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The amount of container ships arriving on time in third quarter rose to 63 percent, and Maersk Line had the best schedule reliability among major carriers, Drewry Maritime Research said in its latest

Four maritime unions have criticized the Maritime Administration for not including their viewpoints in a study

Wilh Wilhelmsen’s third quarter operating profit surged 135 percent to $175 million on strong growth in the Norwegian car carrier’s trade lanes out of Japan and from Europe to China.

Spot freight rates on the trans-Pacific dropped this week after last week’s brief rebound off their 22-month lows.

Maersk Line said Friday it lost $297 million on shipping in the third quarter amid collapsing freight rates on the key Asia-Europe trade lane, and the world’s largest ocean container carrier sai

Most shippers of agricultural products are securing the vessel space and equipment they need right now, but they expect space to tighten and freight rates to rise over the next three months, according

APM Terminals’ third-quarter profit jumped 24 percent year-over-year to $174 million, as the terminal operator grew container traffic by a market-beating 11 percent to 8.6 million 20-foot equiva

Retired NOL Group President and CEO Ron Widdows, decrying the steep rate-cutting that is crippling the shipping industry’s financial health, said he expects container lines to idle a large swath

Matson Navigation saw third-quarter operating profit plunge 32.7 p

Steve Hastings has resigned as president of Sea Star Line, the third-largest carrier in the U.S.

The Global Port Tracker retail industry shipping report lowered its fall container import forecasts for the

Dockwise is selling its yacht transport business to New York-based Coby Enterprises Corp. to focus solely on its core heavy lift shipping operations in the oil and gas sectors.

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India grew about 4 percent year-over-year from April through October, the Indian Ports Association said Tuesday.

Six ocean carriers that entered the trans-Pacific liner market in the past two years will account for $150 million of the likely $800 million total losses on the trade in 2011, according to Alphaliner

Danaos boosted third quarter revenue by 33 percent from a year ago as its fleet expanded but losses on interest rate swaps kept the Greek container shipowner in the red.

Felixstowe’s container rail traffic hit a record 11,019 containers in a single week, as the UK’s largest box port reaps the benefits of a three-year investment in tracks, cranes and termin

Fesco reported strong gains in international ocean container traffic and intermodal shipments in the first nine months of the year, as Russia’s largest container line benefited from surging impo

Global container freight rates fell for the fourth straight month in September and are down 35 percent in the last 12 months, according to London-based Drewry Maritime Research.

Something scary happened on Halloween this year. On that day, a child was born somewhere in the world who brought the global population tally to 7 billion.

The Port of Kobe in western Japan saw container traffic rise 5.4 percent year-over-year in the first half of 2011, as imports rose 6.1 percent at the country’s fourth-largest container port.

To port planner John Vickerman, the questions over the size of new vessels coming to U.S. marine terminals disregard the most important figure.

No one’s suggesting there will be nothing under Christmas trees this year, but container ship lines are finding little to celebrate as the holidays approach.

Alan D. Bersin’s past year must seem like a blur: The commissioner of Customs and Border Protection is in a hurry to make his mark, and time is running out.

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard Lidinksy says the container shipping industry's trans-Pacific discussion groups are showing "near outright defiance” of a commiss

Green Reefers and Seatrade are pooling their refrigerated cargo ship fleets to combat fiercer competition from ocean container carriers.

Hanjin Shipping reported a third-quarter operating loss of $1.5 million on its container operations as sliding frei

The Shanghai Container Freight Index for Nov. 4 fell 1.4 percent from the week before to a record low, as the Asia-Europe index dropped by 5.5 percent from the prior week.

Expeditors International of Washington improved net profit 11 percent in the third quarter to $106.6 million despite a 4 percent decline in gross revenue in a weakening freight shipping market.

Cargo-handling operations at the Port of Oakland returned to normal Thursday morning following a night of disruptions from the Occupy Oakland movement.

Rotterdam container traffic in the first three quarters of 2011 grew 7.7 percent y

Intermodal rail traffic is maintaining good momentum this autumn even as the international shipping business moving containers on the water remains in the doldrums.

Container throughput in September at the Port of Savannah jumped 13.5 percent sequentially from August and by 11.1 percent year-over-year.

Panalpina reported lower third quarter profit as a strong Swiss franc offset record ocean container volume and strong air freight margins across the Swiss forwarder and logistics group’s global

Revenue at Orient Overseas Container Lines fell 8.3 percent in the third quarter as new capacity helped push average revenue per container down 14 percent from a year ago.

Container volume at West Coast ports declined 2 percent year-over year in September, as a 7 percent drop in imports further reinforced a disappointing

Caribbean carrier Tropical Shipping posted a $3.7 million third quarter operating loss, reversing a $3.6 million operating profit a year earlier, amid weak volume and higher fuel prices, parent compan

Danaos said it took delivery last month of the CMA CGM Bianca, a new containerships with a capacity of 8,530 20-foot equivalent units.

Trans-Pacific spot rates rebounded this week off their 22-month low of last week, rising for the first time in two months, as measured by Drewry Shipping Consultants weekly benchmark.

APL pulled some of its refrigerated containers from service and said Wednesday the remaining stock in its reefer fleet is safe

Hong Kong’s Hutchison Port Holdings won a 10-year concession to develop and operate a container terminal at Unite