Container Shipping News

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.

Maersk Line parent A.P. Moller-Maersk postponed a planned bond issue worth up to $1.44 billion because of poor market conditions, analysts told Reuters on 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

Neptune Orient Lines today announced $1.54 billion of contracts for 10 new 14,000 20-equivalent unit ships, two 9,200 TEUs vessels and upgrades to 10 ships it ordered last year.

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.

Chilean carrier CSAV said Monday it will suspend its Asiam service from India, Southeast Asia and China to the U.S.

Container ship owner-charterer Seaspan took delivery of the first of new eight containerships with capacities of 13,100 20-foot-equivalent units.

Container ship line APL says the fast-growing U.S.

Horizon Lines is extending for another week its deadline to line up commitments for $350 million in secured senior notes, a key part of the

Just 1,401 20-foot equivalent units separate Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping at the top two spots in The Journal of Commerce rankings of the Top 40 Import Container Lines for the first quarter

The peak-season surcharge carriers intended to impose in the eastbound Pacific beginning June 15 is a casualty of the soft patch in the U.S. economy.

When the deal to sell the Port of Galveston’s facilities to an investor group of Hutchison Port Holdings and Carlyle Group fell through in April, the port and financial adviser BMO Capital Marke

Horizon Lines says it has found a way out of a financial crisis triggered by the company’s guilty plea and fine for price-fixing in the Puerto Rico trade.

The Port of New Orleans and the terminal operator owned by Mediterranean Shipping Co.

The threat level is rising along with the water along the Mississippi River, endangering two-thirds of U.S.

The Port of Houston doesn’t have to wait for the opening of the Panama Canal’s larger locks in 2014 for the arrival of bigger post-Panamax ships.