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Container ships reached their destination ports around the world on time 81.2 percent of the time in September, a small increase of 0.4 percentage point from August...

The Stifel Nicolaus Logistics Confidence Index, a monthly survey of international shippers and forwarders measuring Europe-based air and ocean freight trade lanes...

The largest ocean carriers sharply increased their market share at the expense of their smaller rivals in the third quarter, according to Drewry Maritime Research.

Major container lines have announced the following rate increases for a variety of trades slated to take effect in December and January.

China Shipping (North America) has plans to relocate its customer service center in Houston and its intermodal center in Chicago to make way for a new...

Ship and container reliability levels in the third quarter of 2013 were “disappointing,” according to Drewry Maritime Research’s recently published quarterly Carrier Performance Insight report.

The U.S. Jones Act, which requires that U.S. domestic ocean cargo is carried from port to port in ships that are...

Former Long Beach Mayor Beverly O’Neill told the current mayor, Bob Foster, the city council and the Long Beach Harbor Commission that an item on the council’s Nov. 19 agenda is ill-advised and could lead to a loss of business at the nation’s second largest container port.

Slowdowns by container truck drivers at the Gateway Terminals operated by APM Terminals threaten to worsen congestion in Nhava Sheva Port (Jawaharlal Nehru), India’s largest container gateway.

Major container lines have announced planned rate increases for a variety of trades, as detailed below, slated to take effect in November, December and January.

More than 10,000 people are feared dead after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) caused widespread devastation in the central Philippines on Friday and Saturday.

When Maersk Line CEO Soren Skou told the JOC’s TPM Conference in March that nearly 12 percent of container industry invoices are inaccurate, shippers took notice. It has been, after all, Maersk Line’s “highest customer service issue for some time,” one that potentially costs ocean carrier customers millions of dollars a year.

Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA, the world’s biggest deep-sea roll-on, roll-off shipping line, reported its third quarter profit declined to $78 million from $246 million a year ago because of lower global car shipments and one-off items.

Container shortages aren’t expected to squeeze most U.S. grain and soybean exporters until early next year, but there are already signs of scarcity. Although inbound holiday goods are still delivering ample supplies of containers for Midwest exports, supplies will tighten as container carriers scale back their operations during the typically slow winter months, said Justin Cauley at agriculture marketing company Scoular.

France’s Port of Le Havre has welcomed the maiden call of the Glovis Condor, a roll-on, roll-off vessel owned by Glovis, a South Korean company.

Major container lines have announced planned rate increases for a variety of trades, as detailed below, slated to take effect in November and December.

Don’t count on exports to the Caribbean and Central America as a panacea for what ails the sputtering trade with the rest of the recovering world economy this year. What were fast-growing trade lanes are taking a breather. Many tourists are opting to skip their tropical vacations, so those islands are not importing retail goods in anything like the quantity they need when snowbirds come flocking.

Trade growth to and from the Philippines is being held back by poor gateway performance and a lack of hinterland infrastructure, claim lines and forwarders.

NOL Group’s extensive cost-cutting paid off in the third quarter as the Singapore-based shipping line posted a net profit of $20 million even as its revenue declined.

CAI International reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was $15.3 million, falling 9 percent year-over-year from $16.8 million.

The Port of Cleveland is in final negotiations with the Dutch company Spliethoff Group to run a global container service between the Great Lakes and Europe via the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

The Federal Maritime Commission has completed seven compromise agreements with nine non-vessel-operating common carriers and freight forwarders, recovering a total of $617,500 in civil penalties.

Major container lines have announced planned rate increases for a variety of trades, as detailed below, slated to take effect in November and December.

It sounds elementary: An exporter in an interior location needs empty containers.

U.S. farmers expect to harvest bumper corn and wheat crops this year, which should more than reverse the shortfall caused by last year’s drought.

The market for premium service in container shipping is fading, and that means carrier cost-cutting initiatives such as slow steaming with large, efficient vessels will trump rapid transit times...

It’s going to be some time before ocean carriers, trucking companies and equipment owners build a new chassis model as ship lines retreat from the business of providing the wheeled intermodal equipment. During the transition, technology providers such as IAS are providing ocean carriers, motor carriers and chassis owners with the capabilities to operate.

Major container lines have announced planned rate increases for a variety of trades, as detailed below, slated to take effect in November and December.

As Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia is one of the rising stars on a continent full of them. An archipelago consisting of more than 17,000 islands, it’s also one of Asia’s biggest logistics challenges. Now it’s facing another challenge, a slowing economy marked by rising inflation colliding with an urgent need of a transportation infrastructure upgrade.

When “Captain Phillips,” Hollywood’s take on the April 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates on the Maersk Alabama, debuted on Oct. 11, it thrust the ocean shipping industry into the mainstream spotlight in a way no recent film has. But it’s certainly not the first film to do so, and it won’t be the last.

CaroTrans has launched a direct less-than-containerload export service between Los Angeles and Suva, Fiji, expanding its reach in the Pacific Rim.

SHENZHEN, China — China’s shipping industry faces further turmoil as the country imposes new polices aimed at reining in severe overcapacity in the steel, cement, electrolytic aluminum, plate glass and shipping industries, according to the head of the Shanghai Shipping Exchange.

Container shipping lines in the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement Westbound section are attempting to set...

The Port of Baltimore was closed today when International Longshoremen’s Association members went on strike following a breakdown in protracted contract negotiations with the Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore.

Egypt has increased security along the Suez Canal after receiving threats that jihadists were planning attacks along the waterway, United Press International reports.

Ocean carriers’ reluctance to lay up surplus ships will depress freight rates into 2014 and put further pressure on their already seriously depleted financial resources, Drewry Maritime Research predicted.

The Global Shippers’ Forum, a coalition of global shipper groups, raised concerns over the proposed P3 Network alliance between Maersk Line, CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Co. that is supposed to get under way in April of next year.

Major container lines have announced planned rate increases for a variety of trades, as detailed below, slated to take effect in November.

Los Angeles-Long Beach continues to dominate the U.S. import trade from Asia, but Southern California’s market share of containerized imports has declined on average 0.8 percent per year since 2003, according to an industry consultant.

Mainland China accounted for 10.9 million 20-foot-equivalent units, or 36.4 percent of the nearly 30 million TEUs in U.S. containerized trade in 2012.