Container Shipping News

An extensive search of a container ship at Newark, N.J., ended this morning without authorities finding any stowaways.

APM Terminals will open a new regional headquarters in Singapore in September to oversee its operations in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent and free its Shanghai office to focus on China and

Indian regulatory authorities cleared a joint venture between Japanese forwarder Kintetsu World Express and domestic logistics group Gati Ltd.

After reviewing objections raised by shipping lines to the toll increases it proposed in April, the Panama Canal Authority postponed the first step of the two-step increase from July until October this year...

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will impose a general rate increase on shipments from Asia to the east coast of South America, starting July 15.

U.S.-based companies’ imports and exports will rise 4.7 percent annually during the next 15 years, led by exports to feed consumer demand in emerging markets, according to a new report by HSBC C

The United Seamen’s Service will present the 2012 Admiral

A key U.S. trade official lashed out at the declining state of U.S.

Federal and local authorities are investigating apparent stowaways inside a shipping container on the CMA CGM chartered container ship Ville D'Aquarius docked at Port Newark Container Terminal, the Co

The Agriculture Transportation Coalition said APL, “K” Line and OOCL shared the top ranking in the organization’s seventh annual carrier performance survey.

Overall confidence levels in the shipping industry, including the container ship market, increased in the three months ended May 2012, to reach their highest point since February 2011, according to th

Hong Kong’s Cosco Pacific, operator of the biggest container terminal in the Port of Piraeus, Greece, is considering further investments in the country as the cash-strapped Athens government pre

Box Ships took delivery Monday of its eighth vessel, the OOCL Hong Kong, a secondhand vessel built in 1995 with capacity of 5,344 20-foot equivalent units.

DP World boosted productivity and capacity at its Aden Container Terminal in Yemen by installing two ship-to-shore quay cranes. The new cranes bring the total number of quay cranes to seven.

The world container ship fleet has topped 16 million 20-foot equivalent units, but the rate of capacity growth is slowing, according to Alphaliner.

Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port’s first quarter earnings soared 48 percent from a year ago as Russia’s largest port operator handled record cargo volume to boost its share of the nation&r

Leading forwarders say sea-air volumes remain stable despite the double dose of fuel surcharges levied on users.

Most shippers expect to decide by midsummer whether to divert cargo from the East and Gulf coasts to avoid possible longshore labor problems this fall, according to a

Oman Container Lines will begin a new service to India on July 3.

With only moderate growth projected in the global container trades for at least two more years, and overcapacity keeping a lid on rate increases, carriers must take innovative steps to reduce the cost

OOCL said it is suspending until further notice the Atlantic Express Shuttle that it operates in a vessel-sharing alliance with Hapag-Lloyd between Hamburg, Antwerp and New York.

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The Federal Maritime Commission is doing its part to promote exports under President Obama’s National Export Initiative by ensuring th

Stacks of Crowley and Seaboard Marine containers at Florida East Coast Railway’s Hialeah Rail Yard near Miami are a sign of the volumes South Florida’s ports see coming down their sea lane

Judging by the recent rash of U.S. air cargo expansion projects, you’d think demand was skyrocketing. It’s not.

After a three-hour hearing Friday in Portland, U.S.

Alfred J.V. “Al” Stanley has joined project and heavy-lift carrier Intermarine as president and CEO, succeeding Andre Grikitis, who will become operating chairman.

An intermodal transfer facility that will serve an expanded Global Terminal at Bayonne, N.J., will receive an $11.4 million federal construction grant under the TIGER program.

The International Chamber of Shipping wants governments in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to resume negotiations on a global agreement to eliminate market-distorting measure

Hanjin Shipping and Hapag-Lloyd will skip their weekly vessel calls at Portland, Ore., until there’s a settlement to a union jurisdictional dispute that has slowed cargo handling at the port.

The biggest concerns of agricultural exporters as the 2012 peak-shipping season approaches are equipment availability, adequate vessel space and volatility of freight rates.

German ocean carrier Hamburg Sud will raise its rates on trades from the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East to Europe, South America and the Caribbean, starting July 1.

On the other side of Southeast Asia’s planning-for-the-future divide from Indonesia is Vietnam, which looks certain to have excess container handling capacity for some time to come.

Turkey’s Yildirim Group intends to exercise its option to buy another 10 percent stake in CMA CGM, which will bring its ownership of the French liner company to 30 percent.

Hapag-Lloyd is suspending its weekly Atlantic Express Shuttle service between New York, Antwerp and Hamburg until further notice “due to the current market situation.

A federal judge will hear arguments Friday on a National Labor Relations Board request for a court order prohibiting the International Longshore and Warehouse Union from slowing operations at the Port

Maersk Line will impose a general rate increase on trades from Latin America to the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East, starting July 15.

FedEx CEO Fred Smith said more shippers are transporting goods via ocean shipping at the expense air carriers, a modal shift reflected in the parcel giant’s recent earnings report.

Russia’s Summa investment and trading group moved closer to a $1.4 billion takeover of Fesco as it prepares to make an offer to minority shareholders in the owner of the country’s largest

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union elevated its battle with the electrical workers’ union and terminal operator ICTSI Oregon a notch by filing a lawsuit in U.S.