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The World Shipping Council and regulators in Japan say their joint plan on vessel efficiency would set fees for operators of ships that do not meet new environmental and energy standards.

The Containership Company's bankruptcy trustee is seeking $25 million in liquidated damages from approximately 80 shippers who failed to fulfill their cargo commitments with the short-lived trans-Paci

Trade and transportation groups in Southern California are urging the Port of Long Beach not to transfer $16.9 million in harbor rev

The Graig Group, a charter shipowner based in Cardiff, Wales, placed orders for a series of up to 26 fuel-efficient container feeder ships that will be built at the Jin Hai shipyard complex in China.

Switzerland-based Kuehne + Nagel was the largest international forwarder in 2010, handling of nearly a 10th of the world’s air and sea freight business by revenue, according to Transport Intelli

Import cargo volume at the busiest U.S.

The top 20 ocean container carriers boosted their combined world market share to a record 84 percent in July, according to Alphaliner.

Moody's Investors Service set a negative outlook for the shipping industry over the next 12 to 18 months on Tuesday, saying the business from container carriers to bulk operators is facing overcapacit

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Container shipping volume through major Indian ports increased 3 percent in the fiscal first quarter from a year earlier, the Indian Ports Association reported on Monday.

Global container volume will rise during the second half of this year but weak inventory restocking will produce a summer-fall peak season “unlikely to inspire” higher rates, Macquarie Equ

Containerized export volumes are growing faster than imports in trans-Pacific trade lanes this year, fueled by surging exports of cotton, wastepaper and logs.

The Federal Maritime Commission will discuss a proposal to increase the PierPass traffic mitigation fee to $60 per TEU when it meets July 13.

Orient Overseas Container Line has advised its customers that its previously announced peak season surcharges in the eastbound Pacific will be delayed until Aug. 1.

Singapore terminal operator PSA International said Friday it will manage a new container terminal in Cuba, currently under construction in the port of Mariel on the island’s northern coast.

Container ship operators are scheduled to take a record amount of new capacity in 2012, with deliveries set to expand capacity some 9.5 percent over available space this year, according to Braema

Startup carrier American Feeder Lines’ first ship will depart Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Friday to begin a service its backers hope will develop into a network of routes covering the Atlantic and

Ocean carriers in the New World Alliance will suspend a trans-Pacific service this month due to slowing demand for retail merchandise and reductions in inventory replenishment in the U.S.

A five-day-old trucker strike at India's Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal ended late Wednesday following talks between union leaders and terminal operator DP World.

Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government-owned sovereign wealth fund, rode higher contributions from portfolio companies that include Neptune Orient Lines, PSA International and Singapore Airlines t

CMA CGM has started providing intermodal rail service between the Belgian port of Zeebrugge and the tri-modal hub in Duisburg, Germany.

Hanjin Shipping raised $150 million Wednesday from the sale of five-year convertible bonds that it plans to use for general corporate purposes.

The Long Beach City Council, brushing off strong opposition from shipping lines and terminal operators, voted to ask the Board of Harbor Commissioners to transfer $16.9 million of harbor revenue to th

OOCL plans to stop providing chassis on Sept. 1 at six additional port and inland locations in the East and Midwest, including the Port of Charleston, S.C.

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Econocaribe Consolidators is introducing a new function on its website that enables shippers to track and trace full containerload shipments in real time through “track and trace EDI” (ele

Smaller vessel operators could be forced out of Asia-Europe container trade lanes as the deployment of ultra-large container ships puts more pressure on freight rates and the bottom line, according to

Crowley Maritime is bolstering its logistics capabilities in the Caribbean with the acquisition of Puerto Rico Freight Systems, a company specializing in freight consolidation and less-than-container

Drewry Maritime Research is forecasting average east-west ocean freight rates will fall 20.8 percent this year from 2010 as the addition of ship capacity outpaces growth in demand.

CSAV is suspending its service between Asia and the Mediterranean amid sharply declining rates on Asia-Europe trade lanes.

Those large blue boxes with the familiar APL logo that started appearing on U.S. highways and railroads in May aren’t ocean containers, though it’s tough to tell the difference.

Audiovox Electronics’ Pat Moffett is willing to stand behind his commitment to deliver cargo to his carrier in time to fill the slot he’s reserved.

Exporting companies are starting to see the fruits of the Obama administration’s effort to streamline and modernize the outdated export control system.

One reason Seaspan chose Chinese shipyards to build its next generation of big ships was that South Korean shipbuilders were slow to offer more fuel-efficient designs.

Despite signs of a cyclical slump in container shipping, a bull market is developing for construction of large, fuel-efficient ships.

Container shipping line APL is building an intermodal container terminal in Joliet, Ill., to strengthen its transcontinental network in the United States.

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Container imports at the Port of Seattle fell back 27.8 percent in May from the same month a year ago in a broad decline in international shipping at Pacific Northwest ports.

Hapag-Lloyd announced a steep hike in its “war risk surcharge” on all cargo moving to and from

NYK Line is extending its plan to phase out chassis services, dropping the equipment provision in Oakland and Minneapolis for import and export merchant haulage bills of lading.