Container Shipping News

China, the largest market for U.S. chicken exports, plans to impose anti-dumping tariffs of up to 105.4 percent on U.S. broiler chicken imports, starting Feb.

The port of Hamburg lost significant market share to close rivals Rotterdam and Antwerp last year as cargo traffic crashed more than 21 percent from 2008 and container volume shrunk by even more.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today unveiled details of President Obama’s plan to double U.S. exports within five years to $3 trillion while creating 2 million U.S. jobs.

Hanjin Shipping will raise rates on Canadian exports to Asia effective March 1, the company announced Thursday.

Truck drivers at India’s Port of Chennai began a sudden strike Wednesday night, threatening serious delays to cargo moving through the country’s southeastern maritime gateway.

Hanjin Shipping, the new company that runs the South Korean company’s shipping operations, said Thursday it lost $26 million on revenue of $573 million in the month of December, its first full m

Roll-on, roll-off maritime traffic declined even more last year than container shipping, but ro-ro carriers avoided a bloodbath in rates because of the extensive use of multi-year contracts in the bus

Alexander & Baldwin said Wednesday that its Ocean Transportation unit, Matson Navigation, earned a fourth quarter operating profit of $13.5 million, which was down 36 percent from the $21.1 millio

Savannah, the United States’ fastest growing container gateway, is rolling out a series of new environmental initiatives aimed at reducing pollution even as the port adds cargo handling capacity

The spot rate for shipping from Hong Kong to Los Angeles leaped by 20.5 percent to more than $2,000 per 40-foot container over the past week, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants.

CMA CGM on Feb. 2 received an $80 million cash injection from its banks as it continues negotiations over restructuring its $5.6 billion debt.

The Antwerp Port Authority and its port community are launching a new campaign to attract more breakbulk trade to the port.

LONDON -- The number of idled container ships registered its first significant decline in more than a year in January, with almost 50 vessels returning to service over the past month as ocean carriers

Container throughput at the Port of Montreal declined by 15.3 percent in 2009, as the number of full and empty containers handled by the port fell to 1,247,690 20-foot equivalent units.

Germany’s federal cartel office gave antitrust approval for an inland container terminal joint venture between the nation’s top two rival stevedores.

Container traffic through France&rsquo;s Port of Marseilles Fos rose by 4 percent during 2009, bucking the port&rsquo;s overall 13.3 percent decline in tonnage volume, the port authority said Monday.<

DP World said on Sunday its new container terminal at Hiep Phuoc, near Ho Chi Minh City, had opened last year.

Net profit for Shipping Corporation of India fell 53 percent to $19 million during the third fiscal quarter, ending Dec.

The 12 ocean containers Crowley Maritime managed to get to shore at Port-au-Prince&rsquo;s crippled port late last month provided only a small share of the enormous relief supplies needed in Haiti, bu

The global reefer container fleet shrank in 2009. Carriers scrapped obsolete units, and not one carrier built a new refrigerated container, according to Bill Duggan of Maersk Line.

The dollar is down, global credit markets are easing, consumers in developing countries are beginning to buy more expensive and varied food, and U.S. farm exports are in demand. For U.S.

Generations of shipbuilders and engineers have spent years trying to get ocean vessels to travel faster. Now, container lines are applying new tricks to slow the ships down.

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.

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.

Negotiators have two basic options on the table for controlling greenhouse gases. One is a tax per ton of bunker fuel that can be invested in a greener environment somewhere else on Earth.

Trade and manufacturing groups are offering strong support to President Obama&rsquo;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 &mdash; 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 &ldquo;K&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;strong demand&rdquo; 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.