Container lines

Japanese export ship orders rose for the 17th consecutive month in April year-over-year, increasing 9.4 percent to 912,142 gross tons, according to figures released by the Japan Ship Exporters’

Sammy Ofer, the billionaire Israeli shipping magnate and co-owner of ocean container carrier Zim, died today in Tel Aviv after a long illness. He was 89.

Sharp Electronics and Pier 1 fell back sharply in The Journal of Commerce rankings of the Top 100 Importers for 2010 in a sign of the ongoing impact of the retail industry’s inventory retrenchme

Bob Sappio, a veteran of 29 years at APL, will leave the company as the container shipping line extends a restructuring of its top management.

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Maersk Line will operate scheduled services to the Mediterranean island port of Marsaxlokk, Malta Freeport Terminal confirmed.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will raise general rates on cargo shipped from northern European and Mediterranean ports to Canada and Mexico, effective July 1.

Neptune Orient Lines said Thursday it completed $1.1 billion in loan agreements and documentation with financial institutions providing financing for the 12 container ships the carrier ordered last ye

Horizon Lines, struggling in recent weeks to stave off a debt default, said Wednesday it has new agreements with bondholders to refinance the company's entire capital structure.

Maersk Line announced a piracy risk surcharge on containers shipped between India and the Middle East region. Effective June 1, the surcharge is $70 per 40-foot equivalent unit.

Hanjin Shipping introduced an upgraded Supply Chain Carbon Calculator that enables a shipper to calculate CO2 emissions for transporting a container by period, multiple destinations and bill of lading

Copenhagen’s stock exchange said Wednesday it found no basis for concluding A.P. Moller-Maersk had passed price-sensitive information to an SEB Enskilda shipping analyst last month.

Horizon Lines says the New York Stock Exchange is warning the company faces possible delisting because its market capitalization and stockholder equity have fallen below NYSE criteria.

Ocean container freight rates on the Asia-Europe shipping lanes have become more volatile since the European Union outlawed liner conferences in October 2008, Alphaliner said.

Yildirim Holding, the Turkish trading and ports conglomerate that owns 20 percent of CMA CGM, agreed in principle to buy 50 percent of the French ocean carrier’s Malta Freeport container termina

Ocean container volume for Neptune Orient Lines and its APL shipping subsidiary rose jumped 9 percent in the four weeks ending May 6 but average revenue per box fell back 4 percent to the lowest point

United Arab Shipping has a new $205 million loan facility to finance the acquisition of two container ships with capacities of 13,100 20-foot equivalent units.

Turkey’s bold plan to build a canal to divert shipping from the heavily congested Bosporus Strait will be put to the test after the country’s general election on June 12.

When European Union antitrust authorities sprang a series of surprise visits on the offices of several of the world’s largest container lines, it set off what promises to be a long investigation

The 2008-09 economic recession was painful for the footwear industry, but the industry is putting lessons learned to good use now that the market has rebounded.

After a year of recovery in imports of furniture and home furnishings, U.S. furniture and home furnishings importers are more optimistic than they’ve been in years.

Recycling paper, plastics and scrap metal is good not only for the environment but also for reducing the U.S. foreign trade deficit. Scrap exports comprise one of the largest sectors in the U.S.

RILA’s Casey Chroust says recovering retailers remain focused on tight inventories and – say it slowly – transportation disintermediation

U.S. textile and apparel imports have been rising this year as a result of growing confidence among importers that U.S. consumer demand is recovering.

When Clarence Gooden, chief marketing officer for eastern U.S.

When the earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck northern Japan in mid-March, killing hundreds and causing major damage to that country’s infrastructure, supply chain specialists sensed immedia

With overall exports this year at near-record levels, cotton shippers are hustling to secure equipment and vessel space in the trans-Pacific, and they seem to be fairly successful in doing so.

After suffering a decline in production as a result of growing company layoffs and bankruptcies tied to the Great Recession of 2008-09, the chemical industry is back to formulating trade gains.

U.S. agriculture is riding high on the productivity of American farmers and a huge demand for their products in the global marketplace.

Japanese automakers are struggling with epic supply chain disruptions in the wake of the magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 that devastated the nation’s industrial northeast and clai

The value of U.S. international trade rebounded sharply in 2010 and is now only 6.2 percent below the peak realized in 2008 prior to the global recession. International trade to and from the U.S.

With the economy improving, at least one major importer and exporter thinks it’s time to focus on building supply chain models better designed to handle market volatility and allow carriers and

If the world were a better place, the U.S. Agency for International Development wouldn’t be among the top 100 U.S. exporters.

U.S. container trade is growing at two speeds. Export volume is soaring while consumer-driven imports are rising more slowly.

The barge industry is taking new safety measures to deal with “unprecedented” flooding on the Mississippi River, working closely with the U.S.

CSAV is upgrading its weekly New Discovery service between China, Malaysia and South Africa by extending its coverage to include West Africa.

Container traffic at the Port of Montreal grew 4.5 percent in the first quarter year-over-year on strong demand from the U.S. Midwest and Canada, and double-digit growth in Mediterranean trade.

Wal-Mart remained the No. 1 importer of containerized ocean cargo in the latest annual ranking of The Journal of Commerce Top 100 U.S.

The APL Singapore flipped a switch on Friday at the Port of Oakland that made it the first ship there to “cold-iron” and use shore-side electric power, extending a major maritime environme

America Chung Nam, the sister company and supplier of wastepaper to China’s largest containerboard manufacturer, was the largest American exporter of containerized goods by volume