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DHL this week launched direct less-than-container-load service from New York and Chicago to Pusan, South Korea.

After almost two years of litigation and appeals, U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

Mediterranean Shipping Company’s “Golden Gate Service” made its inaugural call Thursday at the Port of Charleston, when the first vessel in the service to call Charleston, the MSC Ri

The French port of Marseilles Fos said it is seeing signs of recovery in the world economy as the cargo volume handled by the twin ports in January rose 10 percent over the previous January.

Swedish ship-owner Transatlantic AB swung to an operating loss of $30.3 million in 2009 from a year earlier profit of $36.4 million on sharply lower volume and freight rates in its core breakbulk and

Shipping lines that carry U.S. exports to Asia intend to increase their freight rates effective April 1 in a continuing attempt to recover from last year's recessionary rate levels.

Mediterranean Shipping Company announced Thursday a general rate increase on exports from North America to Europe and the Mediterranean as of April 1.

The Chinese infrastructure construction company China Gezhouba Group Company, based in Wuhan, China, will build a 254-megawatt hydropower plant for Limited Kazakhstan Natural Gas Technology Company ov

There is no slowdown in sight for Chinese steel output, according to a prediction from the Chinese Iron and Steel Association.

Steel imports increased by 15.9 percent in January compared to December, but the effects of the recession left business down 31 percent from January 2009.

Japan's exports to the rest of the world rose for the second consecutive month in January, surging 40.9 percent from a year earlier to $54.5 billion, according to preliminary figures released by the F

Ocean carriers and charter shipowners canceled 140 container ship orders since the global financial crisis erupted in September 2008.

Overseas Orient Container Lines, extending the shipping world's push toward higher prices, said Tuesday it will increase freight rates by $100 per 20-foot container as of March 1 on cargo moving from

Hanjin Shipping expects to post a profit this year and boost revenue 27 percent as world trade picks up and shipping lines cut fleet expansion plans, according to Bloomberg News.

India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to recall a decree, issued last week, requiring ship agents to arrange for mooring services for vessels calling at the west coast hub.

The executive directors of the six major container ports on the West Coast urged Congress to include additional funding for the Diesel Reduction Act in upcoming jobs-creation legislation.

Port Manatee, Fla., is seeking bids for the dredging of the port’s new berth 12. The new 1,600-foot berth is expected to be operational by the end of 2010.

A federal court in San Francisco on Friday followed through with a plea agreement and fined the operator of the Cosco Busan $10 million for a November 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay.

Container throughput at major ports in India grew 1 percent during the April-January period compared with a year earlier, the Indian Ports Association said in a statement on Monday.

Hamburg Süd said it will replace its current service between the Mediterranean and the Caribbean through a slot-charter agreement with Hapag-Lloyd’s MGX service.

A large European non-vessel-owning common carrier will become the first forwarder to offer less--than-containerload booking through the electronic platform created by INTTRA, the electronic portal fou

CMA CGM, which has been heavily involved in relief efforts in Haiti since the earthquake devastated the country on Jan.

For a company that lost more than $1 billion in 2009 and is almost certain to spend 2010 in the red, Hapag-Lloyd seems an unlikely recovery story.

Navigating through a storm of historic magnitude, any ship captain probably would be expected to make adjustments and even look for an entirely new course.

The North American intermodal business is developing a split personality.

BNSF’s top intermodal executive concedes the western railroads have permanently lost much of their East Coast market share to all-water container shipping services from Asia, but Steve Branscum

Mediterranean Shipping Co. said it is temporarily using several 8,085-TEU ships, the largest to call at U.S.

The Federal Maritime Commission has given members of the carrier discussion group in the eastbound Pacific the authority to talk about strategies intended to reduce air emissions, water pollution and

APL said Friday it will apply a general rate increase to all cargo moving from the Far East to India and Pakistan.

State-owned Shipping Corporation of India will seek a rate increase on the westbound trades from India to Europe, as part of what it called a rate restoration program.

CMA CGM will seek a general rate increase on all westbound cargo on the EPIC Service from India and Pakistan to Europe and the Mediterranean, starting March 1.

Container volume at the Port of Long Beach increased in January for the second straight month, while total traffic in neighboring Los Angeles was down only 2.39 percent.

Diana Shipping, a Greek bulk carrier owner, agreed to invest $50 million in a new company being formed to buy container ships.

PD Logistics, part of the PD Ports Group, will handle all British imports of Tsingtao Beer from China under a new contract with the UK’s largest independent drinks manufacturer and distributor,

Dean Tracy, director of international logistics at Lowe’s, had a devilish time getting his spring and summer merchandise on vessels leaving Asian ports in late January.

For shippers and carriers in the U.S.-Southeast Asian trade lanes, the best times are yet to come.

Bulk shippers and carriers routinely buy and sell futures contracts called freight forward agreements based on the Baltic Dry Index of bulk rates, to hedge against the risk that a rise or fall i

If you had told importers a year ago vessel capacity out of Shanghai would be so tight in early 2010 they might have to shift some ocean freight to air, you might have been laughed off the docks.

Five shipping lines are setting up a new vessel-sharing agreement that will start service in April between Asia and the East Coast of South America via South Africa.

Norwegian ship-owners Feb. 12 won a legal victory against the government's bid to raise $3.8 billion in back taxes.