Forwarding

The record drought in the Southwest this year caused $5.2 billion in agricultural losses in Texas, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service reported.

With the International Longshoremen’s Association contract expiration a year away, some shippers already are starting to explore contingency plans.

The Yangtze River is the world’s third-longest river after the Amazon and Nile, stretching 3,914 miles from the Tibetan Plateau to its mouth at Shanghai.

With container and general cargo volume steady and rising across the Gulf of Mexico, ports are spending much of their time expanding shoreside facilities in anticipation of increased Asian cargo flows

A U.S.-Canada cross-border dispute simmering since last spring may be on the verge of boiling over.

Nearly 500 Canadian Auto Workers employees on Friday notified Canada’s St.

Mitsui O.S.K.

A 16.4 percent jump in exports spurred a 7.3 percent increase in loaded international container volume at the Port of Tacoma in August from a year earlier.

Mediterranean Shipping Co., the world’s second-largest container shipping carrier by fleet capacity, will raise rates from the United States to the Far East, effective Nov. 1.

The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said its member carriers plan to implement targeted rate increases on export commodities Nov. 1.

CSAV is living an extreme version of container shipping’s recent ups and downs.

International container services partially resumed Friday at Japan’s Port of Sendai, the largest port in the northeastern Japanese region that bore the brunt of the devastating March 11 earthqua

Ron Widdows, a prominent leader in the global container industry, is leaving his position as group president and CEO of Neptune Orient Lines as of Oct.

Korean container line Hanjin Shipping will launch an Asia-Pacific to West India direct service in late October.

Horizon Lines has delayed for one week its target date for completing a $655 million refinancing that would stave off bankruptcy by the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will apply a general rate increase on the eastbound trade from North Europe to

DHL Global Forwarding launched less-than-containerload direct services from Germany to Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, as the Deutche Post DHL Group subsidiary taps growing German manufacturing and aut

The World Shipping Council will keep Ron Widdows as chairman of its board through September 2012 after he steps down as group president and CEO of Neptune Orient Lines at the end of this year.

The European Investment Bank approved an $82 million loan to finance the construction of a new container terminal in the Spanish Atlantic port of Cadiz.

Maersk Line doesn’t expect the 20 giant new container ships it has ordered to flood the market, nor does it expect the ships to become the new standard on the Asia-Europe trade lane,

The Drewry Container Rate Benchmark for trans-Pacific spot pricing fell for the second straight week in the week ending Sept.

Maersk Line expanded its Asia-Europe Service 7 with a direct call at Qingdao, China, effective this month.

The port of Felixstowe inaugurated the first deep water berths in the U.K. able to handle the latest generation of mega container ships on Wednesday.

U.S. containerized imports last month fell 1.5 percent from a year earlier, dragged down by lower shipments of home goods, apparel and toys, PIERS data show.

The Indian Navy captured pirates attempting to seize two foreign-flag cargo vessels in the Gulf of Aden, Navy officials said Tuesday.

The Port of Antwerp said on Tuesday it will speed up imports of products made from animals by centralizing their inspection at one border point and pass the savings to importers through 25 percent lo

Plans to build a $1.5 billion container terminal at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) got back on track after the consortium of Singapore’s PSA International and India's ABG Group recei

Horizon Lines, moving to complete a $655 million refinancing this week, said Kimberly-Clark had agreed to drop antitrust claims resulting from the carrier’s price-fixing in the U.S.

Ocean container carriers will lose more than $300 million on trans-Pacific services in 2011 due to falling freight rates and shrinking traffic, according to Alphaliner.

The Georgia Ports Authority board approved a $4.75 million project Monday that will expand the Port of Savannah’s capacity for refrigerated container storage by 45 percent, allowing the port to

Japanese ocean carrier NYK Line imposed port congestion surcharges on containerized shipments moving through Port of Chennai, and other lines hiked their bottleneck fees for cargo through the Indian p

Dubai’s DP World will boost annual capacity of its flagship Jebel Ali container terminal by 1 million 20-foot equivalent units to 15 million TEUs, as the United Arab Emirates’

DP World restarted operations at its Egyptian container terminal on Sunday night following the end of a six-day strike by dockworkers.

There are no sure bets in shipping, but container leasing comes close.

A $41 million project to better connect the site of Port of Corpus Christi’s long-delayed cargo terminal to the main shipping channel begins next month.

Panalipina launched three weekly less-than-containerload ocean services from Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines to Singapore, as the Swiss forwarder strengthens intra-Asia connections to its

Star Reefers said a leading Russian fruit importer that chartered its vessels has ignored a U.K. court order to pay $16.5 million damages to the Norwegian refrigerated cargo ship operator.

It’s as if David had laid down his slingshot and Goliath his spear and started working together.

The Teamsters union and its environmental allies are turning up the heat dramatically in their campaign to redraw port trucking regulations, going directly after officials who oppose the changes.

Grain terminal operator EGT in Longview, Wash., received a 110-car rail shipment of wheat, moving the site closer to opening in the face of a massive labor protest.