Container Shipping News

Japan is set to start radiation checks on ships and containers leaving three main international ports in and near Tokyo for foreign ports by the end of this month.

After three volatile years, operators serving the transportation supply chain in the trans-Pacific are gearing up for a solid, though unspectacular peak shipping season, with the main efforts aimed at

Virginia is dangling its 50-foot-deep harbor as a fisherman dangles a lure.

In the world of container shipping contracts, 18 months can seem like an eternity.

Maersk Line, Ltd., the U.S.-flag subsidiary of Maersk Line, won a contract for the operation and maintenance of two ships in the U.S.

The International Longshoremen's Association called off a threatened strike at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Japanese automakers plan to resume production at domestic auto plants this month but said they’re still struggling with shortages of parts and unreliable electrical supplies that will hamper output.

The Federal Maritime Commission’s new rules on non-vessel-operating common carrier Negotiated Rate Arrangements, which will become effective on April 18, establish a new pricing option for licen

In the 13 years since Congress passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, NVOs finally have achieved relative parity with vessel operators in the marketplace monitored by the FMC.

Just where do NVOCCs fit?

The MOL Presence arrived in Hong Kong Friday afternoon after a test found the level of radiation had declined from the previously higher-than-normal level detected after the vessel passed within 70 mi

The Containership Company said weak volume and rates forced it to end niche trans-Pacific service it launched a year ago.

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India surged 9.5 percent year-over-year in fiscal 2010-11, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement Friday.

UPDATE 4/8/11 4:00 p.m. -- The strike was called off Friday afternoon.

The Luksik group, a Chilean mining and investment group, has agreed to pay $120 million for an additional 8 percent of container line CSAV, in addition to the 10 percent it bought last month.

Damco, the logistics arm of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, appointed Humberto Florez to head up the company’s business in Latin America, effective April 1.

APL is extending its North Asia Philippines Express feeder service to cover Central China and Manila in the Philippines this month.

Danaos took delivery of the two biggest container vessels it has ordered to date and the first to be financed under the Greek shipowner's recently agreed refinancing program.

Japan's sea and air cargo exports will sink between 4 percent and 5 percent in the first half of fiscal 2011 from a year earlier in the wake of the devastating

Two federal regulatory agencies, the Food and Drug Administration and Consumer Product Safety Commission, are stepping up their inspection activities to prevent unsafe food products and consumer goods

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Freight shipments jumped 6.9 percent in March, with tonnage increasing across transportation modes, according to the Cass Freight In

DP World, the global container terminal operator, said it will seek shareholders approval for a one-for-20 reverse stock split in a bid to boost its share price ahead of a planned listing in London.

Moody's assigned a provisional Ba3 rating to CMA CGM and judged the outlook for the world's third largest ocean containe

The Port of Houston Authority awarded nearly $35 million in contracts for design and construction of additional entry and exit gates for the Bayport container terminal.

Ocean carriers are committed to ending the 50-year-old practice of supplying chassis to their customers in the U.S., but industry experts predicted it will take several years before equipment supplier

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Japan will hold its sixth round of policy dialogue on maritime affairs with the European Union in Tokyo on Thursday with the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan topping the agenda, the Ministry of Land, I

Shipping research group Clarksons is forecasting worldwide container ship capacity will grow only 7 percent this year and 9 percent next year, a relatively low expansion despite large outstanding orde

MOL merged subsidiaries International Marine Transport and MOL Tankship Management, effective April 1.

TUI confirmed it is talking with potential investors about the sale of its stake in German ocean container carrier Hapag-Lloyd but did not reveal their identities.

Container traffic through India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru reached an all-time high in fiscal 2010-11 ending March 31, buoyed by a strong turnaround in the country’s foreign trade.

Crowley Maritime is restarting the second weekly service to Haiti from the Dominican Republic and South Florida.

Global ocean container traffic reached an all-time high of 560 million 20-foot equivalent units in 2010, driven by surging volume at Chinese ports, according to Alphaliner.

A senior official at CMA CGM says the world's third-largest container line will not participate in a freight rate

The Commissioner of Customs feels the partnership between his agency and the private sector has done a good job in extending cargo security beyond the borders, but more must be done to streamline the

Onyx Investments, an Omani government-owned sovereign wealth fund, took a 15 percent stake in Hapag-Lloyd, an official at the parent company of Onyx said on Monday.

Paragon Shipping unveiled plans to raise almost $200 million through an initial public offering of shares in its recently established container ship unit Box Ships, Inc.

The United Kingdom's Freight Transport Association unveiled a standard maritime contract on Monday the shipper-focused group believes can bring more structure to shipper-carrier relationships that hav