Container Shipping News

Hapag-Lloyd temporarily suspended “acceptance of shipments” bound for Riyadh via the Port of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

APL plans to implement a general rate increase on the westbound leg of Asia-Europe trade, effective July 1.

Long-term container-shipping contracts based on various freight indexes are gaining ground, but their progress is being slowed by a lack of understanding on the part of shippers.

The European Shippers’ Council criticized a maritime industry proposal that containers be weighed before loading on ships as “a false remedy for an ill-defined disease.”

Sluggish economic growth, a weak jobs market and flagging consumer confidence have led Journal of Commerce Economist Mario O. Moreno to lower his forecast for U.S.

The contracting group that is building the new set of locks at the Panama Canal completed the first monolith of the new locks on the Pacific end of the canal.

U.K. marine insurer Standard Club has withdrawn coverage for a Russian cargo vessel said to be transporting attack helicopters and arms to Syria.

Ocean carriers’ failure to fully implement planned peak-season surcharges on the trans-Pacific trades in May has created a two-tier market, according to Alphaliner.

Long-term prospects for the northern European container trades are “strong” despite short-term macro-economic uncertainty in the eurozone, according to a new report from a UK-based consult

Hapag-Lloyd plans to implement a new round of general rate increases on its East Asia services that will take effect July 15.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority approved $146.9 million in capital spending during its fiscal year beginning July 1 and forecast Charleston’s container volume will rise 8 percent during

Container line, labor and terminal operator groups, along with the Danish, Dutch and U.S.

The International Chamber of Shipping urged Chile to continue to allow ocean carriers to cooperate in rate-setting conferences and consortia.

Concerns over a slump in container freight rates are overstated because lines are desperate to avoid a rate war and will suppress box slot supply to maintain profits, according to one leading expert.<

The National Labor Relations Board&rsquo;s regional director filed an unfair-labor-practices charge against the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, saying the ILWU slowed work at the Port of

The National Labor Relations Board&rsquo;s regional office said the International Longshore and Warehouse Union engaged in unfair labor practices by slowing work at the Port of Portland, Ore., in a ju

To Lakshman Achuthan, the question isn&rsquo;t whether the U.S. economy is sliding toward a new recession, but when one will start, if it hasn&rsquo;t already.

U.S.

U.S. importers are learning just how hard it is to kill federal regulation, even when the agency in charge of implementing a law calls it costly and unfeasible.

The fate of the U.S.

When APL books an import load from Asia to an inland destination such as Chicago, Dallas or Kansas City, the container line&rsquo;s logistics experts immediately look for loads to fill the emptied con

Through all its fits and starts, perhaps no other North American intermodal service has been discounted quite like short-sea shipping has.

Strong growth in trade between the U.S. Gulf region and the Caribbean, Central and South America is more than making up for weakening volumes to and from recession-battered Europe.

Don&rsquo;t look for DP World to build or buy new container terminals in the United States anytime soon. That&rsquo;s not sour grapes over the 2006 rebuff by xenophobic U.S.

APM Terminals has taken a 25 percent stake in a project to expand capacity at Ningbo, China&rsquo;s third-largest container port that involves a $500 million investment by Denmark&rsquo;s A.P.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will implement a new bunker adjustment factor on all container shipments from the Far East to both coasts of the U.S. as of July 1.

Singapore-based container carrier APL imposed a peak-season surcharge on cargo shipped from India to the U.S., effective June 15.

If the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach experience congestion during the peak-shipping season this fall, it won&rsquo;t be due to insufficient infrastructure or marine terminal capacity, Southern C

Container volumes at the Port of Long Beach declined 7.23 percent in May compared to May 2011, with imports dropping 9.15 percent and exports down 0.83 percent.

OOCL announced three changes in its management team on Thursday.

Container volumes at the Port of Los Angeles inched up in May along seasonal trends. Imports increased 2.7 percent compared to May 2011, and exports were up less than 1 percent.

U.S. steel exports in April rose 13.6 percent year-over-year but posted their third consecutive month-to-month decline, government statistics show.

Average spot rates on the Asia-Europe trade slipped slightly this week for the sixth week in a row, reflecting the growing amount of new capacity that is being deployed and of

The idle container fleet has dropped by 47 percent in the last three months as freight rates continue to increase, BIMCO said Thursday.

India&rsquo;s trade deficit narrowed 12 percent in May, the second month of fiscal 2012-13, but both exports and imports fell on a year-over-year basis, the Commerce Ministry reported on Thursday.

Standard & Poor&rsquo;s Ratings Services on Thursday lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on CMA CGM&rsquo;s debt to &ldquo;CCC plus&rdquo; from &ldquo;B minus&rdquo;, saying its liquidit

APM Terminals has named Ben Vree executive chairman of its European operations, which account for 36 percent of the A.P.

Rising transportation costs and tight truckload capacity are creating more opportunities for intermodal rai

CSAV said it secured a $90 million 12-year loan from Germany&rsquo;s DVB bank to complete the financing of the last two container ships out of a total of seven ordered from the Samsung Heavy Industri

APM Terminals, on a crane-buying spree, Tuesday ordered 31 ship-to-shore spre