Container Shipping News

Ocean customers in the eastbound Pacific aren’t batting an eye over carrier intentions to increase freight rates by $400 per 40-foot container to the West Coast and $600 to inland and East Coast

Supermarkets and shopping malls don’t have rail sidings, truckers love to point out, but the intermodal industry is moving steadily closer to the store floor.

The Georgia Ports Authority may face more hurdles before a project to deepen the Savannah River to 48 feets gets under way, but it looks like the Army Corps of Engineers may be able to start the proje

A Central America Free Trade Agreement agreement may be the ticket President Obama needs to convince legislators and critics that he’s ready to kick start his administration’s export plan.

A bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration new authority to regulate imported and domestic food chains is a critical piece of unfinished business before the lame-duck 111th Congress.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM, in a broad overhaul of the its troubled finances, said Friday it has a new agreement to restructure its huge debt and also expects to get a new $150 million cash injectio

Israeli ocean carrier Zim turned a $37 million net profit in the third quarter after losing $208 million a year ago as increased cargo volumes, higher freight rates and lower costs helped the company

Maersk Line is close to placing an order for up to 20 container ships that would each be able to transport 18,000 20-foot ocean containers, breaking through industry standards for carrying capacity.

Container line CMA CGM announced an agreement Thursday with Turkey-based investment firm Yildirim Group that will push $500 million into the debt-ridden French carrier.

India's Cochin Port Authority announced plans to extend concessions on vessel-related charges granted at an earlier time to mainline vessels.

Evergreen Line is entering into a vessel-sharing agreement with intra-Asian carrier MMC Transport to launch the Malaysia - Bangladesh Shuttle service.

The Drewry Container Rate Benchmark for trans-Pacific shipping fell 5.7 percent in the week ended Nov.

Matson Navigation, joining the move by ocean carriers to announce price increases early heading into the New Year, said Thursday it plans to freight rates between Hawaii and the mainland by $120 per w

Port Metro Vancouver hit the high point in container traffic in the port authority&rsquo;s nearly three years of existence in October, with volume growing 19.5 percent over the same month a year ago.<

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach approved an update to their ground-breaking 2006 clean air action that calls for a significant reduction in pollution from vessels and line-haul locomotives.

A Bahamas-registered container ship collided with another container vessel Tuesday on the Hooghly river near India&rsquo;s eastern Port of Kolkata.

APM Terminals Pipavav, which operates India&rsquo;s Port of Pipavav, agreed to lease nearly 100 acres of land to Mumbai-based Aegis Logistics.

The end is near for the Federal Maritime Commission&rsquo;s high-profile investigation into carrier capacity and equipment shortages.

Dockwise secured approval from shareholders Nov. 23 for a $106 million share issue to help pay for the construction of a giant vessel with a lifting capacity of more than 100,000 metric tons.

Leading containership charter owner Costamare reported lower revenues and profits in the third quarter, but the company said they are optimistic about future growth.

APM Terminals, the terminal-operating arm of A.P.

The Maritime Administration is providing $4 million to help prevent the spread of invasive aquatic species found in cargo ships plying the Great Lakes and inland waterways, the U.S.

A bitter confrontation appears to be brewing between India&rsquo;s Mumbai Port Authority and user associations over the levy of additional charges on stranded vessels.

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&rsquo;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&rsquo;re on notice: Even if your cargo isn&rsquo;t destined for Europe, effective Jan.

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

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.

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

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&rsquo;s Association official Harold Daggett said there&rsquo;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.