Container Shipping News

The Maritime Employers Association promised Tuesday to respond to a union settlement proposal on Thursday after locking out about 850 longshoremen at the Port of Montreal this week, causing the port t

Operations at most of China’s Port of Dalian resumed Tuesday as authorities worked to clean up an oil spill from a pipeline explosion that forced the port to shut down for several days.

Officials in Guam are investigating whether any of the thousands of spiders that poured out of a cargo ship at the port got onto land or posed a danger to the island’s environment and native spe

Europe's top port Rotterdam is getting congested as surging container imports from China overwhelm deep-sea terminals and interrupt feeder services to smaller regional ports.

Net profit for state-owned Container Corporation of India fell 3.5 percent from a year earlier to $41.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2010-11 ending June 30.

Neptune Orient Lines, parent of APL, the world’s fourth-largest container line, entered an agreement with Oversea-Chinese Banking and ING Bank for a term loan of $150 million.

Deliveries of new container ships will hit a record monthly high of 200,000 20-foot equivalent units in July, extending a year long influx of capacity that may stall the recent rise in ocean freight r

After falling for 15 months in a row, Japanese export ship orders rose for the seventh consecutive month in June on a year-on-year basis, surging 149.6 percent to 1,590,210 gross tons, according to fi

Contract negotiations between office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach will resume on Wednesday, with representatives on both sides reporting that some progress was m

Maersk Line said it will apply a congestion surcharge on all import containers handled at India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), the country’s largest container gateway.

Hanjin Shipping plans to use its new container terminal at the southern Spanish port of Algeciras as a "beachhead" to challenge dominant European rivals on the West Africa and South America

Employers at the Port of Montreal locked out the 850 members of the longshore union Monday morning, bringing cargo handling at terminals to a standstill.

Container volume at APL grew 29 percent in the shipping line’s June reporting period over the same period a year ago, and yield advanced 32 percent as demand out of Asia picked up steam heading

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will impose a peak season surcharge on all shipments from the Far East to the U.S. East and West Coasts effective Aug.

Maher Terminals is cloning its Prince Rupert terminal, apparently reasoning that what works on the west coast can work on the east coast.

If you’re an industrial property owner near a major airport or seaport, get ready: That strong demand you’re seeing is about to get stronger.

The largest ships capable of transiting the Panama Canal are poised to achieve something container shipping hasn’t seen in years: balanced vessel supply and demand.

Ocean carriers are worried they may become collateral damage as Congress seeks revenge against British Petroleum.

Life is becoming sweeter for container ship lines in general and Mediterranean Shipping Co. in particular.

The threat of a strike loomed over the weekend at the Port of Montreal as the longshoremen’s union and employers held meetings separately Friday to discuss renewal of a labor contract for the un

The Port Newark Container Terminal, which has been experiencing severe truck congestion, will have special gate hours this Saturday, July 17.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is acting as a go-between with carriers and shippers to see if they can find a solution to container shortages for exported products.

The chief financial officer of CMA CGM Jean Yves Schapiro will leave the company at the end of August, the French ocean container carrier said July 16.

Cargo at the Port of Montreal grew sharply this year in two chief areas that bespeak improving markets — containerized cargo to and from Central Canada and the U.S.

Container volume handled by the Port of Antwerp rose year-over-year by16.2 percent in the first six months of 2010 to 4.2 million 20-foot equivalent container units.

The container ship charter market is set for a summer-long rally as ocean carriers, struggling to boost capacity amid surging demand, compete for a shrinking supply of vessels for hire.

Evergreen Line and NYK Line joined a growing list of carriers that are stopping providing chassis for import and export cargo in the United States.

Office workers and waterfront employers on Thursday resumed negotiations for a new contract at terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach, slogging through the tedious process of closing out relatively minor

Traffic at China’s top ten container ports fell in June from the previous month amid doubts over the sustainability of the nation's export surge, according to a leading container shipping analys

Hapag-Lloyd will apply a general rate increase on all cargo moving on its services from the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East to South America East Coast.

Hamburg Sud plans to end its joint service with Zim Integrated Shipping Services from North Europe to Israel in October and launch its own independent service.

The majority of Chinese steel mills are pessimistic about the outlook for steel pricing and production in the current quarter, according to a recent survey of Chinese steel producers conducted by Stee

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru said operations at its three terminals improved considerably over the last two months.

Imports at the Port of Long Beach in June increased 27 percent while exports increased at a more modest rate of 1.8 percent compared to the same month last year.

Imports through the Port of Los Angeles surged 32 percent in June to reach the highest monthly level since August of 2008.

Very large container ships -- with capacities of more than 10,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units -- made 70 calls during the first half of this year at Rotterdam, where they loaded and discharged an ave

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Maersk Line signed a contract with Finland’s Wartsila Corporation to install Slow Steaming Upgrade kits on 34 of its large ocean container vessels.

MOL selected Descartes Systems to help manage its container division's EU Import Control System customs filings.

Cosco Pacific, the Cosco Group’s terminal-operating subsidiary, will take over operations at Greece's Port of Piraeus, the biggest Greek container port, under a $4.2 billion contract.