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The European roll-on, roll-off industry is putting the brakes on a yearlong slide in cargo volumes and rates that stirred speculation of imminent bankruptcies.

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is rising slowly, according to the monthly Port Tracker report released Thursday by the National Retail Federation and IHS Global

Japan's trade surplus expanded nearly six-fold in September from a year earlier to the highest level in 18 months, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry on Thursday.

Container traffic in Antwerp fell 18.4 percent in the first nine months of the year from the same period in 2008, a significantly faster rate of decline than at its close rival Rotterdam.

Exports of steel from the United States increased in August by 13.1 percent over July, according to a report from the American Institute for International Steel.

SHENZHEN, CHINA -- The president of container line APL said despite recent growth in volume and rates, the ocean carrier industry faces far-reaching structural change unless shipping demand turns upwa

SHENZHEN, CHINA -- The head of J.P.

The officers and crew of the Maersk Alabama, who fought off a pirate attack earlier this year, will be presented with an Honored Seafarers plaque at the 40th annual United Seamen's Service Admiral of

The mayors of New York and Newark, N.J., surprised the trucking industry – as well as the bi-state port authority – by announcing on Sunday their support for a clean-trucks program that wo

The Port of Corpus Christi’s long-delayed plan to build a container terminal on a 1,100-acre tract of land called the La Quinta Trade Gateway is being resuscitated as part of a multi-phase, mixed-use

Hallmark Cards once used the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports for virtually all its imports into the United States.

Pirates in the Indian Ocean hijacked a Singapore-flag container ship some 300 nautical miles north of the Seychelles, signaling a resurgence in attacks on ships using trade lanes near the coast of Som

Grain industry firm Archer Daniels Midland acquired five oceangoing dry-bulk ships of varying sizes to haul “all types of grain, grain products and bulk commodities to and from ports in Europe,

The economy is stabilizing but will take time to adjust to a "less spendthrift" consumer, and a rebound in U.S.

Maersk Line, the world’s largest ocean container carrier, is expanding its service in the breakbulk and out-of-gauge equipment market.

In a market that has been utterly stagnant, a Middle East oil tanker operator signed the first container ship order anywhere in the world since October 2008.

NEW ORLEANS -- Buoyed by a weak dollar and recovering demand among emerging markets, U.S.

Containership charter rates are testing fresh lows, and hire periods are shrinking rapidly as ocean carriers rein in leased box capacity in a bid to narrow the huge supply/demand gap.

Breakbulk Transportation Conference & Exhibition, New Orleans, Oct.

Demand on the St. Lawrence Seaway-Great Lakes system fell off a whopping 35.3 percent to 19.3 million metric tons of cargo for the season to date through Sept. 30.

Surface transportation should show modest growth through 2010 and then take off strongly in 2011 with double-digit growth in volume, a Schneider Logistics executive said Tuesday.

Evergreen Line and CMA CGM will implement rate increases in the Europe, Mediterranean trades to and from the Far East and Indian sub-continent.

Recession ravaged one economy after another in 2009, fulfilling earlier dire predictions for the global container industry, said Drewry Shipping Consultants in their latest Market Review & Forecas

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics boosted the frequency of its Japan-Korea-China roll-on, roll-off shipping service, citing a "resurgence" of trade among the three countries.

Executives of the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads will join representatives of the six major West Coast container ports to promote the ports as an efficient and environmentally-friendly gateway for A

Customs and Border Protection’s advanced computer system for processing documentation is taking longer to develop and will cost more than anticipated, but completing development of the Automated

The year long decline in container traffic on the key Asia-Europe trade slowed in August as rising European exports partially compensated for lower shipments from the Far East.

The port of Antwerp gave a qualified welcome to the Dutch government's decision to deepen the river Scheldt, the port’s access to the North Sea.

A joint venture between the Rockefeller Group and MeadWestvaco will develop a 1.1 million square foot distribution center at the Port of Charleston, S.C., for auto tire marketer TBC.

Like their brethren in the trans-Pacific, trans-Atlantic container lines have eliminated or combined so many of their services in the last three months that vessel capacity has tightened to the point

For importers buying from Asia and the ocean, intermodal rail and motor carriers transporting their goods to U.S. destinations, this is as busy as it’s going to get this year.

Thousands of containers sat unmoved Oct.

Cargo tonnage sagged in September on the St. Lawrence Seaway, according to numbers released Thursday by the Seaway’s U.S. and Canadian administrations.

Four Hercules lift boats bound for Nigeria were loaded aboard the Cosco Kang Sheng Kou, a 512-foot semi-submersible, last week at the Port of Freeport, Texas.

The Galveston-Texas City Pilots’ latest rate adjustment request will be addressed by the pilot commission beginning on Monday, Oct. 12.

The city of Beaumont, Texas should see a marked improvement in downtown traffic congestion thanks to the Port of Beaumont’s $10.5 million rail improvement project, now being reviewed by the stat

Container throughput at major ports in India fell 6.32 percent during the first half of fiscal 2009-10 ending Sept.

MOL said Thursday it will apply a peak-season surcharge on bills of lading for all shipments from Europe and the Mediterranean to Asia.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will charge a container fee for export equipment picked up at some Midwest depots as well as other locations in the United States effective Nov. 1.

The organizations representing ship managers and ship suppliers called upon ship owners to discuss cash flow problems openly as the global slowdown has made many slow to pay.