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Grain exporter EGT and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union continue to cry out for clarity over the union’s contention that EGT is bound by a working agreement with Washington’

Canada and the United States have maintained a peaceful border for almost 200 years, but the peace is occasionally broken by a war of words. This is one of those times. On Oct.

The catastrophic events triggered by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami in March that devastated large areas of Japan and killed thousands also had an impact on automotive supply chains world

Although most Japanese producers have recovered at home and abroad from the impact of Japan’s March 11 natural disasters, some such as Honda are still struggling because so many of their supplie

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s announcement to introduce risk management tools to help shippers trade derivatives comes as the Federal Maritime Commission

Fesco and BLG Logistics established a Russo-German auto logistics joint venture at the port of St. Petersburg to handle imports into Europe’s fastest-growing car market.

Salvage crews battling to contain the environmental damage from the stranded ship Rena leaking oil off New Zealand were unable to resume pumping out fuel Thursday.

“K” Line is starting a new weekly intra-Asia service that will run between North China and Southeast Asia.

CSAV is reconfiguring its two services from Asia to Mexico and West Coast of South America and Central America, the Andex Services Sling 1 and Sling 2.

International containerized trade through Japan’s Port of Yokohama declined 6.3 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier to just less than 1.4 million 20-foot equivalent units,

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Japanese containerized cargo exports will slow to 0.2 percent in fiscal 2011, which started on April 1, after growing 9.2 percent the fiscal year previous, said a Japanese research firm.

South Carolina’s refusal to grant a permit to deepen the Savannah River is just a bend in the river, say Georgia Ports Authority officials, not a blockade.

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The port-terminal authorities at Chennai, India’s second-largest container gateway, temporarily suspended export cargo movements and scaled back vessel handling as congestion at its two marine t

A chartered Mediterranean Shipping Co. container ship that foundered on a reef in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty is expected to break apart in next few days,

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Horizon Lines said it will raise rates on its U.S. shipments to China on Nov.

Containerized imports at the Port of Los Angeles were flat in September compared to last year and slipped slightly from August, all but leaving the peak shipping of 2011 as a bust.

Spot rates for container shipments from Hong Kong to Los Angeles fell below $1,500 per 40-foot-equivalent unit for the first time since January 2010, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants’ we

The Panama Canal Authority completed the third phase of digging the excavation for the new locks on the Pacific side of the canal.

Container ship lines face renewed losses because they have reverted to their habit of emphasizing “price, price, price instead of service, service, service,” said Orient Overseas Container

India’s exports surged 36.3 percent year-over-year to $24.8 billion in September, according to latest provisional figures released by the Commerce Ministry.

BNSF Railway intermodal executive Fred Malesa does not believe West Coast ports will lose much market share in the Asian trade when the

SHENZHEN -- Struggling with sliding rates amid plentiful capacity on major world trade lanes, several container line executives say they are starting to consider whether to lay up some vessels in

Several large shippers say they are now providing rolling forecasts of their demand outlook to improve coordination with ocean carriers following supply and demand disconnects in recent years.

Carriers in the westbound Pacific trades reconfirmed their intention to implement export rate increases generally of $100 to $200 per 40-foot container effective Nov. 1.

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Chilean container carrier CSAV is reorganizing its IMEX 1 Service connecting India, the Middle East and Europe, starting this month.

The Grand Alliance will suspend its Japan-China Express service to the U.S. West Coast for the slack winter season beginning in late October.

Ocean carriers and charter shipowners have placed orders worth $57 billion for new container vessels over the next four years, with about half of the value of orders made as the industry emerged from

International container traffic during the first six months of 2011 at the Port of Nagoya rose 4.9 percent year-over-year, as auto exports grew 38.3 percent at Japan's top global trade port and gatewa

Excess capacity and insistence on chasing unprofitable market share will cause many container ship lines to lose money this year despite global volume growth of more than 7 percent, Drewry Maritime Re

A $120 million port and multimodal transport project in Myanmar will open up international trade with India’s isolated North East provinces.

As container terminals up and down the 102-mile Suez Canal were closing briefly during Egypt’s revolution last February, business through the waterway barely blinked.

The Georgia Ports Authority approved a $4.75 million project that will expand the Port of Savannah’s capacity for refrigerated container storage by 45 percent.

Some in the perishables industry already are talking about lawsuits as the Food and Drug Administration rolls out new fees for inspections of some imported foods.

Worldwide refrigerated trade is expected to grow at an unexciting but steady 3 percent annually for the next few years, but Ocean World Lines is thinking much bigger: The non-vessel-operating common c

When political upheavals erupted across North Africa and the Middle East last February, it was just the beginning of a tumultuous time at the Suez Canal Container Terminal.

After a brief, recession-driven pause in growth in 2009, global perishable refrigerated trade expanded 3 percent in 2010, and is expected to increase at that level for the next few years, according to