Container Shipping News

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

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission Monday approved a schedule by which harbor trucking companies next year must begin phasing employee drivers into their fleets, with 100 percent employee drivers requi

Marine terminal expansion almost came to a halt last year during the global trade recession, but construction of container terminals must resume soon or capacity shortages are likely to occur in some

Japan's trade surplus with the rest of the world narrowed for the first time in 15 months in August as imports grew faster than exports, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Minist

Maersk Line is increasingly serving Africa and South America with direct services from Asia as quickening economic growth in emerging markets forces the world's largest ocean container carrier to adju

Standard & Poor's raised the rating on Zim Integrated Shipping Service's bonds four grades to BB+ following its return to profit in the second quarter of 2010.

The American Trucking Associations at the weekend filed its formal appeal with U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

Someone forgot to tell importers that the peak shipping season was already over.

In the first progress report on its ambitious National Export Initiative, the Obama administration rapped a solid base hit, but business leaders are looking for home runs.

The World Shipping Council elected Kenji Mizushima, CEO of NYK's Global Liner Management Division, to its board at its semi-annual meeting in September.

Germany's DB Schenker Rail launched a project to create a Europe-wide system to supply and control rail freight transport aimed at boosting the industry's share of the maritime container market.

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India plans to spend an estimated $4 billion on fleet expansion over the next five years.

Trans-Pacific container lines formed a 16-member shipper advisory board to discuss solutions to problems that provoked complaints by exporters of agricultural goods and other commodities.

Rep. James L.

A.P. Moller-Maersk Thursday said it completed a five-year $6.75 billion syndicated revolving credit facility before an existing facility matures.

The Federal Maritime Commission Bureau of Trade Analysis is preparing a list of questions for shippers, carriers and intermediaries in connection with its study of the effect of removing European carr

The International Group of P&I Clubs, the subject of a European Commission antitrust investigation, is not a cartel, said the chief executive of a New York-based protection and indemnity club.

APM Terminals, which owns and operates a terminal concession in the Brazilian Port of Itajai, will take over from the Itajai Port Authority the 895-foot Berth 2, which the Brazilian government reconst