Container Shipping News

CMA CGM Group and Emirates Shipping Line upgraded their joint service linking Asia to East Africa by deploying larger vessels “to support the strong and regular growth of this trade."

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An ocean carrier group seeking expanded antitrust immunity for its chassis pools isn’t trying to fix the rates truckers pay for equipment, a former chairman of Consolidated Chassis Management sa

Shippers without specific safeguards in bills of lading who lose cargo from the stranded container

New York City is rebuilding a Brooklyn marine terminal that will handle roll-on, roll-off and breakbulk cargo when it opens in 2012.

The Port of Charleston’s container traffic in September increased 8.9 percent from August and was up 17.6 percent year-over-year.

The Global Port Tracker retail industry shipping report on Monday issued a sharply reduced projection for containerized imports this fall, forecasting just a 2.6 percent increase in container volume a

High costs and sub-par productivity threaten continued growth at the Port of New York and New Jersey, industry leaders warned at the annual Port Industry Day symposium.

Emirates Shipping Line will expand its intra-Asia network by buying slots on a new weekly service between India and China that is slated to start Oct. 29

Ocean carriers and charter ship owners have taken delivery of 154 ships with a combined capacity of more than 1 million 20-equivalent units since the beginning of the year, according to Alphaliner.

Pirate attacks reached an all-time high this year but fewer ships are being hijacked due to tougher policing by international naval forces, according to the International Maritime Bureau.

Japan’s exports of agricultural, fishery and forestry products to the United States grew for the fourth consecutive month in August on a year-on-year basis, rising 4.4 percent to $73.8 million,

Manila International Container Terminal will take delivery of eight gantries in time for the start-up of a new berth at

Port planner John Vickerman sees the expanded Panama Canal's effect on U.S. trade shaking out in either of two ways.

Container ships with capacities of 1,000-2,000 20-foot equivalent container units face uncertain cargo demand and growing competition from larger vessels, DVB Bank’s Research and Strategic Plann

The Port of Antwerp’s container traffic increased 3.7 percent in the first nine months of 2011 from a year earlier, trailing a 7.5 percent increase in total throughput.

Maersk Line and CSX Transportation signed a contract for the railroad to haul the Danish ocean carrier’s discretionary cargo from APM terminal in Portsmouth, Va., to the Midwest.

Kuehne + Nagel’s earnings grew 1.1 percent in the first nine months of 2011 from a year earlier as the Swiss logistics company boosted ocean container and air cargo shipments in a softening mark

APL appointed Wong Siew Loong regional president of its North Asia business, which covers China, Japan and Korea.

Taiwanese ocean carrier T.S. Lines launched a container service earlier this month that connects the Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), India and the Persian Gulf.

A shipping executive warned exporters to plan ahead for their equipment needs because empty containers will be increasingly difficult to secure during the coming winter and spring.

About a year ago, Daniel J. Vandermeulen and his global procurement team at Mattel huddled with the toymaker’s in-house lawyers.

APL’s container volume fell slightly in September from August, while average revenue per container slipped despite attempts to impose a peak season surcharge recommended by the

The catastrophic events triggered by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami in March that devastated large areas of Japan and killed thousands also had an impact on automotive supply chains world

Although most Japanese producers have recovered at home and abroad from the impact of Japan’s March 11 natural disasters, some such as Honda are still struggling because so many of their supplie

Canada and the United States have maintained a peaceful border for almost 200 years, but the peace is occasionally broken by a war of words. This is one of those times. On Oct.

Policymakers believe creating a network of scheduled roll-on, roll-off services across Southeast Asia can reduce transportation costs and spur economic growth in the region.

U.S. GDP is expected to grow by $12 billion as a result of new free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. So why stop now?

Grain exporter EGT and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union continue to cry out for clarity over the union’s contention that EGT is bound by a working agreement with Washington’

The Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s announcement to introduce risk management tools to help shippers trade derivatives comes as the Federal Maritime Commission

Fesco and BLG Logistics established a Russo-German auto logistics joint venture at the port of St. Petersburg to handle imports into Europe’s fastest-growing car market.

Salvage crews battling to contain the environmental damage from the stranded ship Rena leaking oil off New Zealand were unable to resume pumping out fuel Thursday.

“K” Line is starting a new weekly intra-Asia service that will run between North China and Southeast Asia.

CSAV is reconfiguring its two services from Asia to Mexico and West Coast of South America and Central America, the Andex Services Sling 1 and Sling 2.

International containerized trade through Japan’s Port of Yokohama declined 6.3 percent in the first half of this year from a year earlier to just less than 1.4 million 20-foot equivalent units,

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Japanese containerized cargo exports will slow to 0.2 percent in fiscal 2011, which started on April 1, after growing 9.2 percent the fiscal year previous, said a Japanese research firm.

South Carolina’s refusal to grant a permit to deepen the Savannah River is just a bend in the river, say Georgia Ports Authority officials, not a blockade.

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Federal, state and municipal agents said three containers were detained for improper placards among the 252 containers and tanks checked during two days of intensive inspections this week at Horizon L