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Container throughput at India’s largest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru, fell 7 percent in the April-July period compared with a year ago, amid the continuing slump in the country’s forei

Maersk Line said 400 truckers have applied to participate in the chassis pool that the carrier launched this week in the Port of New York and New Jersey and surrounding areas.

Responding to increased demand, Seaboard Marine will employ a larger ship in its weekly Port of New Orleans container service with Latin America.

Seaspan Corporation on Thursday reported net profit of $112.3 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2009, up 32 percent from the $85.3 million it earned in the same quarter last year.

The world’s three largest container lines said Thursday they are cutting capacity on two trans-Pacific services they operate under vessel-sharing agreements they formed last summer.

The growth of the world’s container fleet almost stalled during the past few weeks as ships are sent to the scrap yards in droves while deliveries of new ships are slowing, according to Alphalin

Neptune Orient Lines, parent of liner company APL, lost $146 million in the second quarter ending June 30, most of it on steep declines in volume and pricing that left container shipping revenue down

OOCL announced a general rate increase for U.S.

APL Logistics and Con-way Freight are extending to Mexico their OceanGuaranteed service for less-than-containerload cargo from Asia.

Maersk Line said today it will seek rate increases on services to and from West Africa and on services between Asia and Latin America.

Container volume statistics compiled by Pacific Maritime Association confirm that West Coast ports in the first half of 2009 took a terrible beating, with overall volume falling a combined 20.7 percen

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Mediterranean Shipping Company (USA), joining the push by ocean carriers to pump up depressed container shipping price, announced a series of rate increases Tuesday starting Sept. 1 for U.S.

Marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach will maintain the PierPass traffic mitigation fee at the current level of $50 per TEU despite declining cargo volumes.

Back in 2007, Don Hamm was worried his terminal wouldn’t have enough capacity to handle the growth in container trade.

Let’s face it, whether in good times or bad, no one wants to pay more for services or goods than they had been paying.

When the Port of Tampa decided recently to tear down its 35-year-old cold storage site and build a bigger facility as part of a larger container terminal expansion, the port was defying trends at port

Three of Bremen, Germany-based heavy-lift carrier Beluga’s 12,744 deadweight-ton F-class vessels will be transiting the chilly north-east passage along the northern shore of Russia this summer t

Shipping lines that carry U.S. exports to Asia, joining the global rush to raise ocean rates, said Thursday they will seek to prop up freight pricing in the weak westbound Pacific market.

The Federal Maritime Commission is ending its investigation of the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks program, saying developments since it launched the probe last September have significantly dimini

Rotterdam faces an enormous glut of container capacity when a new terminal begins operations in 2013, the head of the port's biggest box stevedore warned.

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure on July 28 said it will book a pretax loss of around $170 million after agreeing to sell a bigger stake in its Euroports unit at a lower price.

Second quarter profit for Athens-based container ship-owner Danaos fell 35 percent from a year ago, but the company said it detected signs of recovery in the ocean container market in the upcoming pea

During the fiscal year ended June 30, Georgia Ports Authority saw a 10.5 percent decrease in total containers and a 12.4 percent decline in total tonnage.

The city state of Hamburg, Hapag-Lloyd's second largest shareholder, is due to decide July 28 how much cash to inject into Germany's biggest ocean carrier to help it survive the slump in the container

Like those of many other Asian nations, India’s exports have fallen by a third as the global recession sapped demand overseas.

The normally steady liner trade between the U.S. and Australia-New Zealand is expected to be

When the Panama Canal Authority this month awarded its $3.1 billion contract for the design and construction of the canal’s third set of locks, there were actually two wi

HHLA, Hamburg's top container stevedore, today, July 24, announced its intention to sell its box terminal in Lubeck because of a steep slump in Baltic feeder traffic at the neighboring north German po

Containerized imports at the Port of Tacoma, Wash., plunged 35.5 percent in June, the steepest year-over-year decline the Pacific Northwest port has seen this year.

The Port Authority at Vancouver, British Columbia, is canvassing its options, including legal action, after Canadian National Railway switched its rail service to trucks for three of the port's four c

Hapag-Lloyd and OOCL, extending the capacity cuts by container lines, will combine a joint trans-Atlantic service into a single loop with Mediterranean Shipping Co.’s Canadian Gateway service.

The Port of Seattle had its best month of the year for international containerized cargo in June, although volume measured in loaded TEUs declined 10.9 percent compared to the same month last year.

GATX, a railcar and maritime asset leasing provider, earned a profit of $12.7 million on total gross income of $288.1 million in the second quarter. Gross income was down 24 percent.

Ocean carrier ZIM will use Da Chan Bay Terminal One in Shenzhen, China for services covering the Asia-U.S.

One-third of all container ships under construction or on order will be delivered late after shipowners and ocean carriers persuaded shipyards to defer deliveries amid a growing glut of capacity.

The Port of Tampa is planning to tear down its ailing 35-year-old Harborside cold storage facility and concentrate on container cargo rather than breakbulk perishables.

In its first-ever monthly newsletter this month, the European Liner Affairs Association said Europe's total containerized import volume fell 20.6 percent in the first five months of the year, part of

Hanjin Shipping added its trans-Atlantic services to the growing parade of rate increases announced by ocean carriers, saying it will hike prices on the lanes Sept.

Container cargo traffic at Port Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, is down 15 percent for the first half of this year to 1.04 million 20-foot equivalent units, in a recession-induced slump in imports