Container Shipping News

U.S. Customs and Border Protection cleared goods arriving on an APL ship from Japan this week, the first shipment of containerized cargo from post-earthquake Japan.

Richard Hughes said he will not seek re-election as president of the International Longshoremens Association, an action that clears the way for Harold Daggett to take the union’s top post in Jul

The New York Shipping Association is cutting the assessment it collects on containers destined for delivery within 260 miles of the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The chairman of Evergreen Group, Chang Yung-fa, donated $12.35 million of his personal fortune on Wednesday to help Japan with its post-disaster reconstruction.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority earned a profit $217 million in 2010, an increase of more than $14 million, or 6.8 percent, on the previous year driven by record cargo throughput at Europe's biggest p

Maersk Line next week will celebrate the fifth anniversary of its switch from high-sulfur bunker fuel to low-sulfur distillate fuel in its vessels calling at California ports.

OOCL ordered six new ships Wednesday, each with capacities of 13,000 20-foot-equivalent units.

Cosco Pacific, the terminal-operating arm of China Cosco Holdings, said it may put some operations in a business trust following Hutchison Port Holdings Trust's trading debut on the Singapore Stock Ex

Container throughput in the Port of Charleston climbed 7 percent in February over the same month last year, bringing the increase in volume for the first eight months of the South Carolina State Ports

Middle East carrier United Arab Shipping Company announced a "war risk surcharge" on all cargo moving to and from ports in Lib

The Wilh. Wilhelmsen group took delivery of the first of four new roll-on, roll-off vessels built in Japan. The carrier describes them as the most sophisticated ro-ro vessels ever built.

Import volumes at six major North European ports are expected to have increased by 16 percent in January of this year from a year earlier, according to the latest forecast by Global Port Tracker: Nort

A tanker arrived at the Port of Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Wednesday, carrying 380 tons of propane gas from Chiba City, which is adjacent to Tokyo.

DP World, the global ports operator, boosted 2010 earnings 35 percent from a year ago driven by a rebound in container traffic across its worldwide network.

The public listing of shares in German ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd has been delayed due to market volatility.

Ship Finance International on Tuesday revealed details of its reported agreement to buy two container ships

The NYK Group said Tuesday it will offer free international transportation of relief supplies to the Tohoku and Kanto regions of Japan, which were struck March 11 by a

The Commerce Department and the American Association of Port Authorities will combine forces to encourage small and medium-sized businesses to increase exports, Courtney Gregoire, director of the Nati

Maersk Line announced a steep increase in emergency risk surcharges imposed earlier on containers moving via ports in the Indian Ocean Islands and East Africa, starting April 1.

CSAV swung to a full-year profit of $170.8 million in 2010 from a loss of $656.4 million in 2009.

Up to 40 percent of Japan's container traffic would be affected if the risk of nuclear radiation from the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant forces the closure of ports in Tokyo Bay, accordin

The three member carriers of the Grand Alliance are adding a direct Vietnam call at the Cai Mep deepwater port in Vung Tau on Loop D of their Asia-Europe service starting on March 30.

A federal judge rejected the New York Shipping Association's challenge of a port crime watchdog agency's plan to authorize independent monitors.

Container throughput at the Port of Savannah climbed 16.3 percent in February from the same month last year as containerized exports surged and U.S. consumer spending fueled imports.

South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries said Monday that it had won a $711 million order to build six container ships for Hamburg Sud.

The six carrier members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association said they are reducing the size of their upcoming bunker increase on March 27 by $30 per 20-foot equivalent unit.

Japanese automakers plan to resume production at some plants in Japan this week but cautioned that disruptions to international supply chains will continue in the wake of the March 11

Ship Finance International, which owns and operates ships for charter to liner companies, said it would acquire two container vessels from French container shipping company CMA CGM for $342 million.

Crowley Maritime and Seaboard Marine, members of the Florida-Bahamas Shipowners & Operators Association, on Friday announced a two-step increase in bunker surcharges, to take effect on April 17 and Ma

After Japan was hit with an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear energy catastrophe, Toyota quickly halted overtime work at its 13 North American plants on the opposite side of the globe.

The Pacific coast ports of Canada, the U.S.

Horizon Lines is scrambling to contain the damage from its guilty plea and $45 million fine for fixing rates on containerized cargo shipments between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico.

U.S. exports are suffering because of the nation’s failure to perform maintenance dredging on inland waterways, according to Amy Larson, president of the National Waterways Conference.

Shippers and carriers attending the TSA meeting in Long Beach disagree about the level of bunker surcharges.

Still smarting from the shortage of vessel space that delayed shipments a year ago, importers and exporters are demanding more service guarantees in trans-Pacific contracts.

Three industrial trade associations are asking the U.S.

Honda Motor Co. said it will extend a halt in its Japanese production by three days, through Wednesday, and warned U.S.

Alexander & Baldwin warned Friday that the recent surge in global fuel prices stemming from u

Some ocean carriers eliminated stops at the Tokyo and Nagoya ports and other ocean carriers added cargo restrictions and changed ship routings around Japan as the country struggled with badly damaged

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