Container Shipping News

Ocean carrier MISC Berhad announced group profits fell in the third quarter from a year earlier despite increased revenue, due primarily to losses in the liner segment.

Maersk Line announced schedule changes that affect port coverage on one of its services between the Far East and West Africa, and between Europe, the Middle East and South Asia in two other loops.

YRC Logistics, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide, added to its global trade management services a team of experienced licensed customs brokers to help importers comply with the new Importer Security Filin

The Taiwan-based carriers have entered a cooperation agreement, covering Evergreen's North-East-Asia-South-East-Asia (NSA) and North-East-Asia-South-East-Asia (NSB) services, as well as Wan Hai's Kore

Orient Overseas Container Line said it will seek a rate increase of $200 per 20-foot container of dry cargo on its service from Asia to North Europe as of April 8.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The Port of Long Beach beginning April 1 plans to offer financial incentives to marine terminal operators and ocean carriers to ship more rail cargo through the port.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that Customs and Border Protection is not likely to meet a 2012 deadline for scanning all U.S.-bound containers.

TOKYO -- Japan's largest shipping firm, NYK Line, is cutting its container fleet transport capacity on its major routes, including Asia-North America, by an additional 10 percent this spring.

Maersk Line on Monday announced a general rate increase on the trans-Atlantic as of April 1.

TUI likely will acquire a bigger stake in Hapag-Lloyd than it originally planned in order to finalize the sale of the world's fifth-largest ocean carrier.

The four Grand Alliance ocean carriers on Monday announced they are re-routing all ships deployed on the eastbound EU3 Asia-Europe service around Africa's Cape of Good Hope instead of transiting the S

Maersk Line announced a series of enhancements and adjustments to its Asia-Europe network.

Asia Express Consortium members Hamburg Sud and CCNI will consolidate some services with Mediterranean Shipping between Asia, Mexico and the west coast of South America because of deteriorating market

Asia Express Consortium members Hamburg Sud and CCNI will consolidate some services with Mediterranean Shipping between Asia, Mexico and the west coast of South America because of deteriorating m

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Weak imports and exports moving through Southern California are putting a strain on one of the most successful freight efficiency and congestion mitigation programs ever created for intermodal trucks.

Maersk Line announced a series of enhancements and adjustments to its Asia-Europe network.

In describing the state of the container shipping industry, executive recruiter Bill Conroy quotes o

A harsh January at the Port of Portland saw container volume fall about 28 percent to 15,961 TEUs from a year earlier.

APL said it will raise freight rates on the Asia-Europe trade next month.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Wednesday ushered in a new era of harbor trucking as they began to collect clean-truck fees from importers and exporters.

MOL is expected to cut container capacity by an additional 10 percent on major routes, starting in April.

Idled ocean container capacity has soared to 1.1 million TEUs with 392 ships lying at anchor as slumping cargo flows force carriers to suspend liner services.

The Panama Canal Authority is sticking to its scheduled May 1 toll increase in the face of plans by some of the world's largest container lines to route their vessels the long way around the Central A

Trying to wring every penny of cost out of their global service networks, container lines are seekin

Trying to wring every penny of cost out of their global service networks, container lines are seekin

The business of shipping cargo from Asia to Europe has gotten so bad that it can't get any worse, ev

Like container carriers, ocean freight intermediaries are seeing their cargo volumes drop. But unlik

What are they thinking? Why would the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement be asking for the authori

Facing heavy losses that could extend into 2010 or beyond, container carriers in the eastbound trans

If the holiday season seemed uncommonly stressful at the Port of Charleston, there was good reason.

As they head into what most expect to be a year to forget, container ship lines are redrawing their

If current trends continue, Ron Widdows says, he'll soon be able to see much of the world's containe

As Chinese manufacturers raced to fill their orders before the government shut factories to clear th

Combine a wobbly economy with shifting supply-chain patterns, excess ship capacity and volatile pric

After a year of twists and turns, the Hapag-Lloyd saga ended in anti-climax. On Oct. 12, TUI AG issu

The global economic downturn threatens to change the face of the container shipping industry. It cou

Just when they thought their disagreements with the European Union over antitrust regulation had been resolved, container lines were hit between the eyes with a surprise notice from the EU's Competiti

The psychology of fear is rolling out across the globe as credit markets seize up, and it's affectin

As the psychological shock waves of the financial implosions on Wall Street and in London spread acr