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The annual cost of operating a container ship rose 3.1 percent in 2011, mainly because of rising wages for crews and higher repair and maintenance costs, according to international accountant and ship

Russia’s Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port plans to invest $205 million to expand capacity and modernize facilities at a container terminal in the Black Sea port of Novoroslesexport to keep pace

Average spot rates in the eastbound trans-Pacific trade stayed flat this week after a jump of 8.6 percent last week fueled by demand for space.

Check in with the JOC as we provide you with the latest developments out of the International Longshoremen's Association and United States Maritime Alliance contract negotiations labor dispute.

Annual capacity of Mediterranean container ports is expected to rise by 63 percent to 114 million 20-foot-equivalent units during the next decade, according to

Carriers in the eastbound trans-Pacific trade plan to increase freight rates significantly on imports from Asia in 2013.

The Global Port Tracker report forecast continued sluggishness in North Europe container imports, and forecast that international imports to the region’s ports will decline 2.1 percent this year

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Leading ocean carriers are still chasing growth despite weaker markets and difficulties in securing funding for new orders, according to container industry analyst Alphaliner.

Maersk Line plans to cut its deployed capacity by implementing another round of slow-steaming in the Asia-Europe trade.

The number of foreign trade containers handled by the Port of Tokyo rose 5.1 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier to about 2.08 million 20-foot-equivalent units.

An APL executive stuck in Dubai for months awaiting trial on gun-smuggling charges

China International Marine Container, the world’s largest container manufacturer, is venturing into the ship-owning business after finalizing a $330 million order for four container ships at STX

OOCL has launched a new intra-Europe service linking Germany and Russia.

DP World signed a contract Sunday for the construction of a third container terminal at its flagship Jebel Ali box hub in the United Arab Emirates.

This fall has brought something absent in 2011: a peak season for containerized import shipments of holiday goods.

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles want to bring owners and users of chassis together to develop an operating model for the Southern California gateway.

Timing is everything.

Most U.S. Gulf ports focus largely on trade with Asia, Europe and South America, but a late bloomer is emerging out of the Southern Hemisphere.

The timing and health of shipping peak season is as murky on the rails as it is on the water.

The drought in the U.S. Midwest will stall or at least slow the long-term trend toward higher protein diets in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, according to a report from Rabobank.

OOCL will increase freight rates on services from South East Asia, India and the Middle East to Australia next

U.S. export growth and the shift of production back to the U.S.

The official inauguration today of Germany’s first deep-water container terminal, in the Port of Wilhelmshaven, sets the stage for a fierce battle for cargo with the neighboring ports of Bremen/

Retailers say they welcome the agreement by the International Longshormen’s Associaiton and United States Maritime Alliance.

The Federal Maritime Commission has reminded the shipping industry that carriers must file

DP World has sold its 50 percent stake in the container terminal in Yemen’s port of Aden just four years into a 30-year management deal aimed at transforming the Red Sea facility into a regional

Japan’s exports to the U.S.

Planning to build the load center port of the future requires a strategic vision that emphasizes construction of large marine terminals, harbor deepening, expanding road and rail access and a cargo growth strategy.

Maersk Line plans to launch a container service, called the ME4, linking India, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, effective in November.

Trans-Pacific spot rates jumped 8.6 percent this week from last week as U.S. importers scrambled to find space on vessels bound for the West Coast as a precaution against a possible East Coast port strike by the International Longshoremen's Association.

Negotiators for the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance met Wednesday in Newark, N.J., and planned to return Thursday for a second day of negotiations.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is adding a port call at Haifa in Israel on both legs of its Golden Gate Service between Asia and the U.S. East Coast via the Suez Canal.

The Port of Baltimore could once again become a contender for import cargo bound for the Midwest as a result of the decision by CSX to locate its new intermodal rail terminal near the Port of Baltimor

East Coast ports look forward with great anticipation to the completion of the Panama Canal expansion project in 2015, while West Coast ports are apprehensive about a possible loss of cargo.

The joint owners of Scandlines are mulling the sale of Germany’s biggest ferry line in 2013 in a move likely accelerate the consolidation of the North European and Baltic short sea shipping mark

Shipyards in 2013 will deliver more new container vessels than during any year in the history of the industry, but the arrival of these large, fuel-efficient ships will be a mixed blessing for contain

Piraeus remained Cosco Pacific’s top performing container hub in August as traffic surged 53 percent from a year ago and grew 98.4 percent in the first eight months of 2012.

Overall confidence levels in all sectors of the shipping industry fell in the three months ended August 2012 to their lowest level for a year, according to the latest Shipping Confidence Survey from i