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Container volumes at West Coast ports followed an upward trend in April, with most of the ports reporting increases in imports and exports.

With vessel capacity tightening and demand increasing on the trans-Atlantic, OOCL Thursday announced it will increase freight rates in both directions starting July 1.

Asian economies are leading the recovery of international container trade volume, but strong growth across the region could see pressure on freight infrastructure re-emerge, a senior executive of cont

The world’s top container lines lost an average of $1,500 per 20-foot equivalent unit of fleet capacity while racking up an estimated $15 billion in operating losses last year, AXS-Alphaliner re

Net profit for Transport Corp. of India surged 52 percent from a year earlier to $9.3 million in fiscal 2009-10 ended March 31, despite an 11 percent increase in operating expenses.

Antwerp –The port of Antwerp will hold a breakbulk “summit” next month aimed at boosting its presence in the general cargo sector following a significant decline in traffic in the pa

Exports of U.S. steel mill products jumped 29.2 percent in March from February, according to U.S. Government data.

The May 5 hearing by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure into the Port of Los Angeles' clean-trucks program may spawn yet another investigation of the program, this one dealing wi

Oil spill-fighting equipment from Singapore, China and the UK and a team of salvage specialists from the Netherlands, all on aircraft charters coordinated by UK-based Chapman Freeborn, arrived in New

A federal judge in Delaware dismissed a shareholder suit that accused Horizon Lines and six current or former senior officers of misleading investors about a price-fixing conspiracy in the U.S.

Panalpina expects to more than double its shipments with food processing giant Cargill under a large new contract the forwarder announced Wednesday.

A balance of supporters and opponents of a proposed rule that could change the way non-vessel-operating common carriers do business will have their say before the Federal Maritime Commission on May 24

Ocean carriers operating to and from India plan to seek general rate increases aimed at taking advantage of surging demand on major trade lanes.

ANTWERP -- Freight rates for breakbulk and heavy lift cargoes still haven't bottomed out and aren't likely to recover until 2015 at the earliest, a leading industry executive said.

APL will join the INTTRA e-commerce portal, giving the platform important new reach in the ocean shipping world, the companies announced Tuesday.

The Port of Seattle’s import container traffic soared 70 percent in April over the same month a year ago, helping push overall volume at the port to its highest levels since 2008.

Economists are questioning how long U.S. consumers can maintain their current spending pace in the face of high unemployment, stagnant housing prices and reduced access to credit.

The embattled euro is poised to drop further but the economic impact on North American economies appears to be limited, economists from IHS Global Insight said.

Safmarine plans to launch its first direct, fully-containerized service between the Far East, the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa next month.

Charleston’s container volume jumped 28.5 percent in April over the same month last year, marking the fourth straight month of double-digit increases, the South Carolina State Ports Authority re

The watershed Los Angeles clean-truck lawsuit is one step closer to conclusion, with the port stating in its closing arguments that it is exempt from federal pre-emption law because it is a market par

Overall container volume at Germany’s Port of Hamburg slipped 4 percent to 1.8 million 20-foot equivalent units in the first quarter, but loaded containers posted a 1.6 percent increase.

The container volume handled by Georgia’s ports jumped by 25.6 percent in April, making five months in a row that they recorded double-digit growth.

DP World India took delivery of six rubber-tired gantry cranes that are to be installed at its International Container Transshipment Terminal, the country’s first deep-water transshipment facili

The International Register of Shipping opened an office in Singapore as part of its strategy to expand its worldwide presence.

One by one, the major shipping lines pushed to the brink of bankruptcy have received financial infusions enabling them to survive.

Ports on the Great Lakes, which traditionally handle dry and liquid bulk, breakbulk and project cargo, are looking at a future with containers.

At first blush, it makes sense that start-up carrier The Containership Co. chose the new Port of Taicang as its home base in China, but CEO Jakob Tolstrup-Moller said it was the other way around.

Nearly a month after an explosion destroyed the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon deep-sea drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, oil was still gushing from two leaks in the rig’s shattered well hous

CMA CGM will add calls at Mobile, Ala., and Pusan, Korea, to its Asia-Gulf of Mexico service, effective May 20, the company announced Friday.

Retailers, motor carriers and environmentalists have joined forces in the Southeast to develop a clean-air initiative to reduce harmful emissions from harbor trucks.

Neptune Orient Lines, Singapore-based parent of ocean container carrier APL, narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $98 million from $245 million a year earlier and said trends point to a return to pr

The Port of Savannah is using a modified silt suspension system to maintain a depth of 48 feet at four of its Garden City Terminal berths and to increase oxygen levels in the river.

The Port of Felixstowe reduced its carbon emissions 8.3 percent in 2009 compared with the previous year, the port announced in its annual Environmental Report.

HHLA, Hamburg's biggest stevedore, reported first quarter profit and revenue shrunk from a year ago but said container traffic is picking up.

International Container Terminal Services Inc. Wednesday signed a 25-year lease with the Port of Portland to operate the container and breakbulk facility at Terminal 6.

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, which last year postponed the bidding process for the design and construction of a new container terminal in the former Philadelphia Navy Yard, is again seeki

CMA CGM, building on a $270 million profit the carrier showed in the first quarter, expects to earn $1.8 billion on its operations for the year as a whole, according to Philippe Soulie, CEO of the Fre

Maersk Line is maintaining “tight management” of its vessel capacity despite rising cargo volume and rates, parent company A.P. Moller-Maersk said.

The Maersk Mathilde called at a port near Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday, as Maersk Line launched its new direct TP6 service between Vietnam and the U.S.