Container Shipping News

Cargo-handling operations in Los Angeles-Long Beach were normal on Monday as a strike by office clerical workers entered its 11th day.

Singapore-based ocean carrier APL said it will apply a congestion surcharge on all containerized cargo shipped from the Middle East to the Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), India’s largest

A requirement for U.S. flag ocean transport is impairing President Obama’s National Export Initiative, according to an export advocacy group.

A.P. Moller-Maersk completed the sale of its roll-on, roll-off freight shipping company Norfolkline to Danish shipping line DFDS on July 12.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM rejected a capital injection from Qatar Holding and will search further for outside investors.

CMA CGM christened its gigantic flagship CMA CGM Christophe Colomb in ceremonies in Le Havre July 12.

Just when importers and exporters were beginning to feel it was safe to ship through Los Angeles-Long Beach, office clerical workers at the nation’s largest container complex went on strik

Importers who last fall vastly underestimated the outlook for global transportation demand this year are having an equally difficult time determining how strong and how long the rally will be.

The freight surge of 2010 is nearing its end, an economic forecaster says.

Tensions increased in the strike by office clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports on Friday as the union picketed a third employer and withdrew its previous wage and benefits proposa

CMA CGM said it will extend its Black Pearl Service between ports on the East Coast of North America and the Caribbean to two new ports in Northern South America as of July 16.

Orient Overseas Container Line effective Aug. 1 will increase its freight rates by $250 per TEU on shipments from Southeast Asia to Australia.

OOCL said Friday that it will put a surcharge on all cargo moving through the Port of Montreal as of July 19 because “reduced water depth negatively affects the loadable capacity of each sailing

Hanjin Shipping is moving to identify and isolate the 5,900 containers it leases from container lessor Unitas to protect its customers against any disruption from its legal dispute with Sumitomo Mitsu

Container traffic at major ports in India for the first quarter of fiscal 2010-11 increased by an impressive 17 percent over the same period last year, according to the latest traffic data released by

Maersk Line confirmed that it is postponing by two weeks the implementation of the increase in the peak season surcharge on Asia-Europe cargo that it announced on June 15.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM and APM Terminals, the Danish port operating company, traded stakes in container terminals in Dunkirk, France, and Mobile, Ala.

Hapag-Lloyd said Friday that Roland Kirch, a member of its executive board and director of development, markets and works, left the company at his own request on June 30.

Hapag-Lloyd will seek a general freight rate increase on all cargo moving on its services from the Indian subcontinent to Australia.

Fiscal reforms, strong commodity exports and a growing role in global markets have made South America more resilient to economic shocks like the 2008-09 recession, and set the stage for recovery in tr

Imports through the busiest U.S.

CMA CGM plans to gradually phase out providing chassis to truckers at terminals throughout the United States on a schedule starting on the East Coast in October and ending on the West Coast in March o

DHL launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting India’s largest container port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) to Los Angeles.

Cargo-handling operations at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were normal on Thursday as the waterfront arbitrator began taking testimony in a formal hearing on the validity of a strike by offi

Chilean carrier CSAV will launch a weekly container ship service at the end of July to connect north and central China with South Africa.

Three major ocean carriers covering the trade to and from India plan to impose an emergency congestion surcharge on all import containers handled at the Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru), the cou

A.P. Moller-Maersk raised its 2010 profit forecast, saying in a statement July 8 that an improvement at its ocean container carrier Maersk Line has been "greater than envisaged."

Negotiations between striking office workers and terminal operators at the Los Angeles-Long Beach ports deteriorated at the end of the first week of the walkout, with the union refusing to budge on it

The third phase of the project to deepen the St. Johns River harbor into Jacksonville is now complete ahead of schedule, the Jacksonville Port Authority said Wednesday.

Container volume moving through West Coast ports increased 14 percent in the first five months of the year.

Maher Terminals is taking an unspecified stake in a long-planned container terminal Melford International Terminal hopes to build in Nova Scotia.

Container shipments from Asia to Europe surged 21 percent in May from a year ago, but eastbound traffic declined for the first time in 2010, according to the latest industry figures.

CMA CGM July 7 announced a series of rate hikes across its global liner network and confirmed a peak season surcharge on the Asia-North Europe route.

CMA CGM plans to reach agreement with new investors over a stake in the ocean container carrier by the end of July, the company said as it unveiled sharply higher first quarter profit and revenue.

The severe backlog of container shipments delayed by the lack of vessel space is hiding the fact that peak season demand may be less than forecast, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants’ late

TUI AG expects its 43.3 percent stake in Germany's biggest ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd to generate higher profit than initially forecast due to a "notable" recovery in global container shippin

OOCL on Tuesday named three senior managers to new positions as of Aug. 1.

The Shipping Corporation of India will apply a new general rate increase on cargo moving on its Indian subcontinent-Europe Service (ISES), effective July 11.

A shipping consultant estimated ocean container shipments from Asia to the U.S. at 1.23 million 20-foot equivalent units in June, a 32 percent increase on a year ago driven by Chinese exports.

Negotiations through the Fourth of July weekend failed to win an agreement between striking office clerical workers and the employer’s association representing 14 marine terminals and shipping l