Container Shipping News

Container traffic through Chinese ports hit an all-time monthly high of 12.44 million 20-foot equivalent units in May as the nation's foreign trade surged by nearly 50 percent from a year ago.

Two men were arrested and a third was found dead Monday at the Wando Welch Terminal at the port of Charleston after they stowed away in a cargo container from the Dominican Republic, according to news

The U.S. Export-Import Bank and the government of Vietnam signed an agreement June 14 that would offer $500 million in Ex-Im financial backing for sales of U.S.

OOCL said Monday it will extend and upgrade its intra-Asia KTX3 service as of June 27 with new calls at Singapore, Jakarta and Port Kelang, and increased frequency to and from Jakarta.

OOCL said Monday it is increasing freight rates as of July 15 for cargo it transports from Northeast Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea) to Australia.

Canadian National Railway and container facility operator TSI Terminal Systems inked what they called a “supply chain collaboration agreement” aimed at improving turnaround times for conta

OOCL said Monday it launched a new technology called Mobile Vessel Tracking that enables shippers to search and track any OOCL vessel using their mobile devices.

West Coast ports face political threats that could stifle the nascent commercial recovery they are experiencing, according to the president of the organization that represents shipping lines and termi

Technology market leader Intel is due to turn on the switch at its $1 billion integrated circuit packaging and testing plant in Ho Chi Minh City later this year, but there is far more at stake for shi

Intra-Asia shipping is one of the world’s busiest container shipping areas, and a new free trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is aimed at meeting foreca

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Bananas, coffee, melons, fruits and vegetables, tube socks, running shorts, jeans and t-shirts are heading north. Petrochemicals, paper products, mining equipment are transported south.

Containerized import volume into Southern California ports jumped 18.3 percent in May, as the shipping recovery at Los Angeles and Long Beach picked up speed and retailers pushed more goods out of Asi

Ocean vessel operators are watching talks in Congress over potential changes in oil pollution liability limits for the impact legislation responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster could have on car

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International Longshoremen’s Association members in Hampton Roads refused to accept lower pay for handling uncontainerized cargo and for handling containers that move on a barge shuttle between

Maersk Line is set to unveil a peak-season surcharge on the Asia-Europe liner trades in mid-July.

An ocean carrier representative, responding to a sharp broadside from a congressional leader, said legislators should be cautious about imposing new regulations on container ship lines because of prob

CMA CGM will share space on Maersk Line’s FM3 service linking the Far East and Indian subcontinent, which will add a direct call at Shanghai.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, responding to criticism this year of carrier moves on rates and capacity, is forming an advisory board with shipper members to

Container carrier Samudera Shipping Line upgraded its feeder connections between India’s eastern Port of Kolkata and Singapore.

SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping lines are implementing measures in westbound Pacific lanes that should provide a long-term solution to capacity and equipment shortages hitting U.S.

Decrying ocean container carrier business practices, the head of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee called Thursday for the end of antitrust immunity for vessel operators in the Uni

Two 139-foot-long wind turbine blades transported recently in an Antonov AN-225 were the longest cargo pieces ever flown in an aircraft, said logistics provider Geodis Wilson, which managed the shipme

Rickmers Maritime, the Singapore-listed container ship charter owner whose survival during the trade and economic recession was in doubt, won a five-year extension to repay a $130 million top-up loan

Danaos, the Greek container ship owner, said it re-chartered six vessels, including some of its oldest ships, reflecting the improving conditions in the container ship charter market.

Major ocean carriers plan to raise rates on India-U.S. trade lanes as demand picks up.

Maersk Line and Hamburg Sud will add a second string in their service between Asia, South Africa and the East Coast of South America in July in response to increased cargo demand during the peak shipp

Container traffic at major ports in India for the April-May period increased by 21 percent over the same period last year, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement on Wednesday.

Cargo volume at major ports in India grew 3.5 percent in the April-May period compared with a year earlier, according to latest traffic figures released by the Indian Ports Association.

The Panama Canal Authority awarded Belgian maritime projects specialist Dredging International a contract to dredge the man-made Gatun Lake, a major step in expanding the canal’s ability to hand

Charter operator Euroseas, joining an increasingly lively market for container ships, announced the purchase Monday of a used Handysize vessel, bringing its fleet to 16 ships.

Rickmers-Linie launched a breakbulk, project cargo and heavy-lift liner service linking North Asia with the U.S. East Coast and South America.

Israeli ocean container carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services has signed a non-binding agreement to sell its stake in an unnamed non-Israeli marine services company for between $130 million and $17

Container lines are steadily returning vessel strings to the trans-Pacific trade, but not fast enough to relieve capacity constraints in both directions.

President Obama’s goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years generated a set of nation-specific marketing plans, according to a senior U.S. trade official.

Bad news was everywhere at the end of May: The Dow was plunging 300 points, North and South Korea were rattling sabers, the eurozone crisis was threatening to spread, and an underwater gusher of crude

Seaspan said it bought a new container ship this week from China’s Zheijiang Shipbuilding, the first vessel the maritime charter operator has purchased since 2007.