Container Shipping News

Demand for ship operators and freight traders remains strong in Europe and Asia, according the annual Maritime Employment Review for the commercial shipping market published Monday by the Faststream R

Japan's exports to the rest of the world grew for the 10th straight month on a year-on-year basis in September, rising 14.4 percent to $72.14 billion, according to preliminary figures released by the

APL said Monday it will begin burning cleaner fuel in every vessel calling at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

DP World reported container traffic at its 50 terminals rose 14 percent in the third quarter from a year ago to return to the pre-recession peak of 2008.

Somalia-based pirates are holding a German project cargo ship they seized off the coast of Kenya — the second foreign vessel captured in the region in as many days.

Mexico is trying to make itself more business-friendly, and it’s embarked on a 12-step program to do it.

Shipping, like life, has leaders and followers. Hanjin Shipping, South Korea’s largest ocean shipping company, falls comfortably into the ranks of the latter.

Dagfinn Lunde is a long-term optimist and a short-term pessimist.

Throughout its 33-year life, Hanjin has leveraged its growth through vessel-sharing agreements with other carriers.

China may have risen to the top of the manufacturing universe, but it hasn’t been able to knock Singapore from its perch as the world’s largest container port.

Container ship line APL continues to make up lost ground. Parent NOL Group posted third quarter net profit of $282 million, a turnaround from a $139 million loss a year earlier.

1. Facilitate Mexican exports to Europe and Latin America by reducing the time it takes to get a certificate of origin, and simplifying the Eligible Products Register.

Shipping lines in the trans-Pacific are prepared to reduce capacity during the winter slack season, and shippers are anxious to hear what their plans are.

The U.S. will impose dumping and anti-subsidy duties on glossy paper from Indonesia and China after the U.S.

Seaspan, which owns container ships and charters them to operators, signed two financing transactions that will enable the company to fully finance ships it has ordered without issuing additional equi

Domestic ocean carrier Horizon Lines said soft mid-year shipping volume produced declines in third-quarter net profit and operating income despite higher revenue from logistics services and fuel surch

Container traffic in Rotterdam increased 17 percent in the first nine months of 2010 from a year ago to 8.4 million 20-foot equivalent units, putting Europe's top container hub on track to match the r

French labor unions called for two more days of nationwide strikes and street demonstrations to protest the government's controversial pension reform plans.

CMA CGM will launch direct service to Vietnam from northern Europe on Nov. 9, deploying the largest container ships to serve the Asian nation.

American wheat is flowing to Europe and North Africa through Great Lakes ports as never before, and Adolph Ojard at the Port of Duluth, Minn., gives credit for that to the Russians abroad and "a bount

Orient Overseas Container Line reported third quarter revenue soared 65.5 percent from a year ago to $1.57 billion driven by sharply higher cargo volume and freight rates across its global network.

Global crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association crept up slightly in September from the same month in 2009.

France's eight largest labor unions met Oct. 21 to co-ordinate strategy for their nationwide protests against government plans to raise the minimum retirement age.

The 8,500-TEU CMA CGM Figaro, the largest CMA CGM container ship ever to call at a Canadian port, will leave Vancouver Thursday for the Far East.

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line is expanding an overseas partnership aimed at expediting less-than-containerload freight shipped to the U.S. from China.

The Grimaldi Group will recommence service between the Mediterranean and West Africa with the launch Oct. 26 of its "Mediterranean Express" service.

A Somali national who pleaded guilty to piracy charges still awaits sentencing after postponement of a hearing in New York Tuesday.

The French government Oct.

The MSC Emanuella, the latest of Mediterranean Shipping Co.’s super sized container vessels, made its first call at the Port of Salalah in Oman on its maiden voyage Wednesday.

Costamare, the Greek charter container ship owner, plans to raise up to $260 million in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

During September, 43 container vessels called at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal in New Orleans, setting an all-time record for the number of container ships arriving at the port in a given mon

The container volume handled by the Port of Charleston in the quarter ended Sept.

Net profit for state-owned Container Corporation of India grew by a mere 2 percent in the second quarter to $47 million as earnings plunged in the core export-import segment amid increasing competitio

Striking French dockworkers, truck drivers and railway employees paralyzed a large swath of the nation's supply chain Oct.

The Somali pirate who led the attack on the Maersk Alabama off the coast of Africa last year will be sentenced Tuesday.

The growth of the intra-Asia container trade lanes will make up for the slower growth of markets in the U.S. and Europe, according to the chairman of Taiwan's Evergreen Marine.

Maersk Line plans to reduce capacity on its Asia-Europe services starting next month and will cut more next year to adjust to slowing demand during the slack winter season.

The parent company of container ship line APL reported third-quarter net profit of $282 million, a turnaround from a $139 million loss a year earlier, as revenue jumped 55 percent to $2.4 billion.

The Port of Jacksonville’s Blount Island Terminal carried on its work this week after a regular inspection of its mile-long pier exposed severe deterioration.