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Marad says the time has come to separate the liners from the bulkers.

The growth in the world container ship fleet will slow this year to the lowest rate this decade as ocean carriers defer deliveries of new vessels and boost scrapping of older tonnage to record levels.

The year long decline in Asia-Europe container traffic has slowed significantly, in a major boost for carriers attempting to push through higher ocean freight rates on the world's biggest liner trade.

MISC Berhad will upgrade its Halal Express Service linking the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East, effective later this month.

As container volume fell through August, average revenue plummeted even further for Neptune Orient Lines.

While many are focused on the plight of the ocean carrier industry, wondering when the first bankruptcy will occur or when the first announcement of one carrier buying another

Shell-shocked by plunging cargo volume and tumbling freight rates in Europe-Asia container trade lanes over the past year, ocean carrier executives are sensing a turning market amid reports some ship

The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles intend soon to eliminate a reporting requirement that cargo interests said was an unnecessary and costly administrative burden associated with the ports' clean-

The Canadian government will provide the Montreal Port Authority up to US$8.4 million in infrastructure stimulus funding to build a common access portal for trucks.

A crew member on a container ship died early Thursday after he fell overboard near the San Francisco Bay Bridge while preparing a portside gangway but not wearing a required life jacket, the company s

Following a $50 million restoration after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, Chiquita has moved back to its original berths on the Port of Gulfport’s west pier.

Hamburg Süd consolidated its three West Coast liner services at a single terminal in the San Francisco Bay area.

OOCL said it will raise freight rates on its routes from Asia to Australia in two stages beginning Sept. 15.

Container throughput in the port of Hong Kong fell to 5.2 million 20-foot equivalent units in the second quarter of 2009, down 17 percent from the same quarter last year as the global recession cut de

The Beluga multi-purpose heavy lift project carriers Fraternity and Foresight reached their Siberian destination of Novyy Port on Monday and have begun discharging the plant modules they carried from

Losses sustained by liner companies hit more than $6 billion in the first six months of the year, according to AXS-Alphaliner.

The Danish Shipowners' Association said its members did not want to see any direct subsidies of their hard-hit industry nor any bending of European competition rules that ban cartel-like activity.

The port of Rotterdam Authority said its first half earnings fell nine percent from a year ago as traffic fell and fewer ships visited Europe’s biggest ocean cargo hub.

Green Reefers, a leading reefer ship-owner, blamed fierce competition from cargo hungry container carriers, for losing money in the seasonally strong second quarter.

Over several years, U.S.

The Justice Department’s “vessel pollution initiative” has gone from an intensive blitz against maritime environmental crime to a long, hard slog with no end in sight.

Hapag-Lloyd’s owners have returned a stake in a Hamburg container terminal to the struggling German ocean carrier in order to qualify for $1.7 billion of state-backed loans.

The Alliance St. Louis, a Maersk Line, Limited vessel loaded rolling stock cargo for the U.S. military at APM Terminals Virginia at the Port of Portsmouth.

The Beluga multipurpose heavy-lift vessels Fraternity and Foresight, both ice class E3, have now convoyed with the nuclear-powered Russian Atomflot ice breaker 50 let Pobedy (50 Years Since Victory) t

A.P. Moller-Maersk raised nearly $1.6 billion from the sale of shares with some of the proceeds likely to be earmarked for expansion of its global container terminal operations.

Union rejection of a contract extension for Atlantic and Gulf dockworkers probably means talks on a new contract won’t resume until next year – and when they do, management’s positio

Maersk Line will launch a weekly feeder service between Vietnam and Hong Kong this month connecting with a trans-Pacific loop the carrier says will provide the fastest transit time from Vietnam to the

International Longshoremen’s Association delegates unanimously rejected a proposed two-year extension of the ILA's contract for Atlantic and Gulf dockworkers on Wednesday.

The New York Terminal conference, representing marine terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey, issued a revised schedule of charges that includes no change in demurrage and free time for cont

Babcock & Brown Infrastructure, the Australian parent of Euroports, the leading European bulk/break bulk stevedore, halted trading in its shares on the Sydney stock exchange Sept.

The Asian Shippers Council is fighting an emergency fuel surcharge container lines are seeking on shipping between Taiwan and South China, according to published reports in the region.

DHL launched less-than-containerload service from Vietnam to the United States and Europe, the company’s forwarding division announced.

Two ports along Oregon's Columbia River are putting together multi-million projects aimed at helping shippers gain easier access to the Puget Sound ports of Seattle and Tacoma, according to a report i

Zim Integrated Shipping Service's 10,000-TEU Zim Djibouti was at the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 18 on Thursday, Aug. 27. The vessel is the largest to call at the port.

DP World, the global container terminal operator, buys a majority stake in Brazil’s largest private multimodal facility in the city of Santos.

Forth Ports, the UK's last publicly traded ports company, reported profit fell 10 percent in the first six months of 2009 from a year ago on flat cargo volume.

The Port of Houston is expected to name businessman Alec G. Dreyer executive director of the Port of Houston Authority later this month, according to Port Commission Chairman James T. Edmonds.

DP World, the world’s fourth largest container terminal operator, warned of tough conditions ahead as net profit in the first half of 2009 fell by around a third from a year ago on lower box vol

Clarksons, the world's biggest shipbroker and shipping services company, reported first half operating profit dipped 35 percent from a year ago as shipping markets weakened on reduced global trade.