Container Shipping News

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach want your

If you want to see what economists mean by “inventory overhang,” take a look at the parking lots around any of the major auto ports.

For more than a decade, exports from Asia were a high-revving engine of growth for trans-Pacific container trade and an increasingly global economy.

Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd., a leading, non-state-owned provider of shipping agency services operating primarily in China, announced the appointment of Mr.

MOL has announced the appointment of Rebecca Yang to the position of Regional Import Sales Manager, Southeast Gulf Region.

CMA CGM (America) LLC announced that Christopher Messer has joined the company as an Account Executive for the Florida market.

A leading economic firm revised its outlook for ec

The volume of containers handled by Chinese ports

Gross domestic product fell at an annual rate of 6

Mediterranean Shipping Co.

Today TUI salvaged the $5.8-billion sale of Hapag-

Construction is underway on Alabama State Port Aut

LONDON -- Container ship charter owners are prepar

The collapse of container traffic at the nation's

NYK Group Americas on Friday named Peter Keller, currently president of NYK (North America), to the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer.

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.

Japan posted a record trade deficit of 952.6 billion yen ($9.82 billion) in January, as exports tumbled at their fastest pace amid the global economic slump, according to preliminary figures released

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.

SEATTLE -- The Port of Seattle's container volume in January declined 5.7 percent to 128,837 TEUs from the same month last year, but that was a big comeback from its December performance, when box tra

Two German states on Tuesday agreed to inject 3 billion euros ($3.9 billion) into HSH Nordbank, the world's biggest shipping bank and member of a consortium buying ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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.