Container Shipping News

OOCL confirmed Tuesday that it has been using low sulfur fuel in Hong Kong since the beginning of the year as part of the Fair Winds Charter, a voluntary shipping industry initiative.

Port Manatee is set to receive $9 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation as part of the second round of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant program.

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Jacksonville increased 10 percent to a record of 826,580 20-foot equivalent container units in fiscal 2010 ended Sept.

Canadian National Railway and North America Stevedoring Company, a unit of Quebec Stevedoring, said they will soon build a multi-modal steel trans-loading facility in Chicago, to tap what is already t

CSAV said it will restart its services to West Africa next month with the introduction of the West Africa Explorer service between South Africa and Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM is conducting trials of a new eco-container manufactured with non-wood composite flooring.

OOCL announced the second phase of its policy to drop chassis coverage as part of its services on Monday, adding seven cities to the areas where it will no longer provide equipment for trucking ocean

The Port of Charleston received its first ship in a joint service between North Europe, the U.S. Gulf and Mexico with the visit of CSAV’s Box Voyager.

Hamburg Sud is adopting the EquipmentRepair system from International Asset Systems to manage its global container maintenance and repair program.

OOCL introduced an application called Mobile Rates of Exchange on Nov. 1 that gives shippers access to inbound and outbound rates of exchange for a particular port from their cell phones.

With more large retail store chains demanding “greener” supply chains, Maersk Line is becoming the first shipping line to receive independent verification of its CO2 emissions data, vessel by vessel.

Breaking with other container lines in the World Shipping Council, the chairman and CEO of Mediterranean Shipping Co. in the U.S.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will start charging a higher bunker adjustment factor next month on all cargo it carries on its Capricorn Service from Southeast Asia to Australia and New Zealand.

Hanjin Shipping, which operates five Asia-North Europe loops jointly with CKYH, said it will skip one loop in January and plans to skip more voyages on the other four loops to adjust capacity to lower

The port of Marseille is clearing a backlog of more than 60 ships after dockworkers at the Fos-Lavera oil terminal ended their month long strike over working conditions.

Japanese forwarder Yusen Logistics said its net profit surged 756.4 percent in the six months ending Sept. 30 from a year earlier to $26.4 million as economic recovery in Asia outpaced sluggish U.S.

APL will launch weekly intra-Asia service this month linking China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

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Cai Lan International Container Terminal, a joint venture between Cai Lan Port Investment Joint Stock Company and Carrix, entered into a loan agreement with a consortium of lenders and plans to move f

China Shipping Container Lines reported third quarter net profit of $322 million as revenue more than doubled to $1.7 billion.

China Cosco Holdings said it had third quarter net profit of $314 million, compared with a loss of $106 million a year earlier, as higher container volume and rates offset weakness in the company’s bu

Japan’s three largest ocean carriers raised their profit forecasts for the next six months as they reported improved results for the July-September quarter.

Shipping Corporation of India substantially increased profit in the second quarter by eliminating losses from its container operations and markedly improving gains in bulk operations.

CMA CMA added a new import call at Rotterdam on its recently launched French Asia Line service in a move it says will cut transit times between Asia and North Europe.

France's sovereign wealth fund is considering an investment in indebted French shipping company CMA CGM alongside Turkish conglomerate Yildirim, an FSI spokesman said on Thursday.

Hapag-Lloyd will start using a fuel-saving system designed by Eniram, a Finnish software and engineering firm that provides dynamic decision support systems for the shipping industry.

CMA CGM's Victory Bridge's upgraded service will start calling at the Port of Miami in November, providing a new service linking North Europe to the U.S.

Maersk Line, Limited, the U.S. subsidiary of A.P. Moller-Maersk, will help implement a U.S.

Container shipping is likely to see “moderation” in container freight and charter rates until at least 2013 as capacity rises faster than demand, Seaspan Corp. CEO Gerry Wang said.

The Colonel’s Island Terminal in the Port of Brunswick recorded its highest tonnage volume ever in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010, as agri-bulk and automobile shipments rebounded from the 2009 re

A marine terminal executive at the Port of New York and New Jersey questioned whether the port’s infrastructure will be ready to handle larger ships that may come to the port with the expansion

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Cosco Pacific, the third-largest terminal operator in Asia, more than doubled its profit in the third quarter because of the revival in container volume and higher freight rates.

Canadian customs broker Livingston International, looking for leadership to expand its business in North America, named former Maersk Inc. Chairman John Clancey chairman of the board of directors.

Hapag-Lloyd plans to raise an additional $210 million from private investors as a part of a refinancing following strong demand for the German ocean container carrier's $700 million bond issue in earl

Shipyards are due to deliver 278 container ships of 1.42 million 20-foot equivalent units capacity in 2010 following record deliveries in the third quarter, a leading analyst forecast.

Braemar Shipping Services, the UK-based provider, on Tuesday reported its pre-tax operating profit increased 3 percent to $11.4 million for the six months ended Aug.

Horizon Lines said Monday it will add some 12,500 new containers to its international and domestic shipping network to support the launch of its new weekly liner service between China and the U.S.

Fesco, owner of Russia's biggest ocean container carrier, reported first half revenue jumped 34 percent from a year ago, driven by gains at its shipping, logistics, rail and ports units.