Container Shipping News

The Port of Seattle’s import container traffic soared 70 percent in April over the same month a year ago, helping push overall volume at the port to its highest levels since 2008.

Economists are questioning how long U.S. consumers can maintain their current spending pace in the face of high unemployment, stagnant housing prices and reduced access to credit.

The embattled euro is poised to drop further but the economic impact on North American economies appears to be limited, economists from IHS Global Insight said.

Safmarine plans to launch its first direct, fully-containerized service between the Far East, the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa next month.

Charleston’s container volume jumped 28.5 percent in April over the same month last year, marking the fourth straight month of double-digit increases, the South Carolina State Ports Authority re

Trailer Bridge narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $307,569 from $768,034 a year earlier as the U.S.-Puerto Rico carrier reported increases in revenue and operating income.

The watershed Los Angeles clean-truck lawsuit is one step closer to conclusion, with the port stating in its closing arguments that it is exempt from federal pre-emption law because it is a market par

Overall container volume at Germany’s Port of Hamburg slipped 4 percent to 1.8 million 20-foot equivalent units in the first quarter, but loaded containers posted a 1.6 percent increase.

The container volume handled by Georgia’s ports jumped by 25.6 percent in April, making five months in a row that they recorded double-digit growth.

DP World India took delivery of six rubber-tired gantry cranes that are to be installed at its International Container Transshipment Terminal, the country’s first deep-water transshipment facili

The International Register of Shipping opened an office in Singapore as part of its strategy to expand its worldwide presence.

Ports on the Great Lakes, which traditionally handle dry and liquid bulk, breakbulk and project cargo, are looking at a future with containers.

One by one, the major shipping lines pushed to the brink of bankruptcy have received financial infusions enabling them to survive.

At first blush, it makes sense that start-up carrier The Containership Co. chose the new Port of Taicang as its home base in China, but CEO Jakob Tolstrup-Moller said it was the other way around.

Nearly a month after an explosion destroyed the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon deep-sea drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, oil was still gushing from two leaks in the rig’s shattered well hous

CMA CGM will add calls at Mobile, Ala., and Pusan, Korea, to its Asia-Gulf of Mexico service, effective May 20, the company announced Friday.

Retailers, motor carriers and environmentalists have joined forces in the Southeast to develop a clean-air initiative to reduce harmful emissions from harbor trucks.

Neptune Orient Lines, Singapore-based parent of ocean container carrier APL, narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $98 million from $245 million a year earlier and said trends point to a return to pr

The Port of Savannah is using a modified silt suspension system to maintain a depth of 48 feet at four of its Garden City Terminal berths and to increase oxygen levels in the river.

The Port of Felixstowe reduced its carbon emissions 8.3 percent in 2009 compared with the previous year, the port announced in its annual Environmental Report.

HHLA, Hamburg's biggest stevedore, reported first quarter profit and revenue shrunk from a year ago but said container traffic is picking up.

International Container Terminal Services Inc. Wednesday signed a 25-year lease with the Port of Portland to operate the container and breakbulk facility at Terminal 6.

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, which last year postponed the bidding process for the design and construction of a new container terminal in the former Philadelphia Navy Yard, is again seeki

CMA CGM, building on a $270 million profit the carrier showed in the first quarter, expects to earn $1.8 billion on its operations for the year as a whole, according to Philippe Soulie, CEO of the Fre

Maersk Line is maintaining “tight management” of its vessel capacity despite rising cargo volume and rates, parent company A.P. Moller-Maersk said.

The Maersk Mathilde called at a port near Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday, as Maersk Line launched its new direct TP6 service between Vietnam and the U.S.

Seaspan lost $36.6 million in the first quarter ended March 31, compared to the profit of $24.2 million in the same period last year, the Hong Kong-based charter shipowner reported.

Hapag-Lloyd made a profit in the first three months of 2010 as increased cargo volume and higher freight rates ended a run of five consecutive quarters in the red.

At a time when vessel space in the trans-Pacific is at a premium, carriers value those customers that accurately predict their slot requirements and then meet those commitments throughout the life of

Ron Widdows, president and chief executive officer of NOL Group, and John Hemingway, chief executive officer and president of SSA Marine/Carrix, have been chosen as recipients of the 2010 Connie Award

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CMA CGM reached agreement with five South Korean shipyards that were building its orders for 42 new containerships to postpone delivery of 30 vessels that had been scheduled for delivery in 2010 throu

Automotive and hardware retailer Pep Boys will pay $5 million in civil penalties under a settlement in what the Environmental Protection Agency says is its largest case ever involving imported vehicle

CMA CGM and Maersk Line plan to launch a new weekly service in time for peak season, reflecting the recovery in demand on one of the world’s largest trade lanes.

Hyundai Intermodal, a unit of Hyundai Merchant Marine, will switch from Norfolk Southern to CSX Transportation as its eastern-U.S. railroad partner beginning June 1.

A consortium of Hanjin Shipping, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Yang Ming Line and United Arab Shipping Company will launch a container service between Asia and Southern Europe, starting at the end of May.<

Container ship charter rates are rallying strongly, growing an average of nearly 27 percent for some vessels in the past month, as ocean carriers scramble for extra capacity amid a strong rebound in c

Container traffic between China and the British Columbia port of Prince Rupert soared in the first quarter of this year, up 87.3 percent from the same period last year, the Prince Rupert Port Authorit

London Thamesport took delivery of a new ship-to-shore gantry crane manufactured by Zhenhua Port Machinery Company of Shanghai.

Hanjin Shipping lost $118 million in the first quarter ended March 31, down from the $191 million loss it suffered in the first quarter last year, and substantially lower than the $239 million it lost