Container Shipping News

Ocean container carriers will boost capacity between the Far East and the U.S.

Import cargo through the nation’s 10 busiest container ports is expected to increase 6 percent during the first half of this year, the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates said in t

Container ship owner-charterer Rickmers Maritime reported a 31 percent increase in fourth quarter net profit and said it reduced its bank debt by 13.5 percent last year amid a strengthening container

New York state officials agreed to a 20-month delay of stringent rules governing discharge of ballast water from ships entering and exiting the Port of New York and New Jersey.

China is in negotiations over the construction of a rail link across Colombia to rival the Panama Canal.

When Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joe Riley got a few precious moments in front of President Obama at a U.S.

They are both good ol’ boys from the Southeast who returned to native ground after years afield to take on new jobs a little more than a year ago running the two biggest ports in the South Atlan

A year ago, Customs and Border Protection promised to take a new route to completing the Automated Commercial Environment.

American consumers are coming out of hibernation just in time for spring contract negotiations between trans-Pacific carriers and shippers.

A year after the trans-Pacific slack season turned into anything but that, harbor truckers in Southern California are bracing for the slowdowns that come at marine terminals operating with reduced gat

Trouble is brewing in the trans-Pacific trade in the form of Chinese inflation, especially in the main southern manufacturing centers, that shows no signs of slowing.

Importers would see a 60 percent increase in transportation taxes if Congress approves a measure aimed at raising revenue for national freight transportation.

DP World inaugurated the Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal in India's Port of Cochin Friday.

The Port of Oakland is working with the private sector to increase container volume for the benefit of the entire community, Executive Director Omar Benjamin said Thursday.

The Federal Rail Administration approved an $83.7 million loan for the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority that should delay until late 2012 the need for assistance from the ports of Los Angeles

Dockworkers called off their strike at India's Port of Cochin Feb.

French dockworkers Feb. 10 suspended a six-week-long campaign of strikes after port employers agreed to resume negotiations on union demands for early retirement.

The French holding group Bollore is looking to invest $150 million in a dry port in Guinea to ease shipment of goods through the country, the billionaire head of the conglomerate said.

DP World opened a new inland container terminal in ceremonies Thursday in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Wednesday introduced legislation to reduce truck pollution at container ports -- and to make it easier for the Teamsters union to organize harbor truck drivers.

Safmarine is introducing a direct service it calls FMX between the Far East and main ports in West India and Pakistan by offering slots it is buying on a service operated by Simatech, the Dubai-based

Maersk Line and Hapag-Lloyd entered a slot swap agreement for services from the Mediterranean to the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast, effective March 1.

Hapag-Lloyd swung to an operating profit of $133 million in the final quarter of 2010 from a year-earlier loss of $211 million as rising cargo volume and sharply higher freight rates accelerate plans

The widening of the Panama Canal in 2014 could establish South Florida as a gateway for Asia cargo moving to the Southeast, said James Hertwig, president and CEO of Florida East Coast Railway.

India’s Port of Cochin was at a standstill for the seventh consecutive day on Tuesday as port terminal authorities and unions failed to find an amicable solution to labor concerns despite intense nego

Contract negotiations resumed this week in Vancouver between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada and the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association following a government-manda

The Federal Maritime Commission's inquiry into the effects of slow steaming on the maritime marketplace is officially under way. The commission announced the study at its meeting Jan.

Global Ship Lease filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the sale of up to $500 million in shares of its stock.

The port of Hamburg increased container traffic almost 13 percent in 2010 from the previous year, driven by booming German exports, rising imports from Asia and strong growth on feeder services to the

Container throughput at India’s Port of Mumbai surged 31 percent year-over-year in the April-January period, the port authority said Tuesday.

The greatest threat to U.S. trade from the ongoing turmoil in Egypt comes from the impact on operations at the Suez Canal, but U.S.

Los Angeles Port Police Monday announced the results of a sting operation that netted more than $10 million in counterfeit electronics goods, stolen merchandise and bank receipts.

A significant turnaround in the liner segment coupled with tight cost controls helped state-owned Shipping Corporation of India boost net profit 40 percent year-over-year in the third quarter of fisca

Hapag-Lloyd said Monday it will phase out of the business of providing chassis for merchant haulage at ports and at inland intermodal rail terminals on the East and Gulf Coasts and in the Midwest star

Maersk, APL and Hyundai Merchant Marine scored best in on-time reliability among container lines in the fourth quarter, according to a Drewry Maritime Research report that said carriers' overall sched

Dockwise signed a $240 million contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries to build the world's largest heavy-lift vessel.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is accelerating its efforts to get small businesses in the export game, but supporters in industry say the bank needs to make changes to extend its reach.

Jacques Saade’s return to the helm of French ocean carrier CMA CGM completes a Lazarus-like revival of a company tipped as the most likely casualty of the deepest recession in the history of con

Hanjin Shipping’s planned terminal at the Port of Jacksonville is several years from being completed but it’s already busy with activity — just not the cargo handling the Florida por

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