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Sofrana Unilines has announced the launch of a new, independent shipping line, Greater Pacific Shipping, to service customers in the Pacific.

The nonprofit organization Maritime Exchange of Southern California has named James Kipling “Kip” Louttit as executive director.

The European Commission has found amendments to an existing Finnish scheme supporting investment in cleaners ships comply with the European Union’s state aid rules.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired all of the shares of Park Ridge, N.J.-based SeaCube Container Leasing in an agreement between the two companies.

Classification of distiller’s dried grains with solubles as non-hazardous cargo has become final and mandatory under the International Maritime Organization’s code.

As China goes, so goes the U.S. export trade in wastepaper and scrap metal. Unfortunately for shippers of these two key commodities, the news from China wasn’t very good in 2012.

CaroTrans has added a new weekly less-than-containerload export service from San Francisco to Japan.

The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation today reported that tonnage during the 2012 navigation season was 38.9 million metric tons, rising 4 percent from 2011’s 37.5 million metric tons.

Bluesea Shipping Lines has expanded its services to include major ports in the Middle East.

International Longshoremen’s Association negotiators apparently plan to stay longer at this week’s negotiations on a coastwide contract than they did last week when they cut short bargaining on New York-New Jersey local issues.

The Panama Canal Authority has issued a notice to Vinci Construction Grands Projets to start building a bridge on the Atlantic side of the canal.

Container lines could earn nearly $5 billion this year, but only if demand meets projections.

Despite carriers’ attempts to pull capacity from east-west trade routes, weak cargo volumes are limiting their to hike freight rates for any sustainable period.

Business development and shipping consulting company Moore Stephens International recently reported that banks will exert more control over the shipping industry in 2013.

Econocaribe has appointed John Kamada as manager of its U.S. West Coast region.

The Port of Baltimore’s Seagirt and Dundalk public marine terminals will be open Saturday for the delivery and receipt of cargo if no agreement is reached...

TT Club, the Port Equipment Manufacturers Association, and cargo-handling association ICHCA International have published recommended safety standards for container yard...

The European Shippers’ Council, which represents freight transportation interests in Europe, has held a meeting to respond to anti-competitive developments in the shipping liner market.

Dockworkers at Charleston refused to unload a ship for about two hours...

The Stifel Nicolaus Logistics Confidence Index, a monthly survey of international shippers and forwarders measuring European-based trade lanes, conducted by Stifel Nicolaus Transportation & Logistics Research Group...

The Saint Lawrence Seaway handled 5.1 million metric tons (about 5.6 million tons) of cargo shipments in November, increasing 11 percent year-over-year.

Representatives of the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance resumed negotiations today...

Container trailer operators on Dec. 15 called off a three-day strike at the APM Terminals facility in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva...

The perennial shortage of containers in the U.S. Midwest is beginning to hamper the export operations of precisely the kind of small companies that President Obama’s National Export Initiative aims to encourage.