Container lines

TLR-Total Logistics Resource, a Portland, Ore., forwarder, is having a terrible time getting its customers’ export containers on Asia-bound vessels.

Officials of Hanjin Shipping and the International Longshoremen’s Association tentatively agreed on a contract establishing personnel scales for a highly automated container terminal the carrier

TUI AG said it will ask shareholders to oppose a motion by billionaire Norwegian ship-owner John Fredriksen calling for an investigation into the financial rescue of troubled ocean container carrier H

MISC Berhad will revise the port rotation and coverage of its Halal Express 2 (HE2) Service linking the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East.

The volume of containers transported by Neptune Orient Lines’ liner subsidiary APL surged by 43 percent in the six weeks from Nov. 14 to Dec.

Crowley Maritime will start delivering relief supplies directly to earthquake-crippled Port-au-Prince next week after successfully completing an experimental ship-to-shore transfer of ocean containers

Space on ocean vessels leaving Asia is tight leading up to Chinese New Year in three weeks, and shipping lines are capitalizing by charging importers at least $200 per container to guarantee the shipm

At least one South Korean shipbuilder is getting hit by the cancellation of orders by CMA CGM, and others are fending off cancellations by the troubled French container line, which can't pay for the o

The spot rate for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong to Los Angeles jumped 17.9 percent in the week ended Jan.18 compared to the week earlier as U.S.

A joint venture investment group said it will spend up to $100 million to buy low-valued freight and industrial equipment, to assemble a broad mix of lease assets that will include ocean ships and riv

The World Shipping Council and its 29 carrier members proposed to the International Maritime Organization and its member governments a new global Vessel Efficiency System to improve the carbon and fue

Orient Overseas (International) Ltd said Wednesday revenue for the fourth quarter, ended Dec.

Orient Overseas (International) Limited, the parent of container line OOCL, said Tuesday it sold its real-estate subsidiary Orient Overseas Developments Limited to CapitaLand China (RE) Holdings Co fo

Maersk plans to expand its Direct ChassisLink program throughout the Midwest and the Ohio Valley as of March 1.

Hanjin Shipping plans to raise trans-Atlantic rates in both directions in three quarterly increases on April 1, July 1 and Oct. 1, the carrier announced Monday.

Maersk Line’s AE7 Asia - Europe service Jan. 13 called at the Port of Felixstowe in the UK.

CMA CGM on Monday officially appointed Philippe Soulie, former head of French construction group Cnim, CEO of the troubled ocean container carrier.

The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement is adding another member and changing its governance and management structure to better deal with what carriers say are insufficient trans-Pacific freigh

Ocean carriers’ service cutbacks are forcing shippers to book further in advance and pay higher rates to keep their containers from being left on the dock.

Even after 14.5 percent average annual growth in container traffic between 2002 and 2007, the container shipping revolution still has a long way to go in India.

Hanjin Shipping and Wan Hai Lines are tightening ranks in the trans-Pacific by establishing a vessel-sharing agreement on Hanjin’s Vietnam-U.S.

Average global container shipping rates expanded year-over-year in late 2009 for the first time since mid-2008, according to a new report by Drewry Shipping Consultants.

U.S. importers said emergency rate increases the ocean carrier members of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement are putting into effect this month are taking hold across the board.

Hanjin Shipping executives and International Longshoremen’s Association officials met this week for the first time since June to discuss staffing requirements for a highly automated container te

Hanjin Shipping said it will begin slow-steaming vessels on one of its all-water services from Asia to the U.S. East Coast in mid-January.

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India will implement a general rate increase on the trade from India to Europe, effective Feb. 4.

Hamburg Sud late Thursday christened the final new ship in a series of six identical container vessels of 5,900 20-foot equivalent units capacity each in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Horizon Lines cut its debt by $38.1 million during the fourth quarter and completed its fiscal year with $28 million less in funded debt than a year earlier, the company said Wednesday.

Orient Overseas Container Line will implement a peak season surcharge on all Asia-to-Europe freight, effective Feb. 1.

Cargo bookings by the individual lines in the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement suggest that vessel utilization levels in the trade will run in the mid-high 90 percent range in most trade segments

German entrepreneur Klaus-Michael Kuehne called on TUI to sell its Hapag-Lloyd stake to make room for a new owner and a more stable shareholder set-up at the container shipping line.

The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement on Thursday elected Kim Young Min, president and CEO of Hanjin Lines, as the new chairman of its executive committee, replacing Neptune Orient Lines CEO Ron Wi

Port Everglades, Fla., announced that it will waive tariffs for relief cargo being sent to Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Asia’s containerized exports to Europe grew 2.4 percent in November, the first year-over-year growth in the key world trade lane during 2009, according to the European Liner Affairs Association.

Officials with Crowley Maritime were in touch with relief organizations about shipping emergency aid to Haiti Wednesday, but the company was still trying to determine what would be needed or how it co

A.P. Moller-Maersk named Stephen Fraser as head of the Danish group’s information technology division.

Seaboard Marine announced Jan. 13 that it will not receive cargo consigned to Haiti until further notice.

Evergreen Line on Wednesday announced it will increase rates next month on westbound cargos it carries from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Far East, including Japan and Australia, and the Indian

The spot rate for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles jumped 10 percent so far this week compared to the week ended Jan.

A Somali suspect in the hijacking of the U.S.-flag Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean last April has been charged with involvement in two additional hijackings, Federal prosecutors in New York said Tu