Container Shipping News

CMA CGM is piloting INTTRA's Web-based eInvoice software with select customers in North America. The system helps carriers and customers to submit, receive, review and process invoices.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will increase rates on westbound cargo from the United States to Asia, effective Nov. 16.

Executives of the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads will join representatives of the six major West Coast container ports to promote the ports as an efficient and environmentally-friendly gateway for A

Customs and Border Protection’s advanced computer system for processing documentation is taking longer to develop and will cost more than anticipated, but completing development of the Automated

The UK Treasury on Oct.

The year long decline in container traffic on the key Asia-Europe trade slowed in August as rising European exports partially compensated for lower shipments from the Far East.

The port of Antwerp gave a qualified welcome to the Dutch government's decision to deepen the river Scheldt, the port’s access to the North Sea.

A joint venture between the Rockefeller Group and MeadWestvaco will develop a 1.1 million square foot distribution center at the Port of Charleston, S.C., for auto tire marketer TBC.

Neptune Orient Lines reported its first year-over-year expansion in ocean container volume in a year Monday in a report that showed the operator’s strongest demand for shipping so far in 2009.

Israel Corp., the parent of Zim Integrated Shipping, announced a two-week delay to a shareholders' meeting to vote on a recovery plan for the financially ailing ocean container carrier.

For importers buying from Asia and the ocean, intermodal rail and motor carriers transporting their goods to U.S. destinations, this is as busy as it’s going to get this year.

Like their brethren in the trans-Pacific, trans-Atlantic container lines have eliminated or combined so many of their services in the last three months that vessel capacity has tightened to the point

Shippers have been watching the financial perils of troubled carriers unfold in recent weeks, fearing the demise of a major carrier could disrupt their supply chains.

Thousands of containers sat unmoved Oct.

Cargo tonnage sagged in September on the St. Lawrence Seaway, according to numbers released Thursday by the Seaway’s U.S. and Canadian administrations.

Four Hercules lift boats bound for Nigeria were loaded aboard the Cosco Kang Sheng Kou, a 512-foot semi-submersible, last week at the Port of Freeport, Texas.

The Galveston-Texas City Pilots’ latest rate adjustment request will be addressed by the pilot commission beginning on Monday, Oct. 12.

Some container shipping carriers are down to their last lifeline and need more revenue quickly in order to survive, the chairman of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement warned.

The city of Beaumont, Texas should see a marked improvement in downtown traffic congestion thanks to the Port of Beaumont’s $10.5 million rail improvement project, now being reviewed by the stat

Container throughput at major ports in India fell 6.32 percent during the first half of fiscal 2009-10 ending Sept.

Hapag-Lloyd’s part owner, the German travel group TUI, agreed to provide further financial support to the troubled carrier to help it secure a government lifeline for the shipper, Reuters report

MOL said Thursday it will apply a peak-season surcharge on bills of lading for all shipments from Europe and the Mediterranean to Asia.

Mediterranean Shipping Company will charge a container fee for export equipment picked up at some Midwest depots as well as other locations in the United States effective Nov. 1.

The organizations representing ship managers and ship suppliers called upon ship owners to discuss cash flow problems openly as the global slowdown has made many slow to pay.

Shipping lines operating in the Pacific plan to increase freight rates to the U.S.

MISC Berhad expanded its Halal Express Service 1 (HES1) between the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East with a direct call at India’s Port of Pipavav.

Berlian Laju Tanker, Indonesia's biggest shipping line, will become the world's leading operator of chemical tankers if its planned $174 million takeover of Norway's Camillo Eitzen [CECO] goes through

Australia’s Babcock & Brown Infrastructure is set to sell its UK ports business and a 50 percent stake in one of the world’s biggest coal shipping terminals as part of a $1.5 billion r

Having already lost about four percent of their market share of Asian cargo to Canadian and East Coast ports the past few years, and hoping to avoid a further diversion of cargo when the Panama Canal

Container shipping needs “transformation” that goes beyond the changes carriers are undertaking to survive and likely will include consolidation, a Maersk executive told The Journal of Commerce’s East

Crowley Maritime Corporation promoted Tucker Gilliam to general manager Dominican Republic/Haiti for the company's liner services group.

Ocean carrier OOCL will increase its rates on all dry and refrigerated cargo from Hong Kong, Macau and South China to New Zealand, effective Nov. 1.

Momentum Logistics, a subsidiary of international port management company, Gulftainer, signed a contract to provide dedicated warehouse space and other logistics services to United Arab Shipping Compa

Mediterranean Shipping Company will increase freight rates for cargo moving on its services from India to Europe and Africa, effective October 12.

Chicken’s popularity among global consumers is proving largely recession-resistant, propping up poultry exporters and the Gulf ports and terminals they use.

Charter ship owners that basked in a bull market for their ships in the boom years of tight capacity are being battered by the recession.

The U.S. Gulf’s proximity to Central America has long kept the region’s ports busy with imports of perishable melons, cantaloupes, bananas and other fruits and vegetables.

James McKenna, president of the Pacific Maritime Association, and Robert McEllrath, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, are co-recipients of the 2009 Connie Award presented b

A sharp drop in trans-Pacific container volumes this year caused NYK Line to drop plans to lease a proposed 168-acre container terminal at the Port of Tacoma.

Germany's parliament cleared the way for Hapag-Lloyd to receive federal and local government loan guarantees worth $1.8 billion to help the container line survive the downturn in global trade.