Container lines

Hapag-Lloyd and Evergreen Line announced plans to increase rates on some of their India services.

Severe terminal congestion at India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru prompted shipping lines to divert northern hinterland cargo to neighboring west coast ports such as Pipavav and Mundra.

The first vessel on a new all-water service operated jointly by MOL and “K” Line called at Jacksonville early Wednesday.

Maersk Line is telling its customers to expect a shortage of container availability for exports out of Asia lasting through the peak season.

Panama’s Cabinet Council on Tuesday approved the Panama Canal Authority’s proposed toll increases, which will result in tolls on container ships rising nearly 14 percent when they tak

“K” Line acquired a 51 percent share in the U.S.-based logistics service provider Air Tiger Express Companies.

APL Ltd. was chosen as the top carrier for the second consecutive year in the Agriculture Transportation Coalition's annual survey of ocean carrier performance.

The Containerization & Intermodal Institute said Tuesday it will present the 2010 East Coast-based Connie Awards to J. Russell Bruner, Chairman and CEO of Maersk Inc., and James I.

The Port of Salalah appointed Shiva Dean to the position of chief commercial officer.

Container carrier APL entered a vessel-sharing agreement with Hapag-Lloyd, CMA CGM, NYK Line and Orient Overseas Container Line on the India-America-Express Service, effective this month.

OOCL said Monday it will extend and upgrade its intra-Asia KTX3 service as of June 27 with new calls at Singapore, Jakarta and Port Kelang, and increased frequency to and from Jakarta.

OOCL said Monday it is increasing freight rates as of July 15 for cargo it transports from Northeast Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea) to Australia.

OOCL said Monday it launched a new technology called Mobile Vessel Tracking that enables shippers to search and track any OOCL vessel using their mobile devices.

West Coast ports face political threats that could stifle the nascent commercial recovery they are experiencing, according to the president of the organization that represents shipping lines and termi

Ocean vessel operators are watching talks in Congress over potential changes in oil pollution liability limits for the impact legislation responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster could have on car

The Journal of Commerce’s Annual Top 100 Importers and Exporters ranking is based on data from PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, a JOC sister company, and other industry sources.

Maersk Line is set to unveil a peak-season surcharge on the Asia-Europe liner trades in mid-July.

An ocean carrier representative, responding to a sharp broadside from a congressional leader, said legislators should be cautious about imposing new regulations on container ship lines because of prob

CMA CGM will share space on Maersk Line’s FM3 service linking the Far East and Indian subcontinent, which will add a direct call at Shanghai.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, responding to criticism this year of carrier moves on rates and capacity, is forming an advisory board with shipper members to

Container carrier Samudera Shipping Line upgraded its feeder connections between India’s eastern Port of Kolkata and Singapore.

SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping lines are implementing measures in westbound Pacific lanes that should provide a long-term solution to capacity and equipment shortages hitting U.S.

Rickmers Maritime, the Singapore-listed container ship charter owner whose survival during the trade and economic recession was in doubt, won a five-year extension to repay a $130 million top-up loan

Major ocean carriers plan to raise rates on India-U.S. trade lanes as demand picks up.

Maersk Line and Hamburg Sud will add a second string in their service between Asia, South Africa and the East Coast of South America in July in response to increased cargo demand during the peak shipp

The Panama Canal Authority awarded Belgian maritime projects specialist Dredging International a contract to dredge the man-made Gatun Lake, a major step in expanding the canal’s ability to hand

Rickmers-Linie launched a breakbulk, project cargo and heavy-lift liner service linking North Asia with the U.S. East Coast and South America.

Israeli ocean container carrier Zim Integrated Shipping Services has signed a non-binding agreement to sell its stake in an unnamed non-Israeli marine services company for between $130 million and $17

Container lines are steadily returning vessel strings to the trans-Pacific trade, but not fast enough to relieve capacity constraints in both directions.

Seaspan said it bought a new container ship this week from China’s Zheijiang Shipbuilding, the first vessel the maritime charter operator has purchased since 2007.

Danaos, the Greek container ship charter owner, swung to a $101.1 million first quarter net loss from a $20 million profit a year ago due to losses on interest rate swaps and the cost of cancelling an

Ocean carriers have absorbed nearly 100 container ships with a combined capacity of 554,000 20-foot equivalent units by introducing extra slow steaming on key liner trade routes, according to a new re

Maersk Line is offering shippers the option of paying a fee for priority loading of their cargo on a particular vessel on many global services, except those to and from North America.

Hapag-Lloyd plans to raise freight rates on major trade lanes covering the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, starting in early July.

Six international engineering companies submitted bids Tuesday to dredge an area of the Panama Canal’s man-made Gatun Lake that is central to the massive project to upgrade the canal and its cap

Orient Overseas Container Lines took delivery Tuesday of the last in a line of 16 vessels with a capacity of 4,578 20-foot equivalent container units that it ordered from Samsung Heavy Industries.

The European Union is launching an investigation into whether the largest container lines have engaged in price-fixing, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Hanjin Shipping said Tuesday it will start converting its fleet of refrigerated containers this month over to what it calls “eco-friendly” reefers.

Rising volumes and rates are starting to yield profits for container ship lines, but the industry still faces a vexing problem: what to do with all those ships ordered a few years ago.

Orient Overseas Container Line effective July 1 will increase its rates from Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East to Australia by $250 per-TEU.