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Australia’s government will introduce legislation in the lower house of Parliament Friday to remove a tax on domestic shipping companies in an effort to counter a 40 percent decline in the natio

The G6 Alliance’s Loop 3 Asia-Europe service will not include a call at the port of Gdansk, Poland, OOCL said Friday.

When it came time to impose the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement’s recommended March 15 rate increase, the 15 member carriers took different approaches.

In the battle for dominance in the U.S. container shipping trades, Mediterranean Shipping Co. didn’t deliver a knockout, winner-take-all punch, but it sure came close.

What’s going on with the world’s container carriers? Maersk Line and other large carriers say they’re no longer seeking additional market share.

Average spot prices in the Asia-Europe trade slid this week for the third consecutive week following the huge March 1 general rate increase implemented by carriers in the trade.

Costa Rica gave the final go-ahead for APM Terminals’ 33-year concession to build and operate a $992 million container terminal at the Caribbean port of Moin.

Container ship charter owner Costamare said proceeds from the sale of 7.5 million shares in a secondary offering on the NYSE will be used to acquire ships and repay debt.

APM Terminals said ports must start to draw up plans now to handle the future generation of giant container ships with capacities up to 22,000 20-foot equivalent units.

Hapag-Lloyd swung to a net loss of $38.3 million in 2011 from a $565 million profit in 2010.

Spot rates on the trans-Pacific trade stayed flat week-over-week this week after a 13.6 percent jump last week that followed the rate increase of $300 per 40-foot equivalent unit on March 15

Cosco Container Lines and Hanjin Shipping plan to launch a new service between the Far East, Panama and Houston at the end of April.

Greenwich, Conn.-based private equity firm Littlejohn completed its previously announced acquisit

Government bans on ransom payments to pirates would put seafarers at risk and hurt the global economy, said Alastair Evitt, managing director of Meridian Marine Management and president of InterManage

The arrival of the container ship MSC Fabiola at the port of Long Beach last week does

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will implement a general rate increase on cargo shipped from the Far East to New Zealand as of April 15.

Hanjin Shipping is expanding its operations in the trans-Pacific, adding two joint services, one connecting the U.S. West Coast with the Middle East and South Asia, and the other with Japan.

Three major container carriers plan to raise rates on shipments from India to ports in East/West Africa, starting April 1.

The Port of Long Beach has welcomed what it billed as the largest container ship ever to call at a North American port.

Maersk Line will impose a general rate increase on shipments from India to ports in West Africa.

Hamburg Sud and its Brazilian affiliate Alianca are restructuring their service between North Europe and the east coast of South America in response to what they call changing market conditions.

When International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett warned some 1,600 Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference attendees this month that labor negotiations could produce a strike thi

James Capo has been working for months to calm shippers’ concerns about the impending East and Gulf Coast longshore labor negotiations.

Transactional freight payment data is the mother lode of logistics information, the bedrock on which strategic benchmarking and transportation modeling rests.

It’s been two years since President Obama signed an executive order launching the National Export Initiative, the ambitious program to double exports in two years.

Until recently, the word “Africa” rarely appeared in any sentence mentioning “economic opportunity.” For decades, Africa instead was all but synonymous with “poverty,&rdq

Will there be a wholesale shift of cargo from the West Coast to the East Coast after the Panama Canal’s third set of locks open in 2014? Probably not.

On a Friday in late February, the MSC Roma, a post-Panamax vessel capable of hauling 9,200 20-foot equivalent container units, steamed up the Savannah River to call at the Port of Savannah as part of

The Senate could vote as early as Tuesday on a jobs bill that includes an amendment reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank of the United States, John Hardy Jr., president of the Coalition of Employment

Boskalis reported net profit plunged 18.3 percent to $330 million in a “turbulent” 2011, compared with a profit of $404 million in 2010, as the Dutch dredging and marine services group saw

Hapag-Lloyd will raise its rates on East Asia services as part of its new rate restoration program

Water transportation remains the most fuel-efficient way to transport goods, according to a new report from the Texas Transportation Institute.

The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement took effect Thursday, giving American exporters greater access to the South Korean market.

Irish brewer Guinness is tapping a deep thirst in America, with U.S.

Global port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc. has been selected to operate a new container terminal near Lagos, Nigeria.

Container shipping lines have idled about 5 percent of global fleet capacity, or 800,000 20-foot equivalent units, as demand for container shipping space slows, Maersk Line CEO Soren Skou said Thursda

The controversial state-owned winner of a contract to expand facilities at Indonesia’s Tanjung Priok says container handling capacity will double by 2017.

Container volume in February at the Port of Long Beach declined 15.2 percent year-over-year.

Global Ship Lease boosted fourth quarter 2011 profit to $10.9 million from $1.2 million a year ago as the NYSE-listed container ship owner’s revenue shrunk by $300,000 to $39.7 million.

The Panama Canal Authority’s Board of Directors appointed Jorge Luis Quijano, the engineer in charge of building the canal’s new set of locks, as the new Panama Canal Administrator.