Container Shipping News

Vessel traffic and total tonnage declined at the Panama Canal during the quarter ending June 30, the Panama Canal Authority said Tuesday in a rare report of slowdown in the maritime industry's year of

The Containership Company will add the Port of Ningbo to its trans-Pacific service from China to Los Angeles, effective Sept. 10.

Container volume at the Port of Charleston increased 26 percent in July over the same month last year, giving the port its strongest month since October 2008.

Container volumes at California’s ports increased in July over the same month last year, with imports leading the way.

Union workers at India’s Port of Cochin Tuesday called a 72-hour strike, severely disrupting operations and cargo movements in the country’s southeastern region.

Evergreen Marine, operator of the world's fourth-largest container carrier by capacity, swung to a profit of $129 million in the second quarter ended June 30 from $62.2 million loss a year earlier.

Air freight forwarding grew at nearly triple the rate of ocean forwarding in the first half of 2010, a sign of volatile swings in capacity following last year’s contraction in shipping volume, a

Duisburg, the world’s largest inland port, boosted first-half container traffic by 29 percent from a year ago, almost double the growth at Europe’s top box hubs Rotterdam and Antwerp.

Hamburg’s container traffic edged up 4.3 percent in the first half of 2010 from a year ago, as Europe’s No.

HHLA, Hamburg’s biggest stevedore, raised its growth forecast for the year, saying it now expects container traffic to expand more than 10 percent in 2010 and operating margins will be 15 percen

Neptune Orient Lines said it finalized an order on Monday to build two new container ships with capacities of 10,700 20-foot-equivalent units that will be delivered in 2012.

CMA CGM took delivery on Monday morning in South Korea of the CMA CGM Corte Real, a very large container ship with a capacity of 13,830 20-foot equivalent units that is the third in a series of eight

Rickmers Maritime Trust, the Singapore-based container ship owner, reported on Monday second-quarter profit plunged 88 percent to $610,000 from $5.22 million in the same period of 2009 as one-time res

Container volume at APL grew 18 percent in the four weeks ending July 23 from the same period last year as rising rates pushed revenue per 40-foot container up 39 percent, the shipping subsidiary

Was it Christmas in July? Forecasters say this year’s double-digit growth in U.S.

The Brussels-based organization that lobbied the European Union on behalf of liner shipping companies ceased those efforts last month but is staying open as a trade association.

Orient Overseas Container Line and Hanjin Shipping returned to profitability in the second quarter and say they’re cautiously optimistic the good times will continue.

While most of the country wilts under stifling heat, U.S. exporters shipping to Asia are enjoying a rather pleasant summer.

APL can’t get vessels back into the water fast enough.

After roaring out of the gate at the beginning of the year with container ships sailing full in both directions and rates more than doubling over the last year, demand in the trans-Atlantic trades is

Manufacturing, wholesale and retail inventories rose in June, reinforcing claims that the wave of goods restocking benefiting t

The Port of Portland closed on a 25-year lease of its container and breakbulk facilities at Terminal 6 to ICTSI Oregon, a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services Inc.

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Retail and food services sales increased 0.4 percent from June to July, according to a report Friday morning from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Hapag-Lloyd on Friday said it stopped accepting hazardous cargo bookings to and from India's Port of Mumbai, effective immediately.

India's two biggest ports, the Jawaharlal Nehru Port and Mumbai Port, conducted limited operations on Friday.

Surging international cargoes were the biggest driver in the second quarter for rail hauls of intermodal containers and trailers, said the Intermodal Association of North America.

OOCL is buying slots on a new weekly service between Antwerp and New York that Hapag-Lloyd will start in September.

Chile's CSAV posted $69 million in second quarter profit and said it finished the first half of the year with a $36.8 million net profit, compared with a $402 million loss in the first fix months of 2

The volume of containers handled by the Port of Rotterdam increased by 17.7 percent in the first six months of the year, the Rotterdam Port Authority reported Thursday.

State-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India announced the launch of train services between the ports of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), Mundra and Pipavav.

India's biggest container port resumed partial operations on Thursday, ending the shutdown caused by the collision of two ships in its main channel last Saturday.

Icelandic carrier Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics said it will increase the frequency of its new Oslofjord service to weekly from biweekly at the end of August to accommodate demand for refrige

The U.S. trade deficit widened in June to its highest level since October 2008 as exports slipped 1.3 percent while imports hit a record high, the Commerce Department said.

Hapag-Lloyd earned record second-quarter operating profit as the German ship line’s volume rose 7.8 percent and average per-container rates jumped 29.9 percent.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will expand its India-Subcontinent-Europe Service, operated jointly with the Shipping Corporation of India, with a direct call at India’s Port of Pipavav, effectiv

The oil leak in the hull of the crippled container ship MSC Chitra was finally plugged on Tuesday, but only after 800 metric tons spilled into the Mumbai harbor channel.

NYK Line North America, which had announced it would stop providing chassis in Oakland, Calif. as of Sept. 1, said it will postpone the action.

China's export volume in July rose 38.1 percent from a year earlier, down from June’s 43.9 percent rate.