Container Shipping News

BY JOSEPH BONNEYSixteen years ago this fall, Neptune Orient Lines made a big splash when it

Fesco, Russia's largest ocean container shipping line, announced it has signed an agreement to acqui

Rudy Mack has some harsh observations about the liner shipping industry: "We are stupid that we are

Just as the growth of Asia's exports to North America has begun to slow, Asia's trade with Europe is

The world's busiest container trade lanes are still growing at a healthy pace, but the rate is slowi

Chris Koch is a proud man. As head of the World Shipping Council, Koch says the industry "has reache

When carriers and shippers negotiate shipping contracts, they bring briefcases full of estimates of

As the shock waves from A.P. Moller-Maersk's management shakeup begin to subside, Maerskologists are

The clock is ticking down on the antitrust immunity that the liner shipping industry has enjoyed for

The Singapore stock market is fast becoming a favorite place for shipping trusts to raise money to b

A rising tide lifts all boats, and the rising tide of interest by global equity investors in dry- an

Russia's Fesco Transport Group reacted strongly this month when news leaked out that it wanted to ac

Air pollution by ships in port is of growing concern, and it's a problem ocean carriers agree must b

This looks like the year. During the coming months, the Suez Canal alternative for Asian cargo to Ea

With big-box retailers paying ocean freight bills that add up to millions of dollars a year, they of

Could the perennially disputatious dialogue between carriers and shippers be undergoing a fundamenta

The Panama Canal Authority's proposal to increase tolls on ships transiting the canal didn't come as

Maersk Line's decision to re-establish service from the U.S. West Coast to North Europe is good news

When hundreds of British beachcombers scavenged everything from Bibles to BMW motorcycles from conta

Ocean carriers are hoping that new leadership at the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, coupled w

Knowing exactly where a shipment is from origin to delivery has long been a goal of many shippers. A

The specter of overcapacity, which haunted the world's ocean container carriers through much of this

During his seven years as head of the carrier discussion group that attempts to bolster freight rate

Ever since the leaders of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-Shek fled mainland China in 1949,

The war in Iraq is casting a shadow over U.S. commercial relations with the Middle East even as the

As one observer put it, by the time the Antitrust Modernization Commission ended its Oct. 18 hearing

The overwhelming approval by Panamanian voters of the proposed $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama

Perhaps more than ever before, bunker fuel surcharges promise to be a contentious issue in next year

Old habits die hard, especially when they've been around for 150 years. That is why ocean carriers i

Trans-Pacific container lines are aiming high in next spring's rate negotiations with shippers. Desp

European liner conferences still have another two years of life. So says the EU's Competiveness Coun

FastShip, the jet-turbine-powered container ship project that has been contemplated, designed and re

Few things cause more heartburn for ocean carriers than missing a Panama Canal transit appointment.

It happens every day: A container ship line has slots to fill on an upcoming voyage. Or a shipper ne

The slew of earnings reports disgorged by publicly listed ocean container lines over the last few we

Four years after the International Longshoremen's Association began trying to organize 115 clerical

A Texas non-vessel-operating common carrier has asked the Federal Maritime Commission for permission

Con-way Freight is joining the rush to China, partnering with a forwarding company in the latest bid

With the Panama Canal having imposed the second of three scheduled toll increases in May and plannin

Ocean carriers serving Europe are deep in discussions with European Union competition authorities ov