Container Shipping News

The number of idled container ships, which has shrunk rapidly over the past year, is set to increase sharply through the fourth quarter as ocean carriers cull capacity on key routes, a leading industr

NYK Logistics (Americas) said it hired two established industry veterans who are joining the executive leadership team of its transportation division in Jacksonville, Fla. as of Oct. 4.

Hapag-Lloyd placed around $700 million of senior notes in the capital market, $200 million more than originally targeted, amid strong investor appetite whetted by the German ocean container carrier's

The crane barge "BIG JOHN" will stabilize the downed electrical tower at the site of the barge crash that closed

The Houston Ship Channel above ExxonMobil in Baytown was closed to marine traffic Sunday after a set of barges carrying scrap metal collided with a tower supporting a high-voltage electric transmissio

Ship lines that carry most containerized cargo from Asia to North America have formed a shipper advisory board to provide "a long-needed platform for candid, senior-level dialogue."

Crowley Maritime named Carl R. Fox vice president of strategic initiatives and marketing for the carrier’s liner and logistics business units.

Few new industries have attracted as much attention in recent years as wind energy, a business that could bring big shipping business through Gulf Coast ports.

Domenic Veneziano wants to change the way the Food and Drug Administration inspects products and enforces importer compliance. All he needs is a law to give him the authority to do so.

As some of the largest ocean carriers prepare to abandon their practice of providing chassis at U.S.

Market forces that pushed cotton prices to the highest level in 15 years will produce a hectic fall shipping season for exporters.

Steel trade at Gulf ports took a pounding the past two years, mirroring the steep slide in the domestic steel industry and U.S.

Ports, ocean carriers and railroads compete fiercely for market share, but most shippers base their decisions on how to build distribution networks and route freight on one very basic number: the one

When the Container Freight Derivatives Association held its inaugural meeting on Sept. 14 in Shanghai, representatives of several container ship lines were on hand, listening carefully.

The National Industrial Transportation League on Friday threw its support to the Shipping Act of 20

Hyundai Merchant Marine joined the growing list of liner companies that will stop providing chassis to transport containers in and out of U.S. ports.

Ron Widdows, group president and chief executive officer of NOL, and Jon Hemingway, chief executive officer and president of SSA Marine/Carrix, received the 2010 West Coast Connie Awards at a dinner T

China saw the trade explosion coming even before it received final approval to join the World Trade Organization in 2001. A $100 billion exporter to the U.S.

Unionized truckers late Friday called off a four-day strike at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru, allowing ocean containers to move through Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal.

CMA CGM on Friday christened the latest in a series of super-large container ships, the CMA CGM Pegasus, in ceremonies at the Malta Freeport Terminal in the Port of Marsaxlokk.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it will raise the bunker adjustment factor on Nov. 1 for all cargo from Northern Europe, Scandinavia, the Baltic and the Mediterranean including Israel to the U.S.

OOCL plans to increase freight rates for traffic from Northeast Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea) to Australia on Oct. 15.

Container terminals and port trucking companies in the Port of New York and New Jersey were still struggling Thursday in foul weather to clear out the backlog of containers that was piled up at the pi

The prospects for East Coast ports to latch onto a greater share of containerized U.S.

A strike by container truckers in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru entered its third day on Thursday, crippling cargo movements to and from Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, operated by DP

HHLA, Hamburg's biggest stevedore, will end short time schedules for dockworkers in November following an increase in container traffic at Germany's biggest port.

Steel and container volumes rose last month at the Port of Houston. The change followed what port CEO Alec G. Dreyer described as a "good month, bad month" pattern reflecting the overall economy.

Hong Kong-registered T.S. Lines in November will start offering trans-Pacific service by participating in the China-America West Coast Express service of Hainan PO Shipping.

The two-day work stoppage at the six container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey ended early Wednesday afternoon when the Philadelphia ILA local whose picket lines had caused the shutdo

The two-day work stoppage at all six container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey spared the Port of Baltimore despite calls by the Philadelphia chapter of the International Longshoreman

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics on Wednesday named Christopher J. Connor deputy chief executive officer globally.

Russia's largest port operator and stevedore, Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, increased first half profit 21 percent from a year ago even as cargo volume declined.

Container traffic in the Port of New York and New Jersey remained at a standstill Wednesday morning as local

Evergreen Group ordered 10 container ships with capacities of 8,000 20-foot-equivalent units, following an identical order on July 2.

Slowing orders from shippers this fall, particularly for Asia-to-Europe goods, are signaling a “very, very weak” peak shipping season, according to global supply chain operator CEVA Logistics.

A sudden strike by container truck drivers Tuesday morning threatened serious delays to cargo moving through Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru, the count

Rising tolls at the Panama Canal are causing some industry officials to question whether increased costs will cause carriers to avoid the canal after a third set of locks allows transits by bigger shi

Le Havre's container traffic rose 7.8 percent in the first eight months of the year compared with a year ago, bucking a decline in its overall cargo volume but trailing box growth at its main European

East Coast container ports have plenty of capacity to handle the bigger ships that will be coming through the Panama Canal after it completes a third set of locks in 2014 and may not have to deepen th

Ocean container carriers pulled around 100,000 20-foot equivalent units of capacity from the Asia to North Europe route during the Chinese vacation week as freight rates decline rapidly on weaker-than