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U.S. reefer exports to Latin America total only about 10 percent of the volume of reefer exports to Asia. And only one reefer container goes southbound from the U.S.

Chris Connor keeps close track of his customers’ moods because that’s the only way he can tell whether he’s going to be able to fill his car carriers, and he is starting to see their moods change.

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Three Beluga vessels, Fraternity, Foresight and Family are now in transit or in port along Russia’s Arctic-facing northern shore, the fabled Northeast Passage.

Maersk, the world's biggest ocean container carrier, swung to a $402 million second quarter loss from a year-earlier profit of $198 million as cargo volume and freight rates plunged deeply across its

Evergreen Line is adding the Far East and Indian Sub-Continent to Mediterranean Westbound Trades to its list of trade lanes to get a general rate increase as the peak season approaches and other ocean

India’s Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure on Aug.

Containerized cargo traffic at the Port of New York and New Jersey fell 18.8 percent in June as an accelerating decline in exports offset slight improvement in imported business, the Port Authority sa

Container trade imports will fall 20 percent in August and September and another 18 percent in October, pushing overall retail imports for 2009 down to the lowest level since 2002, industry forecaster

Deutsche Bahn, Germany's state-owned rail company, earned less than half the profit of a year ago due to "massive declines" in rail, ocean and air cargo volume.

The container ship order book is down to its lowest point since 2005 as ocean carriers and charter ship owners impose a buying freeze in a bid to rein in capacity amid plunging freight rates and shrin

Average spot rates for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles grew 5.5 percent in the week ending Aug.

The global recession brought volume and earnings down significantly at the Port of Charleston. Profit plummeted 53 percent to $25.7 million for the fiscal year ending June 30.

Container volumes at West Coast ports in July lagged far behind last year's numbers.

India’s Port of Mumbai agreed to extend concessions on empty container storage charges for a further period of one year ending September 2010 in response to appeals from port users and the trade

The Russian navy arrested eight men for hijacking the freighter Arctic Sea, the Associated Press reported.

Hamburg's container traffic plunged 28.7 percent in the first six months of 2009 from a year ago, much deeper than declines at close rivals Rotterdam and Antwerp amid collapsing box imports from its k

If North American intermodal shipping were only a domestic business, there would be plenty of reason to say things are bottoming out.

Emboldened by improving vessel utilization under steep capacity cuts, carriers in the eastbound Pacific are warning cargo consolidators: If you don’t agree to pay higher freight rates, securing space

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Last year’s gut-wrenching drop in global steel demand appears to be easing as rust-belt steel manufacturers gingerly begin restarting idled mills and recalling workers.

French carrier CMA CGM will implement a general rate increase for cargo moving on its services from India to destinations in West Africa, effective Sept. 1.

A leader in the New York-New Jersey port trucking community said he is among drayage operators who have signed up to rent Maersk Line chassis under the company’s new Direct ChassisLink program b

Rickmers Maritime Trust, the Singapore-based containership owner and charterer, said its profit for the second quarter ended June 30 dropped 43 percent to $5.33 million from $9.2 million in the same q

The 8,400-TEU container ship Zim Los Angeles made its first call at the Port of Seattle, demonstrating that ocean carriers see the Pacific Northwest as a viable gateway for mega-ships.

Thomas Thune Andersen, the chief executive of Maersk Oil and former president and CEO of Maersk in the U.S., will leave his position as CEO of Maersk Oil and partner of Firmaet A.P.

While the global recession was driving container shipping into a deep contraction in the first half of 2009, the way shippers placed their remaining orders underwent a

The index of average spot prices for shipping a 40-foot container from Hong Kong to Los Angeles jumped by 57.4 percent in the week ended Aug.

NYK Line will implement a general rate increase for all dry and refrigerated containers to and from U.S. and Canadian ports to all port in Northern Europe as of Sept. 14.

Shipments of rail-truck intermodal cargoes across the United States and Canada are showing more signs of life, but are swamped by continued sharp declines for international shipments that are mainly o

PD Ports completed the first phase of expanding the container terminal handling facilities at Teesport on the UK’s northeast coast.

The first ship to call at the Port of Seattle's new Terminal 30 arrived on Saturday, the Port Authority said.

Despite the global economic recession, Santos, the largest port in Latin America, reported a throughput of 38.4 million tons in the first half, or 3 percent higher than in the same period of 2008.

Hamburg Süd and its Brazilian affiliate Aliança plan to merge their Tango service with CSAV’s USAtlan service to reduce capacity on the trade lane between the U.S.

French carrier CMA CGM will join Mediterranean Shipping Company as a vessel operator in a trans-Atlantic loop at the end of September in an effort to match capacity to dwindling demand.

Breakbulk and heavylift specialist Rickmers-Linie in partnership with Escombe Lambert Holdings established a liner agency in the UK.

CMA CGM Group will increase freight rates in the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic trades, effective Sept. 1, the company announced Monday.

Bolloré Africa Logistics said it won a 25-year concession to operate the container terminal under construction at the port of Cotonou in Benin.

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