Container Shipping News

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

Mediterranean Shipping Co.

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.

Amid rampant fears of a “double-dip” a year ago, we predicted — correctly — the U.S. economy would not backslide into recession.

For centuries, seaports throughout the Western Hemisphere have served as economic lifelines, handling the export of goods and services worldwide and delivering prosperity for those living in the regio

For U.S. importers in the trans-Pacific, getting goods out of Asia in 2011 may amount to a case of you-get-what-you-pay-for.

Containerized ocean carriers enter 2011 riding a wave of upbeat news.

It’s been almost 11 years since I left the public sector after 21 years at Customs headquarters in Washington as a trade compliance attorney to begin my second career in the private sector.

Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr.

Container throughput at the Port of Le Havre increased 5 percent during 2010 to 2.4 million 20-foot equivalent units, compared to slightly more than 2.2 million TEUs in 2009, when container traffic de

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and APL launched a three-year trial of a seawater scrubber technology that promises significant reductions in harmful emissions from the auxiliary engines of co

The volume of containers moving in and out of the Port of Rotterdam returned to what it termed “normal” levels in 2010.

Memphis-based Dunavant Enterprises acquired majority interest in Trans Gulf Transportation, a Houston company specializing in regional and local intermodal drayage and trucking operations.

China Cosco Holdings said it expects to close its books on 2010 with record net profit driven by global economic recovery and a healthier market for shipping.

A consortium of four carriers plan to start a new weekly service between Northern Europe and the east coast of South America in March.

The volume of containers handled by the port of Singapore increased 9.9 percent in 2010 to 28.4 million 20-foot equivalent units from 25.9 million in 2009, according to preliminary estimates released

Japanese forwarder Yusen Logistics at an extraordinary board meeting on Wednesday promoted Hiromitsu Kuramoto to president and representative director, effective April 1.

After two months in which it increased its bunker surcharges, Mediterranean Shipping Co. will lower the surcharges slightly for imports into the U.S. as of Feb. 1.

The Harbor Trucking Association of Southern California, in a brief filed Wednesday with the U.S.

The Port of Montreal reported a 6.1 percent increase in container traffic for 2010, outpacing growth in dry and liquid bulk cargoes.

The Intermodal Association of North America elected a chairman, vice chair, treasurer and five directors, the board announced Jan. 5.