Container Shipping News

Container handling came to a standstill at India’s Port of Haldia, a sister facility of the Port of Kolkata, after crane operators suspended operations Tuesday night.

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Competition between West and East Coast ports for Asian cargo has hit a point of equilibrium and market share probably won't change much in the coming years.

CMA CGM will raise freight rates for all types of U.S. export cargoes to Asia, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent on March 15.

Jack Yen has been named vice chairman of Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan) Ltd., and will be succeeded as president by Capt. C.J. Wang.

India’s Tariff Authority for Major Ports ordered a 10-percent reduction in tariffs currently levied by Indira Container Terminal, the private terminal operator at the Port of Mumbai.

The battle over control of harbor trucking will head east next week when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey releases its clean-truck plan.

Global Ship Lease, the NYSE-listed container ship charter owner, reported fourth quarter net profit of $12.3 million compared with a year-earlier loss of $43.7 million.

Goldenport Holdings, the London-listed container ship and bulk carrier owner, swung to a $1.4 million net loss in 2009 from an $87.6 million profit in the previous year, mainly because of lower ship c

Project and heavy-lift carrier Intermarine launched a heavylift service between Europe and South America.

Container shipments from the Far East to the United States declined by 15.3 percent in 2009 from the previous year to 10.1 million 20-foot equivalent units, down 2.8 million TEUs from their peak of 12

Container shipping is beginning to recover from its worst-ever recession, but shippers and carriers need to develop long-term relationships to ensure stability in rates and service, Maesk Line CEO Eiv

APL, the liner shipping subsidiary of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, handled 307,400 40-foot equivalent units in the six weeks from Dec. 26, 2009, to Feb.

Kuehne + Nagel, the global freight forwarder and contract logistics provider, reported 2009 earnings fell more than 20 percent from the previous year on lower world trade, a strong Swiss franc and a p

Hapag-Lloyd in April will seek rate increases on two trade lanes affecting the Indian Subcontinent.

Despite stronger opposition on several fronts, members of Congress are sticking with the idea that scanning all containers at foreign ports is good supply chain security policy.

With container volumes down 18 percent from the peak year of 2007, and some marine terminals operating at 50 percent of capacity, this may not seem like the best time for West Coast ports to spend bil

Relations between trans-Pacific shippers and carriers are testy in the best of times, and these aren’t the best of times.

The confidence across Canada hardly ends with this year’s Winter Olympics.

Ocean carriers have different names for it — overbooking, fall down, phantom bookings — and it’s driving them crazy.

Breakbulk carriers are catching up with changing shipper demand by adding larger ships equipped with cranes capable of lifting heavier loads for construction projects and other cargoes.

The global financial crisis that began in 2008 and accelerated into 2009 sent trade volume from the export-oriented economies of the Asia-Pacific region into the steepest decline in the modern interna

MOBILE, Ala. -- The first shipment of carbon steel slabs for the new ThyssenKrupp steel mill in Alabama arrived at the Port of Mobile’s new Pinto Island Steel Terminal this week.

Horizon Lines, the largest U.S.

Horizon Lines is close to a decision on whether to shift its weekly New York-New Jersey port calls for the carrier's Puerto Rico service to Philadelphia or Jacksonville, CEO Charles G.

CMA CGM will raise rates on major lanes around the world in a “rate restoration program” beginning March 1 with later phases kicking in March 15 and April 1.

DHL this week launched direct less-than-container-load service from New York and Chicago to Pusan, South Korea.

Financially-troubled CMA CGM will not get conventional state aid from the French Government, but the container line is still in talks with FSI, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, about new equ

After almost two years of litigation and appeals, U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

Mediterranean Shipping Company’s “Golden Gate Service” made its inaugural call Thursday at the Port of Charleston, when the first vessel in the service to call Charleston, the MSC Ri

The French port of Marseilles Fos said it is seeing signs of recovery in the world economy as the cargo volume handled by the twin ports in January rose 10 percent over the previous January.

Swedish ship-owner Transatlantic AB swung to an operating loss of $30.3 million in 2009 from a year earlier profit of $36.4 million on sharply lower volume and freight rates in its core breakbulk and

Shipping lines that carry U.S. exports to Asia intend to increase their freight rates effective April 1 in a continuing attempt to recover from last year's recessionary rate levels.

Mediterranean Shipping Company announced Thursday a general rate increase on exports from North America to Europe and the Mediterranean as of April 1.

The Chinese infrastructure construction company China Gezhouba Group Company, based in Wuhan, China, will build a 254-megawatt hydropower plant for Limited Kazakhstan Natural Gas Technology Company ov

There is no slowdown in sight for Chinese steel output, according to a prediction from the Chinese Iron and Steel Association.

Steel imports increased by 15.9 percent in January compared to December, but the effects of the recession left business down 31 percent from January 2009.

Japan's exports to the rest of the world rose for the second consecutive month in January, surging 40.9 percent from a year earlier to $54.5 billion, according to preliminary figures released by the F

Ocean carriers and charter shipowners canceled 140 container ship orders since the global financial crisis erupted in September 2008.

Overseas Orient Container Lines, extending the shipping world's push toward higher prices, said Tuesday it will increase freight rates by $100 per 20-foot container as of March 1 on cargo moving from