Container Shipping News

President Obama took his wife and daughters to his childhood home for Christmas vacation, and Hawaii state officials hope the publicity will help fuel tourism.

Manufacturers and retailers looking to cut shipping costs by slowing their supply chains are finding unlikely new supporters of the strategy: the ocean container lines that carry the overwhelmin

After a 14 percent decline in intermodal traffic last year, the major western railroads are planning for increased container traffic in 2010.

Trade and manufacturing groups are offering strong support to President Obama’s call to double exports in five years to create 2 million jobs, but they also want to see substantive action t

Crowley Maritime Corp. discharged 202 20-foot containers of relief supplies across a beach in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday under its contract with the U.S. Transportation Command.

SINGAPORE — All the worried talk about the project market lagging the overall economy and thus facing a tough 2010 as other sectors ramp up for recovery may turn out to be just that -- worry.

SINGAPORE -- Africa, the least-developed continent in the world, is attracting increased attention from the world's biggest manufacturing countries looking for natural resources and an outlet for expo

NYK Line will be implementing a general rate increase in its trans-Atlantic services from the U.S.

Horizon Lines in its fiscal fourth quarter ended Dec. 20 swung to a profit of $1.3 million from a loss of $20.3 million in the same quarter of fiscal 2008.

Japanese ocean carrier “K” Line said its net losses in the last three months of 2009 nearly doubled to $203.3 million from $115.2 million a year earlier as weak volume and rates caused rev

Citing a pre-Chinese New Year "cargo rush," CMA CGM said it will impose peak season surcharges on services from Asia to North and West Africa.

Seaboard Marine said most of the 30 containers that fell overboard from a ship 30 miles off Key West, Fla., this week were empty and the rest contained non-hazardous materials such as textiles, the Co

MOL on Friday more than doubled its profit forecast for its current fiscal year, saying “strong demand” in dry bulk shipping and rising container shipping prices are improving the company&

INTTRA, the carrier-owned portal for ocean-freight bookings, is getting a fresh capital infusion that will enable it to develop new electronic commerce services for new markets.

President Obama said Wednesday that increasing exports and construction of infrastructure will be among the ways the U.S. economy will recover from the recession.

The South Africa Europe Container Service on Feb. 15 will introduce an additional reefer service for the anticipated seasonal increase in refrigerated exports, which it first announced on Nov.

SINGAPORE - Mark-Marian Siegert has a message for breakbulk and project cargo interests looking to grow in the wake of the worst economic downturn in decades: Look to emerging markets.

After two weeks of strong week-to-week increases, the spot rate for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles settled down, stabilizing at $1,669 in the week ended Jan.

Customs and Border Protection Tuesday began enforcing the Importer Security Filing or 10+2 rule.

European Union regulators are challenging the German government's $1.7 billion loan guarantees to Hapag-Lloyd, the country's biggest ocean container carrier, which narrowly avoided a loss in the fourt

With carriers increasing rates on major trade lanes on an almost daily basis, Mediterranean Shipping Co.

Cargo volume at the Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, increased 15 percent in 2009 over 2008, including a 45.9 percent increase in container traffic.

A Horizon Lines ship bound from Los Angeles to Guam made an unscheduled stop in Honolulu with several containers askew on its deck after encountering a Pacific storm that knocked six containers overbo

Drewry Shipping Consultants is introducing a report for shippers called “Freight Shipper Insight,” which provides market information on demand trends, freight rate developments and macro-e

The four members of the CKYH Alliance, Cosco, “K” Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin, introduced slow steaming on their services between Asia and Europe and the Mediterranean, the group said Tuesd

Ocean container spot freight rates on the key export trades out of China to Europe and the U.S. east and west coasts soared by an average of 24 percent in the past three months.

The Port of Seattle reported blockbuster results in container traffic for December, with imports growing 32.6 percent and exports doubling even as other Pacific Northwest ports still showed the effect

Crowley Liner Services’ settlement this month of civil antitrust lawsuits with U.S.

2009’s bumper corn crop that yielded a record 13.2 billion-bushel harvest should be good news for farmers, but whether they benefit from it will depend on the supply chain, according to an exper

TLR-Total Logistics Resource, a Portland, Ore., forwarder, is having a terrible time getting its customers’ export containers on Asia-bound vessels.

Officials of Hanjin Shipping and the International Longshoremen’s Association tentatively agreed on a contract establishing personnel scales for a highly automated container terminal the carrier

As of Jan. 19, Russia has effectively banned imports of U.S. poultry, typically exported as palletized breakbulk cargo, because U.S.

The Georgia Ports Authority reported that the container volume handled by the Port of Savannah increased by 3.6 percent over the same quarter of 2008 in the quarter ended Dec.

TUI AG said it will ask shareholders to oppose a motion by billionaire Norwegian ship-owner John Fredriksen calling for an investigation into the financial rescue of troubled ocean container carrier H

MISC Berhad will revise the port rotation and coverage of its Halal Express 2 (HE2) Service linking the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East.

DP World’s container traffic declined 8 percent in 2009 from a year ago but the rate of decline slowed in the second half of the year across its global terminal network.

The volume of containers transported by Neptune Orient Lines’ liner subsidiary APL surged by 43 percent in the six weeks from Nov. 14 to Dec.

Crowley Maritime will start delivering relief supplies directly to earthquake-crippled Port-au-Prince next week after successfully completing an experimental ship-to-shore transfer of ocean containers

Space on ocean vessels leaving Asia is tight leading up to Chinese New Year in three weeks, and shipping lines are capitalizing by charging importers at least $200 per container to guarantee the shipm

Net profit for Container Corporation of India fell 3 percent from a year earlier to $43.5 million in the third quarter ending Dec. 31, despite a marginal increase in overall revenue.