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MOL in January will increase ocean freight rates in two phases for all refrigerated cargo exported from the United States and Canada to Asia, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

Marine terminal and shipping industry executives applauded the latest relief program that will save Port of Los Angeles tenants about $25.7 million in the coming year.

Hapag-Lloyd co-owner TUI on Monday rejected the latest bid by its biggest shareholder John Fredriksen, the Norwegian shipping tycoon, for a seat on the TUI supervisory board.

The year long decline in Asia-Europe container traffic is slowing and freight rates are rising, according to the latest figures from ocean carriers.

Many of the European banks that traditionally have financed shipbuilding are quitting the business, leaving a troubling gap in the financial underpinnings of the business.

Maersk Line is gaining traction with its U.S. chassis pool, and momentum is building for a new structure to manage the critical intermodal truck equipment across the country.

The Grand Alliance ocean container shipping venture will add Vietnam to its Asia East Coast Express service next month, joining the rapid buildup of international transportation connections to the cou

While private companies and government researchers look at ways to efficiently scan ocean cargo containers, the National Academy of Sciences is studying whether the Department of Energy, which deploys

There is a serious delay at the container screening line.

The delivery of one out of every five containerships due for delivery during the last three months was postponed, said the Baltic and International Maritime Council, a shipping association based in De

The U.S. arm of Maersk Line is extending its Direct ChassisLink program to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Rochester, Worcester, and Pittsburgh as of Feb. 1 of next year.

Rickmers-Linie, the Hamburg-based breakbulk, heavy-lift and project cargo specialist, appointed Zurich-based Brunoni SA as its Swiss agent, effective Jan. 1.

The liner shipping industry generated $436.6 billion in direct and indirect benefits to the world economy in 2007 and provided 13.5 million jobs, according to a new study commissioned by the World Shi

Containerized exports at the Port of Seattle increased 51.4 percent in October over the same month last year, pushing the Pacific Northwest port to its busiest month since 2007.

Maersk Line is launching the first scheduled container service to call at Turbo, Colombia's main banana export port.

The Grand Alliance is losing one of its four carrier members, MISC Berhad (Malaysia), which said Wednesday it is withdrawing from the group as of Jan. 1.

The French Port of Marseilles Fos will freeze its port tariffs through 2010 to support customers “in a strained economic context” and to enhance the port’s competitiveness, the port

The slowdown in global trade took its toll of Hong Kong&rsquo;s container traffic in the third quarter, according to the latest figures released by Hong Kong&rsquo;s Census and Statistics Department.<

Global seaborne trade grew to 8.17 billion tons in 2008, which, though a record volume, represented a growth rate of only 3.6 percent, lower than in the previous year, the United Nations Conference on

The world container ship fleet grew at the slowest rate in 10 years in 2009 as nearly one out of eight vessels is laid-up.

BLG, the Bremen/Bremerhaven port company, said container traffic will close the year around 20 percent below the 2008 figure, and auto shipments will slump by 40 percent.

India&rsquo;s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru plans to set up a port-based export processing zone, a first-of-its-kind project in the country, the port trust said Tuesday.

First Ship Lease Trust pulled a planned $200 million note offering Dec. 7, citing the fallout from Dubai World's financial problems.

DHL launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting India&rsquo;s largest container port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Dubai.

Bahrain officially inaugurated its new Khalifa Bin Salman Port on Sunday in ceremonies attended by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

Deepening financial troubles may be triggering deep changes at CMA CGM and Zim Integrated Shipping Services.

Someday the &ldquo;sovereign&rdquo; states of shipping and aviation will join nations of the world in adopting an overall scheme to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Any news of a carrier&rsquo;s higher volume has a man-bites-dog quality these days.

Geoffrey Giovanetti keeps close tabs on the tippling tastes of American oenophiles. And as managing director of the Wine and Spirit Shippers Association, his business has been good this year.

International maritime shippers don&rsquo;t miss the congestion that accompanied the surge in import volume earlier this decade, but they&rsquo;re struggling to adjust supply chains to changes and cut

Is the worst over? It&rsquo;s starting to look that way for container shipping volume, if not for carriers.

Neptune Orient Lines said volume grew 23 percent in November compared to the same month a year ago at its container line APL but that pricing and demand also slipped from October.

DP World&rsquo;s planned container hub on the river Thames near London is facing renewed uncertainty amid reports of financing problems for the Dubai firm&rsquo;s flagship project.

In a continuing drumbeat of rate increases on its global services, Evergreen Line on Wednesday announced that it will boost rates on all cargoes and commodities including reefer and special equipment

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Customs and Border Protection intends to close its drawback office for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to an announcement Tuesday in the Federal Register. The agency set a Dec.

Port operations at Halifax, N.S., are feeling the impact of a locomotive engineers strike against Canadian National Railway.

Lloyd&rsquo;s Register Classification Society (China) teamed up with Shanghai Bestway Marine Engineering Design to develop a new fuel-efficient bulk carrier that can satisfy demands by shipowners and

Container traffic rose 5 percent at Marseilles in the first ten months of 2009 compared with a year ago even as France's biggest port suffered a double digit decline in overall cargo volume.

When the CMA CGM Christoph Colomb pushed out of a South Korean shipyard early this month, the massive vessel set several records for its scale, but nothing was quite as breathtaking to the trans