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CMA CGM announced Nov. 12 a general rate increase on freight from the United States and Canada to Australia and New Zealand.

HHLA, Hamburg's leading container stevedore, reported steep declines in third quarter revenue and profit as box traffic slumped in its key Asia-Europe and Baltic markets.

APM Terminals, the container terminals division of A.P.

The port of Rotterdam said it will give ocean ships and inland river barges a 7 percent "once-only crisis rebate" on harbor dues in 2010, the first reduction in tariffs in over 20 years.

Danish shipping giant A.P.

Royal Boskalis Westminster of the Netherlands, the world’s biggest dredging company, agreed to take over Smit Internationale, the Rotterdam-based harbor tug, marine salvage and heavy lift shippi

Charter shipowner Danaos Corp. saw its profit drop by 41.4 percent in the third quarter ended Sept.

Absorption of industrial real estate space is trending upward and port container volumes in November could experience the first year-over-year gain since July 2008, according to a new index introduced

Grand Alliance partners Hapag-Lloyd, NYK Line and OOCL said Wednesday they will reduce their Asia-Europe services during the winter from four loops to three starting from Dec. 28.

Dockworkers at Piraeus, Greece's largest port, suspended a six-week-old strike campaign Nov.

A unique “fuel switching” test by a Maersk Line container ship as it plies the Gulf of Mexico will determine how much air pollution can be cut when the ship changes to a cleaner-burning fu

Birdsall, Inc., a subsidiary of Nicor and parent company of Tropical Shipping, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Miami-based Deluxe Freight. Terms of the agreement were not announced.

CMA CGM, facing economic troubles that threaten the carrier's financial stability, took delivery Tuesday of one of the world's largest container ships, a 13,300-TEU behemoth that will become the compa

Global Ship Lease, a containership charter owner listed on the New York Stock Exchange, posted a net loss of $3.9 million in the third quarter ended Sept.

Thousands of containers are piling up at Piraeus, Greece's biggest port, after dock workers extended a week-long strike for another 48 hours in protest against an agreement with China's Cosco Pacific.

Rickmers Maritime Trust, a Singapore-based charter ship owner, was unable to take delivery of a vessel it had ordered for charter to Hanjin Shipping in the third quarter because of financing troubles

NOL, the Singapore-base parent of APL, said that container volume and yield per container both increased in the four-week period from Sept. 18 to Oct. 16 for the second monthly gain in a row.

Bruce J. Carlton took charge at the National Industrial Transportation League just as the economy began its worst contraction in decades.

Neptune Orient Lines is relocating its administration and service center in China to the western city of Chongqing.

The Orcelle Fund, a grant-awarding body created by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, is looking for innovative new maritime projects to support.

OOCL on Friday announced a peak season surcharge on shipments of westbound refrigerated cargo from Europe to Montreal.

Seaspan, the Hong Kong charter ship owner, posted a loss of $65.9 million for the third quarter ended Sept.

The Southern Africa Europe Container Service Lines will introduce an additional container service to accommodate primarily the seasonal increase in refrigerated exports from South Africa to Europe dur

Expeditors International of Washington saw its net profit fall 33 percent in the third quarter, to $57.8 million, as tighter capacity and rising prices in ocean and air transport services cut into fre

Dock workers in Piraeus began a 48 hour strike Nov. 3 in a fresh bid to prevent China's Cosco Pacific taking over two of the three container quays at Greece's biggest port.

The prices of the kinds of commodities that manufacturers around the world use to make industrial products hit a record high in the week at the end of October, according to the Industrial price Index

Ocean container carriers seeking extra cargoes are failing to grab market share from conventional refrigerated vessels despite "desperate marketing and pricing tactics," a leading reefer ope

Following similar moves by several other carriers in recent weeks in taking advantage of capacity cuts on the trans-Atlantic, Hanjin Shipping on Monday said it will raise its freight rates on the tran

Net profit for state-owned Shipping Corporation of India fell 88 percent from a year earlier to $7.3 million in the second quarter ending Sept. 30.

Evergreen Line said Friday it will increase rates in December and January on cargo on outbound containers from North America to Europe, Asia, Australasia and the Middle East.

Five years ago, the U.S.

SHENZHEN, China — No one can accuse Electrolux’s Bjorn Vang Jensen of complaining about volatile shipping rates and not doing anything about them.

Transloading volumes at West Coast ports are down, but importers’ interest in transloading is up as companies look to take cost out of their supply chains.

Specialized reefer vessels may be losing the battle to gain market share to the world’s container fleet, but last month the sector won a battle of the green.

While the reefer sector has avoided the catastrophic drop in business felt by container carriers handling “dry” cargoes, rates and volume for refrigerated shipments have dipped this year.

For all the gloom and doom that container lines have been expressing about falling volumes, one segment of the trade has been holding up fairly well — the reefer trade.

France's biggest dock workers’ union called for a 24-hour strike at France's seven largest ports on Nov. 6 in the latest protest against government plans to privatize container handling.

China Cosco Holdings, parent of Cosco Container Lines, posted a loss of $101.2 million Thursday for the quarter ended Sept.

Alexander & Baldwin said Wednesday that Matson Navigation, its ocean transportation segment, earned an operating profit of $24.2 million in the third quarter ended Sept.

Neptune Orient Lines posted a $139 million loss in the third quarter ended Sept.