Container Shipping News

Don't hold your cargo shipments until the first smart container comes along, but don't be surprised

Laissez les bons temps rouler" - let the good times roll. These are good times for ocean carriers. T

If shipping lines in the trans-Pacific could fulfill their customers' wish list for next year, they'

For several years, ocean carriers in the eastbound trans-Pacific market have proposed annual rate in

This is a good time to be in ocean shipping. Demand is up, capacity is tight and virtually every car

It's now up to the Federal Maritime Commission to decide whether non-vessel-operating common carrier

Sometimes it pays to put all of your eggs in one basket. Turkon Line, which entered container shippi

All the planets are in alignment, everybody is on the same page, and all the ducks are in a row.

Five containerloads of lemons were sacrificed on the altar of homeland security last month, or that'

In a surprise move that is shaking up the South American trade lanes, Maersk Sealand is planning to

As tall as a 16-story building, the new container ship Albert Maersk towered over Langelinie Quay on

It's been apparent for years that the days of ocean-carrier conferences are numbered. These rate-set

The Federal Maritime Commission's area representatives traditionally have been perceived as the agen

Maersk Sealand's decision to resign from the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement effective Sept. 17

Ocean carriers are convinced that their vessels in the eastbound Pacific trade will be full in Septe

CP Ships had been on a roll. After building a global network of container-shipping services through

The trans-Atlantic is CP Ships' biggest trade, accounting for just less than half of the company's $

Don C. Becker, a former publisher of The Journal of Commerce (1985-97), recently returned from a vis

Back in the 1990s, there was much negative speculation that operations in the Panama Canal would det

The offer by the Singapore government's investment arm, Temasek Holdings Pte., to buy the 70 percent

The growing popularity of all-water services from Asia to the U.S. East Coast, coupled with the scar

Faced with record-high charter costs that are still rising and shortages of ships in most sizes avai

DECKEHAD: Trade in the eastern Mediterranean is growing faster than that in the western part of the

Containerized imports from Asia continue to rise briskly, but apparently not enough to require most

MIAMI - A hold was put on more import cargo as the Port of Miami continues to clear thousands of con

When Ron Widdows became chief executive of APL Ltd. at the beginning of 2003, he vowed to insulate t

With container capacity tight on both the Atlantic and the Pacific, how does a carrier decide where

It's beginning to look as if the European Commission will do away with the blanket exemption it gran

In Hong Kong, 76-year-old Li Ka-shing is called Superman, or K.S. The soft-spoken, mild-mannered Li

If carriers in the westbound trans-Pacific market are ever going to raise rates, this would seem to

The Coast Guard recognizes there is a lot of anxiety in the maritime community about implementation

In an Atlantic dominated by the boom-and-bust business of container shipping, Atlantic Container Lin

Asia-U.S. ocean logistics is being upended by a shortage of marine containers, severe rail congestio

When markets are strong, shipping lines do what companies in other industries do - they start thinki

It's getting harder and much more expensive to charter the smaller container ships that can provide

Rob Shepard, director of transportation at Reebok, isn't worried about whether he'll be able to secu

We're New Yorkers," says Capt. Nicola Arena, president of Mediterranean Shipping Co. (USA). "Other c

Trans-Pacific shippers and carriers are at the peak of their annual contract-negotiation season, and

When Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta told the National Industrial Transportation League

Capt. Wei Jiafu is a man who knows where he's going. He should; he's a former deck officer who now i