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Horizon Lines announced a second one-week postponement of a deadline for securing bondholders’ support for a plan to refinance the debt of the largest U.S. domestic ocean carrier.

New York City’s district attorney will indict Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines on Monday on charges that it is part of Iran's effort to obtain banned technology for its nuclear and missil

Somalia jailed an American, three Britons and two Kenyans for illegally bringing $3.6 million in cash into the country, allegedly to pay ransoms for two ships seized by pirates.

The U.S. tries to keep foreign-flag ships from polluting U.S. waters, but not every operator gets the message.

Eivind Kolding took a few verbal barbs after the Maersk Line CEO issued a manifesto on June 7 calling for radical changes to shipping business practices, but that hardly fazed him.

The U.S. economy is heading inexorably toward its next growth cycle, with agricultural exports ripe to help drive expansion, economists, shippers and government officials say.

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Maersk Line will implement a peak-season surcharge for cargo shipped from India to the United States, Guam and Canada.&n

Maersk Line is forecasting double-digit growth for its Asian shipments of palm oil, sugar and rice to Africa this year as demand for food commodities surges in frontier markets, an executive said on F

Some shippers and port executives in Southern California, assessing trans-Pacific shipping prospects at the start of the peak season, say they believe cargo volume will increase mo

Maersk Line in July will implement a peak-season surcharge for cargo shipped from India to the U.S., Guam and Canada.

The Commerce Department is giving exporters relief from tough export control regulations that many companies have decried as an outdated impediment to their ability to export technology that poses lit

U.S. steel exports declined 9.3 percent in April from March and 8.8 percent year-to-year, the Commerce Department said.

Imports at the nation’s largest container ports are expected to remain flat through July before picking up when the annual peak season for holiday shipments begins later this summer, the Nationa

Construction of homes and apartments increased 3.5 percent in May from the previous month but was down 3.4 percent year-to-year, the Commerce Department said.

The Port of Doha, Qatar, plans to award contracts to build the first phase of a new container complex in the gas-rich Persian Gulf state in November.

Hanjin Shipping is teaming up with NYK Line to renew its Far East-Middle East Express service starting from early July.

Vessel operator and owner Diana Containerships on Thursday added a sixth ship to its fleet of containerships for hire.

APL Logistics, looking for greater efficiency matching international and U.S. domestic transport, will deploy its own fleet of 53-foot containers in the North American domestic intermodal market.

Global Ports plans to raise up to $572 million from an initial public offering in London that would value Russia’s largest port operator at $2.4 billion.

Combined container import volume at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach grew 4.8 percent year-over-year in May, slower than the growth rate the month before and behind the 5.1 percent increase in

Vessel calls at U.S. ports increased 13 percent last year as the country recovered from the worst recession in decades, the Maritime Administration said Wednesday.

The volume of containers handled by major ports in India grew a mere 1 percent year-over-year in the first two months of fiscal 2011-12, the Indian Ports Association said Wednesday.

Emirates Shipping Line is joining the Middle East Express Service operated jointly by Cosco Container Lines and Orient Overseas Container Line.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, racing to elevate the Bayonne Bridge, is “working towards a date of 2016” to complete the complex engineering project and clear a path for la

Container ship line CMA CGM appointed Michel Sirat, a longtime executive in the energy industry, to group chief financial officer.

The Broward County Board of County Commissioners Tuesday authorized Port Everglades’ staff to begin talks with the Florida East Coast Railway toward development of an intermodal rail transfer fa

The Port of Corpus Christi Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved funding for the port’s $15.5 million share of the cost of extending the La Quinta Ship Channel and restoring the ecosystem,

Canada this week lifted all import restrictions on Japanese foods, which were imposed on April 1 in the wake of the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant in northeastern Jap

The St. Lawrence Seaway opened this spring with volume up 3.7 percent in the first two months of the season compared with the same months last year.

Six Indian sailors, held captive by Somali pirates for more than 10 months, were freed Monday after a reported $2.1 million ransom payment.

The board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Tuesday approved a restructured lease with the Port Newark Container Terminal that will provide $500 million in private capital investment to

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is raising its freight rates on all export containers shipped from Portugal to the U.S. as of July 7.

The Baltic and International Maritime Council, the world’s largest private shipping organization, elected Yudhishthir Khatau of India as its new president.

The laid-up container ship fleet fell to its lowest level since August 2008 and is still shrinking as ocean carriers activate idle tonnage, Alphaliner reported.

The head of PierPass gate operation at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports says the only pressure on capacity marine terminals comes when large numbers of truckers want to pick up or drop off contain

CSAV’s volume of transported containers increased 6.8 percent in May over April, but the average revenue per container declined.

Container throughput in India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) fell nearly 2 percent year-over-year in the April-May period, the first two months of fiscal 2011-12, the port authority sa

Japan’s Sumitomo Warehouse said today that its wholly owned subsidiary, J-WeSco, signed a contract to acquire a 100 percent stake in Westwood Shipping Lines, a U.S.