Container Shipping News

Shipping container lessor SeaCo has appointed Jeremy Matthew as CEO and Paul Merritt as chief operating officer.

New Orleans-based ocean transportation company Intermarine has hired John O. Bomer IV as a special consultant to the CEO to help expand the company’s Africa service.

Japanese carrier Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has changed its port rotations for PS1, PS2 and SAX Transpacific services, effective mid-December.

TOTE Inc. will build two LNG-powered container ships for its Sea Star Line service between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico in what the company describes as “a major technological milestone” for shipping.

The perennial shortage of containers in the U.S. Midwest is beginning to hamper the export operations of precisely the kind of small companies that President Obama’s National Export Initiative aims to encourage.

Container shipping line CMA CGM has purchased a stake in the Port of Long Beach’s Pier J.

From Feb. 1, 2013, ocean carrier ACL will no longer supply intermodal chassis for merchants haulage moves in Norfolk, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Savannah, Ga.; Atlanta; and Memphis, Tenn.

Megaship CMA CGM Marco Polo, with a capacity of 16,020 20-foot-equivalent units, made its first call to a continental European port on its maiden voyage at the Port of Hamburg today...

Orient Overseas Container Line today announced that it will implement a “Port Congestion Surcharge” in the event of an International Longshoremen’s Association strike...

Cosco Container Lines, one of the four carrier members of the CKYH Alliance, has announced several rate adjustments.

The four carrier members of CKYH Alliance have canceled seven voyages on the Asia-North Europe and Mediterranean service loops from the middle of January 2013 through the end of February 2013.

Shanghai is the most popular port of call for the largest container ships...

Container trailer operators serving the APM Terminals facility in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) launched an indefinite strike...

Evergreen Line, “K” Line, Dubai-based Simatech Shipping and South Korea’s STX Pan Ocean expanded their joint intra-Asia liner service...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers named two contractors to remove rock pinnacles at Thebes, Ill.

India’s exports in November were valued at $22.3 billion, a 4.17 percent decrease from $23.3 billion in November 2011. Imports in November were worth $41.6 billion...

The U.S. trade deficit was $42.2 billion in October, widening 5 percent from $40.3 billion in September, reported the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Hanjin Shipping is introducing a new West Australia Express service (WAX), effective the middle of January.

As ocean shippers and carriers prepare for the New Year, the foremost issue on their minds is whether carriers will be able to sustain the rate increases they need to rebuild their balance sheets, but the early signs are not encouraging.

When the Panama Canal’s third set of locks opens sometime in mid-2015, it won’t be the last time the Panama Canal Authority expands the canal, former administrator Alberto Aleman Zubieta says.

The ongoing dispute between Japan and China over an East China Sea island chain will continue to cast a shadow over the Japanese economy and trade outlook into next year, according to leading operators and analysts.

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett won authorization from ILA delegates to call a strike if a bargaining impasse isn’t settled before the union’s contract expires Dec. 29.

The 2012 U.S. corn crop is high quality and improves upon last year’s good marks across a range of test factors, despite the worst drought in decades this year...

German ocean shipping company Hamburg Sud will launch a direct liner service between North America, Central America and South America on Jan. 1, replacing the current Cartagena-California service.

Container industry hopes that the current glut of vessel capacity might come into balance with demand by 2015 appear to be doomed.

Nineteen U.S. agricultural associations have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to use his authority to maintain navigation on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Cairo, Ill.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association and National Retail Federation have urged the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance to reach...

The Dutch Coast Guard today pulled a fifth body from the North Sea after the sinking of a car carrier that collided Wednesday with a container ship 40 miles southwest of the Port of Rotterdam.

The lead negotiators for striking office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach say they negotiated a good contract that their membership will be able to live with.

Transportation and logistics company Crowley Maritime Corp. today appointed Frank Larkin to senior vice president and general manager of logistics.

Container transportation company APL today introduced a new weekly East Asia service connecting Japan and Thailand, through a vessel sharing agreement with Hanjin Shipping...

CSCL and Cosco are unlikely to merge their container operations anytime soon, according to leading analysts.

Striking workers from the Office Clerical Unit of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63’s and employers at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have reached a tentative deal on a new contract, ending the strike that has crippled operations at the two ports since last week.

Chilean Fresh Fruit Association today named Karen Brux North American managing director of the trade group.