offer new joint services on the intra-Asia trade.

It is hard to believe that Venezuela’s container import business could get any worse — but it has done just that in 2016.

Hanjin Shipping on Thursday submitted its plan to boost liquidity to the Korea Development Bank.

APL’s tie-up with CMA CGM has allowed the Singapore liner to re-enter the India-Europe trade lane.

The Aotea Maersk will become the largest container ship ever to visit New Zealand when it calls at Tauranga on Oct. 4.

Investigators have collected 26 hours of information from the voyage data recorder of El Faro.

Tighter global emission standards on container ships are giving birth to a new vessel type designed specifically to ply the Irish Sea.

Many U.S. exporters are still confused about how to meet Chinese rules aimed at preventing the spread of the Zika virus.

Commercial shipping's opportunities to do business with Cuba are unlikely to significantly improve until at least February 2018.

Cheaper production and material costs and sagging demand have contributed to the decline.

China's Zhuhai port is banking on increased trade with Pakistan and South America to help it more than double container traffic.

Hapag-Lloyd revealed that the United Arab Shipping Company booked a loss in 2015 and is still losing money ahead of a shareholders’ meeting to clear the way for a merger.

Hutchison Port Holdings expects to open a second container terminal in Pakistan by October.

Hanjin Shipping will submit a plan to raise liquidity to its largest creditor, the Korea Development Bank, on Thursday.

Shipping Corporation of India and Shreyas Shipping and Logistics could not increase profits in the first fiscal quarter as they teamed up to corner coastal demand.

No surprises as a weak October encourages G6 to withdraw sailings on major east-west trades.

ACL expects its new ships to provide an edge.

The idle container ship fleet is back to more than 1 million 20-foot-equivalent units after a brief dip in July.

DFDS raised its full-year outlook and increased profit following a strong second quarter at a time other transportation companies have posted losses or downgraded their full-year outlooks.

The new CC1-CC2 was made from the merging of two Asia-North America West Coast Central China products into a new Central China Combo service.

Don’t expect any significant increase in container freight rates next year.

Hanjin and HMM’s U.S. imports and exports were down in the first half compared with the same period a year ago despite general growth in both.

Trans-Pacific spot rates in both directions fell for third straight week.

Pacific International Lines has signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s largest public port operator and a mainland construction giant to develop new markets.

Strikes and slowdowns by Brazilian customs officers are causing chaos and losses for shippers and shipping lines.

Asia-Europe spot rates fell for the fourth consecutive week, with not enough peak season demand to lift prices.

The Chinese logistics giant Sinotrans Shipping posted a loss for the first half of 2016, blaming overcapacity and a depressed international shipping market.

The dramatic descent of spot prices to five-year lows in both directions on the trans-Atlantic shipping route has sparked questions about how low the price can go, and if the once sleepy, stable route has changed.

Taiwan’s Wan Hai Lines is the latest intra-Asia specialist to report profit and revenue declines in the first half.

Maersk will announce the results of its ongoing strategic and structural review of group operations at the end of September.

Regional Container Lines blamed losses in the second quarter on overcapacity in the intra-Asia market.

Chinese authorities have provided some guidance on how U.S. exporters need to show that they have made their shipments mosquito-free.

Hanjin Shipping, the biggest of South Korea’s shipping outfits, swung to a loss in the second quarter.

South Korea’s second-largest shipping line posted an overall net profit in the second quarter.

Container shipping revenue in 2016 is heading for levels not seen since 2009.

Trans-Pacific spot rates slipped again this week as weak demand and overcapacity keep them under downward pressure.

Rickmers Group sank deep into the red in the first half.