Container Shipping News

Dockwise signed the first contract for the world’s largest heavy-lift vessel with U.S. oil company Chevron for a undisclosed sum.

Container, auto and breakbulk volumes at Georgia’s two deep-water ports surged at double-digit rates in the 12 months of the fiscal year ended June 30, the Georgia Ports Authority reported Monda

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell replaced 10 out of the 11 members on the board that oversees the Virginia Port Authority in an effort to spur lagging volume and revenue.

Containership owner-charterer Rickmers Maritime Trust said Monday that its net profit in the second quarter surged by 1,302 percent year-over-year to $8.55 million, while its revenue increased 3 perce

Severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) spurred major ocean carriers to skip calls at the port and reroute ships to Mundra, a privately-owned cargo hub farth

In their original proposal for the 2011 contracting season, ocean carriers announced through the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement discussion group they intended to impose a $400 peak-season surcha

The AFL New England made its inaugural call at Boston on July 19, officially kicking off the vessel’s Halifax-Portland, Maine-Boston service, the first stage of a marine highway network American

The peak season is at hand in the eastbound trans-Pacific, but freight rates are dropping steadily and carriers are pulling vessels from service.

A Port of Longview, Wash., grain terminal shut down temporarily on Friday when International Longshore and Warehouse Union protesters attempted to prevent vehicles from entering the facility in a stan

Mediterranean Shipping Company will apply a general rate increase on the trade from India to South Africa as part of what it calls a new “rate restoration initiative.”

The largest export coal shipment ever handled by the Port of Mobile sailed early Friday, highlighting the Alabama State Port Authority’s recent investments into the McDuffie Coal Terminal.

The Tampa Port Authority’s board this week agreed to spend $12.9 million to expand the port’s container-handling capacity and inland connectors.

The largest Maersk Line container ship ever to call Indian shores arrived Thursday at the Port of Cochin, a major cargo hub on the India’s southeast coast.

Norway’s Star Reefers swung to an $11.3 million second quarter net loss from a year-earlier profit of $3.8 million, as spot market rates fell, fuel costs rose and container carriers targeted the

The Port of Le Havre said Hanjin Shipping resumed service between Japan and the French port on July 15 after several years without any Japanese service to the French port.

"K" Line will join a vessel-sharing agreement next month that is currently operated by Evergreen Line and Simatech on the booming trade lane between the Far East and Indian subcontinent.

Singapore-based container carrier APL will impose a peak-season surcharge on all cargo shipped from Asia and the Middle East to the United States and Canada, starting Aug. 1.

OOCL told its customers it will once again delay its peak season surcharge in the eastbound Pacific trade for another two weeks until Aug. 15.

Japan’s trade balance swung back into the black in June amid growing signs of a recovery in exports hit hard by the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

A four-liner consortium will upgrade their joint vessel-sharing agreement between the Far East and South and West Africa to a weekly service in August, and add an additional Singapore call on west and

The largest container ship to ever call the Port of Charleston, the MSC Bruxelles, docked at the Wando Welch Terminal on Wednesday.

Four hundred and forty-eight container ships with a combined capacity of 2.78 million 20-foot equivalent units are scheduled for delivery in 2011 and 2012, adding enormous capacity well ahead of growt

Container traffic at the port of Marseille shrunk 9 percent in the first half of 2011 from a year ago largely due to

CSAV’s volume of transported containers fell by 10 percent in June from May of this year, but the average revenue per container increased.

The Port of Antwerp’s container handling increased 4.3 percent year-over to 20-foot equivalent units in the first six months of 2011, port authority said Wednesday.

Japan will extend the Self-Defense Forces’ anti-piracy mission in the waters off Somalia for another year starting July 23.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will be the anchor customer of a new terminal at the Port of Lome, Togo, with annual capacity of 1.5 million 20-foot equivalent units, according to a published report.

The Indian Navy foiled an attempted pirate attack on a Greek merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden between Yemen and Somalia, the navy’s western command said.

Maersk Line will start a new service between Ecuador and the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea in September that will call at Novorossiysk.

Orient Overseas Container Line is forecasting a “disappointing” full year even after the shipping line's second-quarter container volume and revenue increased

Maersk Line is postponing by two weeks the implementation of the peak season surcharge that it planned to apply on East Asia-U.S. East Coast cargo July 15.

Ocean carrier CMA CGM announced will impose a series of rate hikes and peak season surcharges on Asia-Europe trade lanes in August even as lines confront a glut of capacity that has

The American Association of Port Authorities will work with the Department of Commerce to help small and medium-sized businesses export goods to overseas markets, part of President Obama’s goal

APL will apply an emergency congestion surcharge on imports containers at India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), and other carriers are expected to follow as ships clog the country&rsqu

The Toy Shippers Association partnered with Laufer Group International, integrating the company as its official non-vessel operating common carrier.

A federal judge threw a new twist into the battle over clean-trucks programs at Southern California ports, ruling the Po