Container Shipping News

Port Metro Vancouver handled a record volume of 2.5 million 20-foot equivalent units of containers in 2010, a 17 percent increase from the previous year.

The volume of containers handled by India’s Port of Mumbai climbed 35 percent year-over-year in the nine months ending Dec. 31, the port authority said in a statement.

Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world expanded for the second consecutive year in 2010, widening 153.4 percent to $82.56 billion, as exports grew faster than imports, according to prelimina

More than 300 barges are still trapped on the River Rhine in Germany more than two weeks after a ship carrying 2

Infrastructure remains a challenge for ship lines, says Juergen Pump, senior vice president of Hamburg Sud North America.

Port Corpus Christi passed an important hurdle Wednesday in its quest to move ahead with the huge Las Brisas electric generating plant that Chase Energy plans to build at the Texas port.

The Federal Maritime Commission is stepping up its attention to ocean carrier practices, voting Wednesday to launch a formal inquiry into slow steaming.

The global container market may grow by more than 8 percent this year, according to A.P. Moller-Maersk CEO Nils Smedegaard Andersen.

French dockers and port workers will stage a four-day nationwide strike on Friday, Jan.

Horizon Lines says the eastbound trans-Pacific service it launched in December is providing 15-day transits from Shanghai to Kansas City through Los Angeles.

Korea Line filed for a court receivership on Tuesday in the wake of losses caused by the global oversupply of bulk vessels and low freight rates.

Container volume increased to 343,366 20-foot equivalent units in 2010, a 29.5 percent increase over 2009, at the three-year-old container port of Prince Rupert in remote northern British Columbia.

Rule changes proposed by the Census Bureau would severely limit post-departure electronic export declarations. Only a limited number of agricultural and bulk commodities would be eligible.

Vietnam's Cai Mep International Terminal took delivery of the first two of six super post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes that will enable it to handle the largest container vessels.

DP World reported container traffic rose 14 percent in 2010 from the previous year to an all time high of almost 50 million 20-foot equivalent units as world trade recovered from the global economic r

French ports Jan.

The Jacksonville Port Authority is delaying for as long as two years construction of the new container terminal it will build in North Jacksonville for Hanjin Shipping.

Hamburg Sud North America, joining the push by ocean carrier to narrow equipment services, said Monday it will stop providing chassis to shippers moving containers with merchant's haulage through Phil

The six members of the Caribbean Shipowners Association will hike their bunker surcharge on containerized cargo as of Feb. 27.

Container volumes across Europe ended the year on a high note with estimates for November 2010 reaching just over 3 million 20-foot equivalent units of containers and for 2011 growth in the high singl

Container shipowner Costamare completed financing for a $285 million contract to buy three vessels of 9,000 20-foot equivalent units capacity to be built in China.

The volume of containers moving through the Port of Savannah in calendar year 2010 increased almost 20 percent to a record 2,826,308 20-foot equivalent units, the Georgia Ports Authority said Monday.

Container ship charter rates are edging higher as ocean carriers compete for a limited volume of available tonnage to keep pace with strong cargo demand on key trade routes.

A.P. Moller-Maersk is targeting emerging markets as a growth area for its business in 2011.

A threatened conflict over chassis repairs in Atlantic and Gulf ports appears to have been settled in favor of the International Longshoremen’s Association.

Canada came out of the gate last year with stronger economic growth than its huge neighbor to the south, so its ports benefited from trade volume that rebounded from a mostly dismal showing in 2009.

Cotton exporters feared the worst. The largest U.S. crop in years was hitting the market just as overseas buyers were bidding up prices and demanding rush delivery.

Ocean carriers are losing their bet that they could keep freight rates high this winter during the post-holiday season without cutting capacity, and they could risk losing their antitrust immunity und

The 1998 Ocean Shipping Reform Act redefined the Federal Maritime Commission from a regulator of tariffs to one of the shipping industry.

National retailers and importers call the idea of spreading use of major North American gateways around the continent a four-corners strategy of supply chain management. That puts U.S.

It’s generally accepted that the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences is a good thing — good for developing countries’ exports and good for U.S.

Why should anyone worry about improving bridges between the U.S. and Canada? U.S. imports plummeted 33 percent between from 2008 to 2009, and U.S. exports slid 21 percent.

Crowley and Seaboard Marine, members of the Florida-Bahamas Shipowners & Operators Association, will increase their bunker surcharges on all imports and exports carried under all tariff and service co

India’s Port of Chennai, which is struggling to cope with increased congestion, broke ground on the Chennai-Ennore road connectivity project, a long-standing demand of trade and user associations.

French dockworkers Jan. 21 began a four-day nationwide strike amid warnings of further stoppages as port employers resist union demands for improved working conditions and early retirement.

CSAV, CMA CGM and China Shipping, are upgrading the size and number of ships they operate under a vessel-sharing agreement between Asia, Mexico, Central America and the West Coast of South America.

DHL launched a direct less-than-containerload service from India’s largest container port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Durban, South Africa.

Dry bulk cargo rebounded 33.4 percent in the 2010 season at the Port of Duluth-Superior, driven by strong surges in iron ore and grain that helped other Great Lakes ports as well.

Several current and former International Longshoremen's Association officials were among 18 waterfront figures charged as part of a federal crackdown that U.S.

U.S. steel exports posted a month-to-month increase of 2.2 percent in November despite a decline in shipments to the largest U.S. export markets, Canada and Mexico.