Container Shipping News

European world trade will maintain its growth next year despite various austerity packages introduced in countries with excessive debt, according to Global Port Tracker.

APL Logistics is starting a service that trucks containers the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh to Vietnam’s Port of Cai Mep in Vietnam.

London — Maersk Line is settling a $13.9 million lawsuit by British retailer Argos claiming the Danish ocean carrier breached its contract with the shipper for Asia-Europe transport.

Shippers, you’re on notice: Even if your cargo isn’t destined for Europe, effective Jan.

A crime watchdog agency’s hearings on New York-New Jersey port labor practices will echo in the next round of longshore contract negotiations.

The Waterfront Commission is unique to New York-New Jersey, and its history has been intertwined with labor at the port for more than half a century.

Shippers are more likely to find supply and demand in better balance going into the new year, a year after burgeoning U.S.

When 2010 opened, container shipping analysts predicted the federal stimulus program and rebuilding of retail inventories would drive rapid growth in the first half of the year, but imports would slow

China said Friday it was sending a warship to help a COSCO Shipping cargo ship that was attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean near East Africa.

Shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific announced a target Friday of increasing freight rates $400 per 40-foot container to the U.S.

In a big legal victory for the Port of Philadelphia, a federal judge says the Army Corps of Engineers can proceed with plans to dredge 102 miles of the Delaware River to provide the port with a 45-foo

All terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey will be closed Thursday Nov. 25 for Thanksgiving Day.

The state-owned Shipping Corporation of India will launch a container service between the Indian subcontinent and East Africa, starting at the end of November.

International Longshoremen’s Association official Harold Daggett said there’s nothing wrong with off-contract deals that the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor says provide favored d

Some drayage companies in Southern California are violating the spirit, if not the letter of the Los Angeles and Long Beach clean-truck requirements, and the ports intend to end these practices soon.

The American Trucking Associations petitioned the U.S.

The state-owned Shipping Corporation of India plans to conduct a share sale on Nov. 30 that could raise up to $320 million for buying new containerships and tankers.

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Hapag-Lloyd will suspend its weekly Antwerp-New York shuttle service from mid-December in an extended winter program "until the expected market volume returns."

The global container ship order book grew in October for the first time since July 2008 as new orders outpaced deliveries.

MOL formed a tugboat company in Vietnam in a joint venture with two local companies.

The Port of Long Beach is joining a Calif.-based developer to test zero emission drayage and terminal tractor vehicles.

At least 18 large shippers may pursue their own antitrust cases against U.S.-Puerto Rico carriers instead of joining in a $52.25 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Horizon Lines, Sea

CMA CGM will extend its Black Pearl service from the U.S. in response to growing market demand in the Caribbean and on the West Coast of South America.

A supply chain executive at J.C. Penney says the retailer hopes to see ocean carriers and logistics operators provide 53-foot containers for U.S.

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An Indian forwarder filed a complaint with the Federal Maritime Commission against Damco USA and its Danish parent A.P. Moller-Maersk.

A sudden strike by container truck drivers Monday morning paralyzed cargo movements to and from India’s Port of Chennai, the country’s second-largest container gateway.

The port of Rotterdam Nov. 16 announced a once-only "recovery" rebate of 3 percent on tariffs for ocean going ships and inland river barges calling at Europe's biggest port.

Hamburg boosted container traffic 10.7 percent in the first nine months of the year from a year ago but trailed growth at its larger rivals Rotterdam and Antwerp.

Hapag-Lloyd swung to a record operating profit of $361 million in the third quarter from a $253 million loss a year ago on higher cargo volume, soaring freight rates and lower costs.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach recorded combined import growth of 15.4 percent in October, indicating some staying power as growth slowly slips back from an August peak in the shipping season

Trailer Bridge reported a narrow $6,876 net profit for the third quarter, compared with $1.7 million a year earlier, as the carrier’s revenue fell 3.4 percent to $29.3 million.

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Crowley Maritime promoted Jose "Pache" Ayala to the position of general manager for operations of its liner services group in Puerto Rico.

Brambles, the world's biggest supplier of wooden freight pallets, is buying IFCO Systems, the largest provider of reusable plastic containers, for around $1.3 billion.

Horizon Lines plans to start express shipment of intermodal containers to several inland U.S. cities when it begins its Five Star Express trans-Pacific liner service from China next month.

HHLA, Hamburg's biggest stevedore, boosted container traffic 15.4 percent in the first nine months of 2010 from a year ago as ocean carriers added services and Baltic feeder shipments recovered strong

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Savannah in October increased 16.7 percent to 273,296 20-foot equivalent units compared to the same month last year, the Georgia Ports Authority said.

Thomas J. Bethel, president of American Maritime Officers, and William A.