Container Shipping News

The Federal Maritime Commission announced Thursday that Chairman Richard A. Lidinsky Jr. and Commissioner Rebecca F.

Canadian Pacific Railway signed new productivity and performance agreements with the two intermodal terminals at the big container port of Port Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, in deals the partners

The Georgia Ports Authority will replace the engines on 17 of its older rubber-tired gantry cranes with more efficient engines that reduce carbon emissions as the result of the $2.72 million grant it

A consortium of Hapag-Lloyd, United Arab Shipping Company, Hyundai Merchant Marine and China Shipping Container Lines will launch a container service between Southeast Asia and Australia, starting in

Japan posted a trade surplus with the rest of the world for the 14th consecutive month in May thanks to strong exports, especially to the other Asian economies, according to preliminary figures releas

Cheng Lie Navigation, the Taiwanese carrier that is majority-owned by CMA CGM, is launching three new services and upgrading a service linking China to Southeast Asia to meet growing demand on the int

Container ship supply will grow more slowly than forecast, allowing demand to catch up with capacity by 2015 and support higher rates, an industry analyst predicts.

A steady increase in container traffic is putting pressure on drayage operators at the Port of Virginia, including Wyatt Transfer, a Richmond, Va., port trucker.

Ocean shipping lines and trucking companies must cooperate more closely to move freight efficiently through their customers' integrated global supply chains, a maritime industry leader told trucking e

The World Shipping Council said it appointed Morten H. Engelstoft, chief operating officer of Maersk Line to its board to fulfill the unexpired term of retiring director, Knud Pontoppidan of A.P.

Containerized imports at Canada’s Port Metro Vancouver grew 41.4 percent in May to the highest level in 20 months, according to the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority.

The start of the peak-shipping season is still more than a month away, but marine terminal congestion in Los Angeles-Long Beach is mounting so rapidly that harbor truckers are in a state of panic.

Port terminal operator PSA International took full ownership of the second container terminal at India’s southeastern Port of Chennai, after buying out its local partner’s stake in Chennai

With capacity tight and demand strong on the trans-Pacific trade, the world’s three largest container lines are restoring a joint service to the U.S.

With capacity tight and vessel demand strong entering the peak season, Mediterranean Shipping Co.

Hanjin Shipping took delivery of its first container ship with a capacity of 10,000 20-foot equivalent containers units on Wednesday.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach port area ranks first in a new index that rates the desirability of U.S. seaports for industrial development and investment.

A shipload of U.S. corn on Tuesday started unloading in China, marking the first significant shipment of corn that China has imported from the U.S. over the past 15 years.

French ocean carrier CMA CGM denied media reports that it offloaded some of its debt to its NYSE-listed affiliate Global Ship Lease.

The growth of demand from emerging economies, especially China, is helping the global shipping industry recover from recession faster than forecast and will absorb excess vessel capacity, the new pres

Ocean container carrier APL held a naming ceremony for the APL Sri Lanka, a newly built vessel, at the state-owned Jaya Container Terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Prices for new maritime containers are close to the highest point in 20 years, driven by a rush of new orders from ocean carriers and container leasing companies in response to a growing shortage of b

Crowley Maritime is realigning its liner and logistics sales, pricing, customer service and marketing groups and reassigning several of its senior executives to new responsibilities.

Rebounding demand for steel and the iron ore to make it is causing an 18 percent increase in St.

The United Seamen's Service said it will award its Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards for 2010 to Thomas J. Bethel, national president of American Maritime Officers, and to William A.

Former Matson President and CEO Michael S. Wasacz died June 20 in San Francisco at age 73.

Chilean carrier CSAV called APM Terminals' New York-New Jersey terminal Monday on the initial voyage of the carrier's new Panama Canal service from Asia to Central America, the Caribbean and the U.S.

The surge in imports from Asia that has caught carriers and their customers by surprise will continue at least into the autumn peak-shipping season, says a shipping executive.

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Diana Containerships, a majority-owned subsidiary of the Greek dry bulk shipowner Diana Shipping, acquired two new container ships 10 weeks after its establishment.

Evergreen Line said the officers and crew of its container ship Uni-Pacific rescued seven Indonesian seafarers who had fallen into the Java Sea near Jakarta on June 16.

The volume of containers transported by APL in May rose 34 percent from a year earlier, as its average revenue per 40-foot container climbed 19 percent, which reflected the start of annual increases i

Major ocean carriers operating to and from India plan to increase rates on key trade lanes, starting in early July.

Debbie McMillan, director of operations at Derco Foods in Fresno, Calif., was surprised recently when an ocean carrier representative said her exports of dried fruits and nuts were not paying “m

Leaders of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee this week joined the chorus of lawmakers and shippers asking what can be done about equipment shortages and vessel capacity that are

U.S.

European Union regulators cleared Danish shipping line DFDS to complete its $425 million acquisition of rival roll on-roll off carrier Norfolkline from A.P.

APL Logistics, a unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, opened a state-of-the-art container freight station near Bangladesh’s busiest Port of Chittagong.

Overseas Orient Container Lines is raising rates next month for shipments from South China to Australia, adding new lanes to the price hikes the operator has been announcing in the Australia trade.

Pier 1 Imports says tighter supply chain controls boosted a sharp improvement in margins on home furnishings merchandise in its fiscal quarter ending May 29, pushing the retailer to its first operatin