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Container lessor Textainer Group Holdings Ltd.

Forwarder and heavy transport provider Magdenli Transport and Trade recently handled out-of-gauge component moves for several Turkish wind and natural gas projects using a new 500-ton-capacity mobile

DHL launched a direct less-than-container-load service connecting Cochin, India, to Europe, North America and other markets via the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Zim Integrated Shipping Services, seeking to improve a balance sheet hit hard by the global trade downturn, is in negotiations to sell unspecified holdings in two non-Israeli companies, according to a

Trailer Bridge has won dismissal from a civil class-action lawsuit alleging antitrust violations by carriers in the U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico trade.

The spot rate for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles jumped to $2,189 per FEU in the week ended May 3, according to data collected by Drewry Shipping Consultants.

CMA CGM, which has been unable to complete negotiations with a consortium of lenders to restructure $7 billion in debt, is considering a public listing of its stock as part of a package of measures ai

Ocean container carriers could start ordering new ships within 12 months, driven by a rapidly shrinking order book and an improving global trade outlook.

The Port of Portland has reached a tentative lease agreement with International Container Terminal Services Inc. to operate its container and breakbulk facility at Terminal 6.

The tonnage of container traffic handled by the Port of Montreal increased by 11.1 percent for the first three months of the year, to 2,927,394 metric tons from 2,636,080 metric tons in the same quart

The Containership Company, the newest entrant in the trans-Pacific trade, began its service on a promising note as the Taicang Dragon arrived at the TraPac terminal at the Port of Los Angeles with 77

The biggest short-term economic impact from the Gulf Coast oil spill would be if it disrupts shipping, said IHS Global Insight.

At a congressional hearing Wednesday morning on harbor trucking in southern California, carriers and shippers will be watching closely to see if lawmakers warm to the idea of giving local authorities

Ocean carriers on routes out of India are raising rates as demand picks up.

To handle recovering volumes in the trade between Asia, Mexico and the West Coast of South America, Germany’s Hamburg Sud and Chilean carrier CCNI plan to restore vessel capacity to the levels o

OOCL will launch an intra-Asia service on May 5 linking China with Thailand and Vietnam in response to increasing demand in the region.

CMA CGM, the financially troubled French ocean container carrier, booked a $1.4 billion net loss in 2009 but returned to profit in the final quarter of the year.

Hamburg Sud and its Brazilian affiliate Alianca said Monday they plan to charge shippers a general rate increase of $461.41 per 20-foot equivalent unit on June 1 for all cargo moving from Europe to po

That year, exporters in most sectors saw their foreign markets expand, enjoyed a weakening dollar and easy trade finance, and in general had little trouble with transportation and logistics.

Like cardiologists looking for signs of life in emergency room patients, container volumes depicted in the inaugural ranking of The Journal of Commerce Top 25 North American Container Ports show only

Ask importers their top concern this year as they wrapped up service contract negotiations with ocean carriers in the eastbound Asia-to-U.S.

A global shortage of ocean containers is exacerbating the difficulty U.S. exporters face in finding empty boxes for shipments from the Midwest and other locations away from import centers.

The four major South Atlantic ports are in a race against time and, to some extent, each other to prepare for the bigger ships that will start coming to the East Coast from Asia after the Panama Canal

Economists at the International Monetary Fund are optimistic about the global economy, saying it will grow 4.2 percent in 2010.

Maersk Line plans to resume its weekly seasonal reefer calls at the Port of Halifax on May 18 with the arrival of the Maersk Palermo on the revised rotation of the TA4 trans-Atlantic service.

The Shipping Corporation of India will seek a general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe, the third GRI this year.

The Halifax Port Authority said it reached agreement with its two main container terminal operators, Cerescorp and Halterm, on setting performance standards designed to increase the speed of the impor

U.S.

Glass and ceramics manufacturer Corning said a rebound in global auto sales caught the company with such tight inventories that during the first quarter the company had to send its emissions-control f

Mediterranean Shipping Company will implement a new general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe.

Steel volume is showing some signs of improvement, Port of Houston CEO Alec Dreyer said during his monthly financial report to the Board of Commissioners.

A.P. Moller-Maersk agreed to sell its stake in the Yantian container terminal in China to a subsidiary of China's COSCO Pacific for $520 million, the company said Thursday.

The port and city of Los Angeles rested their case after testimony Wednesday in the clean-trucks suit brought by the American Trucking Associations. Judge Christina A.

Drewry Shipping Consultants appointed Philip Damas a director of the company, with responsibility for developing Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, the specialist supply chain consulting practice within th

PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions raised its forecast for U.S.

Federal Maritime Commissioner Rebecca Dye will be in New York May 11-13 to conduct interviews for her fact-finding mission on vessel and equipment capacity.

China’s Cosco Group reported a loss of $1.1 billion for 2009 as the weak economy hammered the company’s container, dry bulk and terminal businesses.

The port of Antwerp's bid to revive its breakbulk business suffered a serious setback with the loss of a 750,000 metric tons-a-year contract.

The Panama Canal Authority will skip any toll increases this year and proposes to overhaul its toll structure starting Jan. 1, 2011.

Steel imports to the United States in March rose 24.5 percent from February and 27.9 percent from March 2009, according to preliminary statistics from the American Institute for International Steel.