Container Shipping News

Shippers can expect problems during this year's peak season for Asian imports, but obtaining contain

The Port of Halifax has been trying to reposition itself to capture some of the expected surge in As

A wave of optimism ran through non-vessel-operating common carriers after a federal appeals court ru

Shippers hankering for new ocean capacity can look forward to several new all-water alternatives to

The Hampton Roads Chassis Pool is the only one covering an entire port but is not the only chassis p

When a harbor driver for Gilco Trucking pulls into a marine terminal at Hampton Roads, he's usually

U.S. exporters are discovering that low freight rates are a mixed blessing. Some trans-Pacific carri

If you're shipping next winter, here's something to consider: There's growing scientific evidence th

CP Ships was in the middle of carrying several shipments for a relatively new customer this year whe

Shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific found the recently completed 2005 contracting season to be s

Container shipping, still more fragmented than most global industries, is likely to see a wholesale

The proposed $3 billion acquisition of Royal P&O Nedlloyd by A.P. Moller-Maersk has sent shockwaves

Thomas DeMarino says he believes in long-term relationships with a select group of ocean carriers. B

The minute hand is ticking toward high noon. That's the moment when enough new container capacity wi

By the end of this year, the seven CP Ships' container lines that sail under their own flags will be

May 1 isn't the big day it used to be. The traditional starting date for annual contracts between sh

Shippers beware: Marine terminals and carriers are getting serious about reducing the backlog of con

Liner carriers are waiting with bated breath for some idea of what kind of system the European Union

Evergreen International's $25 million penalty last week for concealing the illegal dumping of oily b

U.S. importers will have a choice of a half-dozen new services from Asia this year, provided they sh

There's more than one way to make money in shipping. Besides selling space on their vessels, contain

David Lim says the congestion on intermodal networks make two things clear: First, transport provide

Shipping lines have always considered Japanese electronics exporters to be captive shippers for tran

Boom and bust, boom and bust. That's been the pattern in container shipping, where rebounding rates

With its core business in the Hawaii and Guam trade showing only modest prospects for growth, Matson

Shippers have always supported the presence of independent liner companies in the busy Asia-to-West

If timing is everything, the Panama Canal Authority seems to have timed its impending toll increases

The waltz began last September when Maersk Sealand decided to start its own service and told partner

Though rates still matter, this year's contract negotiations between trans-Pacific shippers and carr

A new container-rate index from investment bank UBS corroborates what everyone in the industry knows

Just as non-vessel-operating common carriers got their first chance to offer customers contracts wit

When Seaspan Container Lines Ltd. was established in 1999 at the height of the dot-com bubble, new I

The quiet announcement over the holidays of the management succession at Taiwan's Evergreen Group ma

A funny thing happened on the way to formulating another flat outlook for the trans-Atlantic trade i

First, the bad news: The world's port and intermodal infrastructure is straining to handle explosive

When A.P. Moller-Maersk acquired Safmarine Container Lines in 1999, the Danish shipping giant's goal

When the Panama Canal Authority proposed a major change in the way it assesses tolls on container sh

Every Friday, a small container/roll-on, roll-off ship sails out of Maher Terminals in Port Elizabet

The rumor caught the imagination of the international transportation industry, even though it proved

CP Ships has reached a watershed in its corporate strategy and structure. Shaken by an accounting fi