Container Shipping News

With a large number of improvements, French ocean carrier CMA CGM is upgrading its Asia-Europe services, effective June 30.

Commissioners of the Federal Maritime Commission won’t intervene in an informal review of a split routing case involving a non-vessel-operating common carrier.

Hanjin Shipping took delivery June 16 of a new Cape-size vessel from Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Hamburg Süd will replace its agent in Poland with Safe Shipping, effective July 1.

CMA CGM added three calls for its three 1,100-TEU vessels in the CAGEMA service linking the East Coast to the Caribbean.

Containerized exports out of the Port of Tacoma grew 6.2 percent in May over the same month last year, a potential signal of recovery at the Pacific Northwest port.

Container traffic at Marseilles soared 60 percent in May from a year ago as ocean carriers launched new services.

Net profit for state-owned Shipping Corp. of India fell almost 20 percent to $42.5 million in the January-March quarter of fiscal 2008-09 ended March 31.

Container volume at the Port of Los Angeles declined 16.3 percent in May compared to May 2008, which was about par with the port’s performance since January.

Exports out of the Port of New York and New Jersey fell more than 20 percent for the fifth straight month in April, pushing overall container traffic at the East Coast’s largest port down 17.8 p

A.P. Moller-Maersk is considering an additional 175 layoffs at its iconic Danish shipyard because of a lack of orders.

Loaded container traffic at the Port of Long Beach fell 22.6 percent in May, but the port showed signs of improvement in its busiest month so far in 2009.

Hanjin Shipping became the third major container line in a month to announce it is launching a direct service between Vietnam and the United States.

Saddled with contracts to build more ships than they need for the foreseeable future, shipping lines and charter ship owners are trying to cancel orders or at least delay delivery of new ships for as

If breakbulk carriers want to feel depressed, they have reasons: Cargo volume is slowing, rates are down and hard times are spurring competition from container ships and other vessels.

While many ports in the Gulf region are focused on waterside projects, the Port of Beaumont, Texas, this summer will begin a long-awaited project to reconfigure the port’s railyard, moving it from the

An unnerving game of “chicken” played out on the lower Mississippi River recently.

Of the roughly $1.7 billion in stimulus funds allocated to navigation needs including maintenance and construction, more than $356 million is heading to the U.S.

Radoje “Rod” Vulovic, 67, a founder and chief operating officer of U.S. Ship Management, died Friday in Charlotte, N.C., after a prolonged illness, his business partners announced.

A severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru prompted port management to seek immediate intervention with Container Corp.

London -- European Union anti-trust regulators on June 12 opened an in-depth investigation of plans by DSV, Scandinavia's biggest trucker, and Danish shipping line Vesterhavet, to take joint control o

Horizon Lines said it will pay $20 million to settle class-action lawsuits that alleged antitrust violations in the Jones Act trade between the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico.

Sberbank Capital, a unit of Russia's largest bank, the state-controlled Sberbank, acquired a 10 percent stake in Global Ports Investments, one of Russia’s leading container and oil products term

Deep recession affecting the steel plants ringing the Great Lakes basin in North America is creating huge decreases in shipments of iron ore and limestone for those same plants, the Lake Carriers' Ass

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DHL Global Forwarding Japan launched direct less-than-container-load services connecting Tokyo and Yokohama to Chicago.

The westbound movement of agricultural products is outperforming general merchandise, and the U.S.

Japanese carrier MOL has refuted a report by Reuters that it is considering “spinning off” it container division.

Maersk Line will increase rates on services from the Far East to Europe on July 1. In July and September, rates will go up on services between Europe and the Middle East and South Asia.

The corporate owner of a Korean-flag bulk carrier will pay a $2.2 million fine for violating U.S. oil pollution laws, the Justice Department announced Friday.

The volume of container traffic handled by the Port of Hong Kong dropped 20 percent in the first quarter to 4.6 million TEUs, according to statistics published last week by the Census and Statistics D

MOL said last week it is considering spinning off its container shipping division and selling it to a non-Japanese shipping line as one option to turn around the loss-making business.

Liner shipping executives are raising their glasses to American wine drinkers, for they make up about the only consumer market where demand has not plummeted for imports from the Mediterranean.

Grand Alliance members OOCL and Hapag Lloyd are replacing smaller vessels on the joint NWX service operated in cooperation with ZIM with two ships with a capacity of 8,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units

MOL (America), a subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, will move its North America headquarters from Concord, Calif., near the port of Oakland, to Lombard, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.

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The A.P. Moller-Maersk Group will merge its subsidiaries Maersk Logistics, Maersk Customs Services and Damco into one company Sept.

As morning broke over the Gulf of Aden June 1, a white skiff sped toward a commercial ship en route off the East African Coast.

Hoegh Autoliners, the Norwegian ocean car carrier, will launch service between the Middle East, India and Africa next month.

Maersk Line launched a new container service, the Ecuador-Banana-Express (ECUBEX), effective June 1.