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Shipping lines have always considered Japanese electronics exporters to be captive shippers for tran

David Lim says the congestion on intermodal networks make two things clear: First, transport provide

With its core business in the Hawaii and Guam trade showing only modest prospects for growth, Matson

Shippers have always supported the presence of independent liner companies in the busy Asia-to-West

Though rates still matter, this year's contract negotiations between trans-Pacific shippers and carr

If timing is everything, the Panama Canal Authority seems to have timed its impending toll increases

The waltz began last September when Maersk Sealand decided to start its own service and told partner

A new container-rate index from investment bank UBS corroborates what everyone in the industry knows

Just as non-vessel-operating common carriers got their first chance to offer customers contracts wit

When Seaspan Container Lines Ltd. was established in 1999 at the height of the dot-com bubble, new I

The quiet announcement over the holidays of the management succession at Taiwan's Evergreen Group ma

A funny thing happened on the way to formulating another flat outlook for the trans-Atlantic trade i

When A.P. Moller-Maersk acquired Safmarine Container Lines in 1999, the Danish shipping giant's goal

First, the bad news: The world's port and intermodal infrastructure is straining to handle explosive

The rumor caught the imagination of the international transportation industry, even though it proved

Every Friday, a small container/roll-on, roll-off ship sails out of Maher Terminals in Port Elizabet

When the Panama Canal Authority proposed a major change in the way it assesses tolls on container sh

CP Ships has reached a watershed in its corporate strategy and structure. Shaken by an accounting fi

Don't hold your cargo shipments until the first smart container comes along, but don't be surprised

Laissez les bons temps rouler" - let the good times roll. These are good times for ocean carriers. T

If shipping lines in the trans-Pacific could fulfill their customers' wish list for next year, they'

For several years, ocean carriers in the eastbound trans-Pacific market have proposed annual rate in

This is a good time to be in ocean shipping. Demand is up, capacity is tight and virtually every car

It's now up to the Federal Maritime Commission to decide whether non-vessel-operating common carrier

Sometimes it pays to put all of your eggs in one basket. Turkon Line, which entered container shippi

All the planets are in alignment, everybody is on the same page, and all the ducks are in a row.

Five containerloads of lemons were sacrificed on the altar of homeland security last month, or that'

In a surprise move that is shaking up the South American trade lanes, Maersk Sealand is planning to

As tall as a 16-story building, the new container ship Albert Maersk towered over Langelinie Quay on

It's been apparent for years that the days of ocean-carrier conferences are numbered. These rate-set

The Federal Maritime Commission's area representatives traditionally have been perceived as the agen

CP Ships had been on a roll. After building a global network of container-shipping services through

The trans-Atlantic is CP Ships' biggest trade, accounting for just less than half of the company's $

Maersk Sealand's decision to resign from the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement effective Sept. 17

Ocean carriers are convinced that their vessels in the eastbound Pacific trade will be full in Septe

The offer by the Singapore government's investment arm, Temasek Holdings Pte., to buy the 70 percent

Back in the 1990s, there was much negative speculation that operations in the Panama Canal would det

Don C. Becker, a former publisher of The Journal of Commerce (1985-97), recently returned from a vis

The growing popularity of all-water services from Asia to the U.S. East Coast, coupled with the scar

Faced with record-high charter costs that are still rising and shortages of ships in most sizes avai