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More than three dozen customers of Sea Star Line and Crowley Liner services have filed a triple-damage antitrust lawsuit against the carriers, their parent companies and a former company official.

Container volumes at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach bounced back strongly in March following a weak Februar

The TT Club, a mutual insurer of transport and logistics risk, reported a 90.6 percent drop in net income on Monday to $1.2 million last year from $12.8 million in 2010 (which included income from pri

Ocean carriers are preparing a fresh round of rate hikes on the Asia-Europe trade, taking advantage of stronger-than-expected cargo growth and a resilient spot market to move out of the red.

Abu Dhabi Terminals saw volume rise 47 percent year-over-year in 2011, reaching 767,713 20-foot equivalent units.

Evergreen Line said it will charter 10 ships with capacities of 13,800 20-foot equivalent units.

A month after the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement took effect, U.S. pork producers, cattle ranchers and fresh fruit and vegetable growers are ecstatic.

China’s consumers spent $962.8 billion in grocery stores last year, pushing the country to the world’s top spot in grocery store spending.

Saratoga Honda’s parking lot is full of new cars, a sharp contrast to last summer, when the auto dealer’s supply chain was severed twice, first by the tsunami in Japan and later by floods

Bilateral negotiations to end agricultural trade disputes failed with 46 nations, the European Union, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the South African Development Community, according to a new repor

Refrigerated shipments are expected to grow along with the world’s middle class, but a representative for U.S.

After a mighty bluster in the run-up to negotiations for a new contract at East and Gulf Coast ports, the tone and rhetoric from the nation’s second-largest longshore union and its management co

The Georgia Ports Authority added 20 refrigerated container racks at the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal.

First came the Facebook posts that got shared and reshared. Within a few days, “pink slime” was a trending topic on Twitter.

Analysts and economists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are full of good news about sales prospects for U.S. farm goods.

The Port of Wilmington, Del., handled 5,084,478 tons of cargo last year, up 26 percent from 2010, and achieved the highest general cargo tonnage throughput since the port’s 1995 acquisition by t

Investors in the container industry are likely to see disappointing returns in the coming years as Asia’s export growth rates slow now that the outsourcing production from Europe and the U.S.

Maersk Line expects to lose money this year despite recent rate increases, A.P. Moller-Maersk Chairman Michael Pram Rasmussen told shareholders at the parent company’s annual meeting.

Norway’s Star Reefers said it has reached a “satisfactory” solution to its dispute with Russia’s largest fruit importer that

Exports of refrigerated goods from the U.S. last year increased 16 percent to 15.5 million metric tons, and economists forecast reefer exports will rise again this year.

Maher Terminals has filed a Federal Maritime Commission complaint alleging the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey discriminated against Maher by

Westbound Asia-to-Europe spot rates eased slightly this week, but held on to most of the 28 percent jump in

Container shipping lines have been able to raise Asia-Europe freight rates enough to return them to profitability on the route, according to the latest Bimco Shipping Market Overview.

DB Schenker this month launched a less-than-containerload service from Houston to the Middle East via Dubai to meet growing demand for oil and energy equipment exports.

Hapag-Lloyd will launch a new weekly service next month connecting Germany with ports in the Baltic region.

The West Coast arbitrator who adjudicates labor disputes involving the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and waterfront employers on Wednesday ruled dockworkers in Los Angeles-Long Beach wou

CMA CGM has announced an “emergency rate restoration” of $385 per 20-foot container on routes from Asia to Europe and the Mediterranean.

Hamburg is set to sharply increase its share of the fiercely competitive North European container market after a long-delayed plan to

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the final documents on Wednesday for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project for review by state and federal agencies and the general public.

Container imports to Europe increased 4 percent in February, while exports grew 8.89 percent, according to the latest analysis from Container Trade Statistics.

A Vietnamese vessel carrying 60 containers sank off the shore of southern Vietnam after it collided with a Thai ship Tuesday morning, according to reports.

The Federal Maritime Commission is interested in exploring a suggestion by agricultural shippers that establishing a container rate index for exports could be beneficial for U.S. shippers.

Maersk Line is implementing a new round of general rate increases on various trade lanes that will take effect in May.

The general rate increase implemented on March 15 by carriers on the eastbo

Horizon Lines has completed transactions that reduce the company’s net deb

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major container ports is expected to increase 3.2 percent in April compared to the same month last year, and year-over-year gains should continue through the

Container shipping lines in the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement have announced further rate hikes for dry

The U.S. auto trade is undergoing a sea change as the import share of the domestic market is set to level off in the next few years and exports of U.S.-made cars rise.

The Korean hub of Busan saw total container traffic expand 13.7 percent in February compared to a year earlier.

CMA CGM will raise its rates on westbound cargo moving on its Epic service from India to North Europe and the Mediterranean, starting May 1.