Container Shipping News

Container carrier Hamburg Sud’s Australia/New Zealand service recently delivered three Erickson Air-Crane heavy lift helicopters to the Port of Oakland.

Maersk Line will launch a nationwide chassis pool, pushing forward the evolution of the U.S. intermodal industry.

Containerized exports through WEST COAST PORTS plummeted 21 percent in the first four months of 2009 from a year earlier, but problems don’t end there for trans-Pacific exporters.

Like NASCAR drivers when the green flag is waved, container lines raced to start direct services this month from Vietnam’s newly dredged deep-sea port of Cai Mep to the U.S. West Coast.

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South Carolina’s seaports in Charleston and Georgetown stand to gain more than $12 million in additional funding for studies of channel deepening as a result of actions this week in the U.S.

After buying Eukor Car Carriers’ 50 percent stake, Grimaldi Group is now the sole owner of the Swedish roll-on, roll-off port of Wallhamn. Grimaldi Group and Eukor bought the port in 2005.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority, which oversees the ports of Charleston and Georgetown, is bracing for a 6 percent decline in container traffic during the next fiscal year.

A.P. Moller-Maersk is selling some of the trucking services provided by its European ferry subsidiary Norfolkline Logistics to DSV, Scandinavia’s largest trucking and logistic group.

Matson Navigation's top unionized ship officers could strike tomorrow if they do not reach agreement during scheduled talks with the shipping company today.

Japanese export ship orders tumbled for the eighth consecutive month in May on a year-on-year basis, as a recovery in ship owners' flagging demand for new vessels is not yet on the horizon amid the gl

Chiquita Brands International said it does not expect the bankruptcy filing by Eastwind Maritime and many of its affiliates to adversely affect service to Chiquita's customers and the delivery of its

Eastwind Maritime, an operator of refrigerated ships domiciled in the Marshall Islands, filed for liquidation on Tuesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York.

Karel Van Miert, the former European Union antitrust chief who played a key role in the demise of liner shipping conferences, died Monday after falling from a garden ladder at his home south of Brusse

Steel imports in May totaled $1.122 billion, down from April imports of $1.344 billion, said the U.S. Census Bureau in a preliminary report.

Revenue of the biggest ocean container carriers plunged by 35 percent overall in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period in 2008 in what is shaping up to be the worst year in moder

Hapag-Lloyd, the German ocean container carrier, announced Wolfgang Freese will succeed Jim Newsome as President of Hapag-Lloyd (America) on September 1.

CargoSmart Limited, which provides on-demand shipping and logistics software, announced today the availability of its product for compliance with the Importer Security Filing rule, also known as &quot

The directors of the South Carolina State Ports Authority voted unanimously to hire Jim Newsome III as its new president and chief executive officer at their monthly board meeting today.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday refused to allow Fleet Management, the operator of the ill-fated Cosco Busan that spilled 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay after crashing into th

Evergreen Line plans to withdraw 31 of its oldest ships from service and scrap many of them to help chip away at what its chairman, Chang Yung-fa, described as a “gruesome” excess of vessel capacity i

Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding thinks global container volumes may drop more than 10 percent and show no growth until next year.

CMA CGM said it will upgrade its CIMEX service between Asia and ports in the Middle East Gulf in July by replacing its two existing loops with one that features larger ships.

Jordan’s largest container port, the Aqaba Container Terminal, handled a record monthly volume of 64,525 TEUs in May, contributing to an overall year-to-date container throughput growth of 23 pe

A shipping investment fund focusing on the purchase of bargain priced second hand containerships and bulk carriers will be launched this week on the Hamburg stock exchange.

Evergreen Marine and Neptune Orient Lines are denying charges by prosecutors in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, that their employees were involved in falsifying data on cargo volumes passing through the port in or

A.P. Moller - Maersk Group promoted Jesper Cramon to head of group accounting, effective Aug. 1. He will replace Per Møller, who is retiring after 22 years with the Group.

The United Seamen's Service will present its 40th Annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Awards to Donald Kurz, president and CEO of Philadelphia’s Keystone Shipping, and Ronald Widdows, group presiden

Europe's top ports boosted the share of containers in general cargo traffic to an all time high last year even as box volumes slowed significantly in the final quarter.

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APL’s container volume and average revenue per container fell during the most recent four week reporting period, its parent Neptune Orient Lines said Monday.

Employers at West Coast ports beginning July 1 will pay about 30 percent more in man-hour and tonnage assessments to fund benefits programs for longshoremen.

Workers at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor on June 19 started unloading 94 giant wind turbine blades for one of the world's largest wind farms under construction in northwestern Indiana.

Maersk Line will increase rates on services from Asia to New Zealand.

Taiwanese prosecutors on Thursday indicted 46 executives from some of the world’s biggest liner shipping companies and the Port of Kaohsiung on charges of fraud for allegedly inflating cargo vol

Higher fuel costs prompted two lines to raise bunker surcharges.

The transportation industry this week began operating under new federal regulations covering the safety of intermodal equipment, and in all modes of transport people agree much work still needs to be

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Importer Security Filing rule will impose an annual cost of more than $20 billion on the U.S. economy, according to a study by a manufacturers’ group.

APM Terminals said its Apapa Container Terminal in Nigeria set a new terminal record of 47.26 moves per hour this week.

Maersk Line is setting up a nationwide chassis pool in the United States that will make its fleet of chassis available for lease by drayage companies, ocean carriers, marine terminals and railroads.