Container Shipping News

For importers of holiday merchandise, it was Christmas in August as well as July.

PRODUCE MARKETING ASSOCIATION: It is an upbeat time. Economies are strengthening, and I think there is a great deal of optimism in the market.

In January 2002, then-Customs Commissioner Robert C. Bonner held up a padlock-like device to an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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There’s perishable and then there is really perishable. Rainier cherries, the cream of the cherry crop, are generally put in the second category and given kid-glove treatment during transport.

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Container terminal operators spend millions of dollars on sophisticated cargo-handling equipment, but at the end of the day, it’s the capture and transmission of data that moves the cargo.

The Alpherium Terminal opened Oct. 1 in the village of Alpen aan den Rijn, making it possible to ship Heineken beer and other products via barge instead of truck to the Port of Rotterdam.

European exports to Asia, North America, India and the Middle East and Australasia/Oceania dropped in August, according to Container Trade Statistics, a British information service.

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Container volume at major ports in India increased 11 percent in the first half of fiscal 2010-11 ending Sept. 30, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement Thursday.

The Ivory Coast's Port of San Pedro plans to invest $522 million together with Mediterranean Shipping Co.

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Russia's port sector is attracting increasing interest from foreign investors as a recovering economy boosts imports of consumer products and capital goods.

The volume of containers handled by India’s Port of Mumbai surged 36 percent in the first half of fiscal 2010-11 ending Sept. 30, the port authority said Wednesday.

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Applied Weather Technology, a provider of ocean voyage routing software, is opening offices in Singapore and Tokyo to expand its services in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Yang Ming Marine will quit providing intermodal chassis to customers at nine locations in the eastern United States.

Container ship lines have yet to prove they can manage vessel capacity well enough to ensure long-term profitability, the chief executive of Japan’s NYK Line said.

Emirates Shipping Line plans to buy slots on the China India Express service operated by Hyundai Merchant Marine between North and Southeast Asia and India.

APL will begin using cleaner-burning fuel in the 85 ships that call at Hong Kong every week, sharply reducing the carrier's emissions at the port.

Safmarine Container Lines reorganized its regional structure to create a new regional unit for its services to and from the Indian Subcontinent.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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