Container Shipping News

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.

The Commerce Department and the U.S. Postal Service on Monday announced a five-year partnership intended to help U.S. exporters expand their markets overseas.

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