Container Shipping News

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

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.

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.

GPA Study Shows Diesel Additives Cut Fuel Use, Emissions

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.

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India’s two biggest ports, the Port of Mumbai and the Jawaharlal Nehru Port, are likely to be shut for at least a week, as their main channel remains blocked by containers that fell off a ship a

Hamburg Sud will impose a general rate increase on Sept. 1 on all cargo moving from the West Coasts of the U.S. and Canada to Europe.

A Pakistani clothing manufacturer is accusing two U.S. freight forwarders of defrauding it out of some $207,000 in payments due.

The Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Mumbai, India’s busiest container port, closed Monday morning following a collision between two vessels on Saturday that left hundreds of containers floating in the

Mediterranean Shipping Company and the Shipping Corporation of India formed a vessel sharing agreement to launch a direct container service linking the Indian subcontinent and the Mediterranean, start

One of the first questions raised after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion was whether shrimp and other seafood from the Gulf of Mexico was safe to eat.

One of the most significant changes in the 54-year history of maritime containerization is unfolding rapidly at U.S.

There is no shortage of ideas for meeting President Obama’s goal of doubling exports in five years and creating 2 million new jobs.

White is the new green for companies in the cold chain that want to improve their environmental rating.

A rebound in container volume and rates has NYK Line, MOL and “K” Line profitable again and more optimistic about the months ahead.

Add chassis to the list of transport equipment in short supply this year as the early recovery in demand caught carriers and leasing companies with their chassis down.

Leaders of several U.S. agricultural groups are calling for China to increase its imports of U.S. food products. Economists say it’s not only possible, but also inevitable.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority and the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League said Friday they concluded several months of mediation and reached a settlement, ending a years-long battle

Evergreen Line, OOCL and Dubai-based Simatech Shipping will launch joint liner service beginning Aug. 20 connecting Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.

Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, the world's largest container port operator in volume, said its earnings before interest and taxes rose 35 percent as its container throughput increased 17 per

International Container Terminal Services, the Manila-based port operator, said its second quarter net profit increased 61 percent to $19.6 million as revenue rose 32 percent to $126.3 million.