Container Shipping News

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.

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

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

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

Hanjin Shipping expects to post a profit this year and boost revenue 27 percent as world trade picks up and shipping lines cut fleet expansion plans, according to Bloomberg News.

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to recall a decree, issued last week, requiring ship agents to arrange for mooring services for vessels calling at the west coast hub.

The executive directors of the six major container ports on the West Coast urged Congress to include additional funding for the Diesel Reduction Act in upcoming jobs-creation legislation.

Port Manatee, Fla., is seeking bids for the dredging of the port’s new berth 12. The new 1,600-foot berth is expected to be operational by the end of 2010.

The United Arab Shipping Company said it signed a $275 million multi-currency loan facility to finance the acquisition of three container ships of 13,100 20-foot equivalent units capacity.

A federal court in San Francisco on Friday followed through with a plea agreement and fined the operator of the Cosco Busan $10 million for a November 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay.

Container throughput at major ports in India grew 1 percent during the April-January period compared with a year earlier, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement on Monday.

Hamburg Süd said it will replace its current service between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean through a slot-charter agreement with Hapag-Lloyd’s MGX service.

A large European non-vessel-owning common carrier will become the first forwarder to offer less--than-containerload booking through the electronic platform created by INTTRA, the electronic portal fou

CMA CGM, which has been heavily involved in relief efforts in Haiti since the earthquake devastated the country on Jan.

For a company that lost more than $1 billion in 2009 and is almost certain to spend 2010 in the red, Hapag-Lloyd seems an unlikely recovery story.

Navigating through a storm of historic magnitude, any ship captain probably would be expected to make adjustments and even look for an entirely new course.

BNSF’s top intermodal executive concedes the western railroads have permanently lost much of their East Coast market share to all-water container shipping services from Asia, but Steve Branscum

The North American intermodal business is developing a split personality.

Atlantic Container Line said Friday it will raise rates on east- and westbound trans-Atlantic cargo, effective April 1.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it is temporarily using several 8,085-TEU ships, the largest to call at U.S.

The Federal Maritime Commission has given members of the carrier discussion group in the eastbound Pacific the authority to talk about strategies intended to reduce air emissions, water pollution and