Container Shipping News

Shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway increased 15.5 percent in tonnage during 2010, according to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation.

The ports of Antwerp, Amsterdam and Rotterdam are considering a joint bid for the German government's stake in Duisburg, the world's biggest inland port.

The Port of Antwerp hailed a new labor agreement with dockworkers as a major breakthrough in its bid to boost breakbulk cargo volume.

Dave Akers is trying to sort out what’s real and what’s not in all of last year’s ocean carrier announcements of new peak season surcharges on the trans-Pacific starting Jan. 1.

Shipping industry leaders are underwhelmed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s decision on a general plan for altering the Bayonne Bridge to allow larger ships to pass underneath.

U.S. containerized trade with Asia will grow over the next two years despite possible macroeconomic bumps, PIERS forecasts in its latest quarterly Trade Horizons report.

The stunning increase in super-post-Panamax container ships provides carriers with economies of scale and a tricky management challenge.

Before last October, the U.S. had exported $8 billion in goods to China in a single month only once: December 2009, at the beginning of the economic and trade recovery. In October, the U.S.

Flexi-Van Leasing will add Jacksonville to the list of South Atlantic depots where the company offers its FlexiDay program for daily chassis rentals to motor carriers.

India’s Port of Chennai, rattled by serious congestion since mid-November, faces more delays as a three-day local festival holiday begins Friday.

Hamburg Sud North America on Thursday announced the realignment of its top management team. Three executives assumed new responsibilities.

India plans to spend an estimated $110 billion to develop ports and shipbuilding by 2020 as it aims to expand its overall ocean cargo-handling capacity to 3.2 billion tons and implement major reforms

The members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association announced Thursday a series of general rate increases over

The Port of Los Angeles capped a year of record containerized exports with a 5 percent increase in December over December 2009.

Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to post a year-to-year gain of 8 percent in January and to rise modestly during the first half of the year, the National Re

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Port Klang, Malaysia's largest container port, expects double-digit growth in cargo this year, the Port Klang Authority said.

Crowley Maritime named Tony Otero vice president of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba liner services.

The global container industry is headed for long-term growth, thanks to increasing population and incomes in developing countries and a tendency for world trade to expand faster than GDP, the head of

The Port of Charleston will move to a single-gate operating system on Jan. 18 to streamline operations, the South Carolina State Ports Authority said Wednesday.

A commission representing South Carolina's interests in navigational issues on the Savannah River aired its objections to plans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deepen the Savannah harbor.

The Federal Maritime Commission is ordering three global vessel alliances to provide more timely reports on changes in vessel capacity in the U.S. trades.

Hapag-Lloyd said Wednesday it will apply emergency congestion surcharges on all containerized cargo moving through India’s Port of Chennai.

Crowley Maritime promoted David Nickless to vice president of finance and planning for Crowley's shipping and logistics business line.

India’s exports jumped 36.4 percent in December to $22.5 billion, the highest year-over-year growth rate in 33 months, according to provisional trade figures released by the Commerce Ministry.

DP World opened its new container terminal in Port Qasim near Karachi in Pakistan on Wednesday.

All dockworkers and a large number of port staff in Le Havre joined a national strike Wednesday shutting down shipping terminals at France's largest container port.

TRAC Intermodal extended its web-based TRAC Connect program to the South Atlantic.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will close all its marine terminals on Wednesday as the port braces for a winter storm expected to drop up to a foot of snow on the region.

Drewry Shipping Consultants is forecasting average ocean freight rates on major east-west trade lanes will decline 7 percent this year as large ocean carriers once again gear up for a fight for market

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Chilean carrier CSAV is adding the Port of Savannah to the port rotation of its all-water service from Asia to the U.S. East Coast, the Georgia Ports Authority said Monday.

Container throughput handled by Singapore-based port operator PSA International increased 14.4 percent to 65.12 million 20-foot equivalent units at its port projects around the world in 2010.

Some ocean carriers are suspending delivery of hazardous materials at Thailand ports because of a new Thai regulation requiring advance payment of insurance.

Mediterranean Shipping Company announced a general rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe and the Mediterranean, starting Feb. 1.

Shanghai overtook Singapore as the world's busiest container port in 2010, helped by continuing growth in Chinese trade and the business generated by the World Expo it hosted last year, the city gover

The best news for many breakbulk and project operators looking toward 2011 is that plenty of new capacity is entering the market.

By any measure, 2010 was as good a year for container shipping as 2009 was bad. U.S. containerized ocean trade returned with a vengeance, growing in the double digits.

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