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Finnish longshoremen and port employers agreed to a new contract March 19, ending a two-week nationwide dock strike that crippled the country’s foreign trade.

The European Liner Affairs Association will phase out and transfer its responsibilities to the World Shipping Council as of July 1, the Brussels-based association of container shipping lines said Frid

Clipper Projects will be opening a new office in Singapore on July 1 after dissolving a long-standing Far Eastern partnership called APC Partnership with BBC Chartering.

MOL said it will revise the port coverage on its Asia-East Coast South America Service by adding calls at Xingang, Dalian, Qingdao, Pusan and Shanghai.

OOCL said it will partially reinstate some of the capacity it had previously withdrawn from the Asia-North Europe trade with the launch of a new service loop to meet rising demand as the trade recover

Matson Navigation is supporting the one of three candidates in a special congressional election who supports the Jones Act, an online news source reported.

The Federal Maritime Commission is starting an investigation of tight vessel capacity that ocean importers and exporters say is hindering their ability to compete in global markets, the commission ann

Hamburg Süd is expanding its services this year between the U.S. West Coast and destinations as far apart as Australasia and North Europe.

Containership charter rates are rallying as ocean carriers scramble for tonnage in response to a stronger-than-expected rebound in cargo volumes as the industry emerges from its deepest recession.

Business, labor and port groups petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow imports of grapes from earthquake-devastated Chile to continue unrestricted next month.

Import-export container traffic through Port Authority of New York and New Jersey terminals fell 12.7 percent last year but leveled off in December and rose 10.9 percent in January.

The French Port of Marseilles Fos said container throughput rose by 24 percent year-over-year in January and February to 159,202 20-foot equivalent units as trade recovered from the global recession.

More ships arrived at their destination ports behind schedule in the fourth quarter, according to the latest Container Shipper Insight report from Drewry Shipping Consultants.

Hanjin Shipping plans to expand its use of the e-commerce services provided by INTTRA, the Internet portal that was founded by a group of carriers a decade ago to create efficiencies for carriers by e

Seaspan said Monday it swung to a profit of $74.7 million in the fourth quarter ended Dec.

Ocean container carriers are significantly boosting cargo capacity on Asia-Europe shipping lanes for the first time in 18 months, threatening to reverse recent strong gains in freight rates.

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Hamburg Süd will seek a general rate increase on all cargo moving from the U.S. East Coast and Eastern Canada to Europe as of May 1, the second increase this year.

Hanjin Shipping expects to earn a profit this year and boost sales 27 percent as world trade picks up and shipping lines cut back on their fleet expansion plans.

Norway's Wilh. Wilhelmsen will spin off its shipping and logistics units in an initial public offering that could raise up to $400 million.

Cosco President Zhang Liang expects to win the rate increase targeted by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement in new contracts as world trade rebounds and shipping lines curb capacity.

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The transportation industry may have gotten involved in pollution reduction later than most industries, and though the transition has been difficult, carriers and shippers no longer doubt the need fo

The Containership Company, a new Norwegian-registered liner company, will make its first U.S. call May 3 at the TraPac Container Terminal in Los Angeles.

OOCL announced Friday that it will no longer provide chassis for transportation of both import and export containers to and from container yards or retail stores originating from or destined to facili

U.S. exports of beef in January were higher than in January of 2009, but pork exports were lower, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

The Army Corps of Engineers will open its Soo Locks four days early to launch the shipping season for Great Lakes freighters, after getting requests from users citing “an improved business clima

The European Shippers Council elected Jean Louis Cambon, head of Michelin Tire’s Ocean Management Committee as the new chairman of its Maritime Transport Council this week.

NEWPORT, R.I.--With the new Importer Security Filing rule still in its shakedown period, Customs and Border Protection is trying to help importers figure out the rule and its own responses to applicat

Hanjin Shipping will launch a new direct service between Asia and Mexico in mid-March when its China America Express Service begins calling at Manzanillo.

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President Obama on Thursday announced an export strategy that includes two high-level panels, financial support and advocacy for exporters, and a reform of antiquated export control laws.

Panalpina, the Swiss global forwarder and logistics services company, fell into the red in the final quarter of 2009 but said it expects ocean and air cargo volumes to recover this year.

President Obama planned to name CEOs from Boeing and Xerox to lead the President’s Export Council, a group aimed at pressing the president’s efforts to expand U.S.

Evergreen Line and China Shipping Container Lines will launch a joint China-Philippines-Thailand Express Service in mid-March.

The rate of growth in Europe-Asia container traffic is picking up pace, and trans-Atlantic cargoes are growing modestly, according to the latest figures from ocean carriers.

Container traffic at major ports in India grew by almost 3 percent in the 11 months from April to February compared with a year earlier, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement.

Two of Japan’s largest shipping firms, NYK and “K” Line, reached agreements with shipbuilders to convert some container ship orders to orders for bulk carriers and other vessels, as

Container throughput at the Port of Hong Kong fell 14 percent in 2009, but fourth quarter figures signaled the beginning of a turnaround.

Ocean carriers are returning laid-up container ships to service at a faster pace to keep up with growing cargo volume, according to a new report by the Alphaliner consultancy.