Container Shipping News

Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port, said total cargo volume hit a record high in 2010, buoyed by record container traffic driven by surging world trade and a booming German economy.

Ocean container carriers will levy an average fee of $25 per bill of lading for all cargo entering the European Union in 2011 when the bloc’s advanced manifest rule comes into effect.

The Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey, seeking to settle a problem critical to the port’s future, said Wednesday it will propose to raise the roadbed of the Bayonne Bridge rather than

United Arab Shipping Company will seek a general rate increase on the westbound trade from India to Europe and the Mediterranean, as part of a new rate restoration program.

Containerized cargo out of Port Everglades, Fla., exceeded previous-year volume by 9.6 percent in October and November, the port said Tuesday.

Diana Shipping, the NYSE-listed dry bulk ship owner, is to spin off 80 percent of its majority-owned container shipping unit through a separate listing on NASDAQ.

Antwerp boosted container traffic by 16.1 percent in 2010 from a depressed 2009, helping the port to retain its ranking as Europe’s second largest box port after Rotterdam.

CSAV will pay nearly triple its current ship charter rate to extend use of a medium-sized container ship for 12 months, a stark sign of rapidly rising in the market for chartering vessels.

A record 61 container ships of more than 7,500 TEUs capacity were delivered in 2010 and even more will join the world box ship fleet in 2011, according to a leading industry analyst.

Shippers in the Northeast were hit by service delays, but ocean, truck and air cargo operators said operations were returning to normal after a blizzard Sunday brought the region nearly to a

The Indian Shipping Ministry ordered all major port authorities to strictly implement new measures to improve the security and handling of hazardous materials, the ministry said.

Germany's Duisburg port, the world’s busiest inland port, boosted container traffic 25 percent in 2010 from the year before, outpacing growth at Europe’s top box hubs.

OOCL on Thursday announced increases in terminal handling charges for China mainland traffic to and from Australia, effective Jan. 3.

Two bills that could have had significant consequences for the supply chain died quietly as the 111th Congress adjourned Wednesday.

Maersk Line said it will raise ocean freight rates from the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent to northern Europe and the Mediterranean twice during the first quarter of 2011.

The heavy rains in Southern California this past week caused mudslides and road closures throughout the region, but the harbor drayage community in Los Angeles-Long Beach kept on trucking.

Wisconsin's ballast water regulations are too strict, according to a study by the state's environmental department.

Container traffic at Baltimore posted year-to-year increases of 5.7 percent in November and 16.9 percent during the first 11 months of this year.

The Canaveral Port Authority closed on a $42 million loan to help fund the $100 million construction of two cargo piers and a cruise terminal at Port Canaveral.

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a motion to expand the port's clean-truck program to cover the smaller Class 7 trucks that have entered harbor service this past year.

Hainan P O Shipping expanded its trans-Pacific service to include a weekly call at the Port of Oakland.

Container volume through the Port of Charleston in November increased 12.6 percent from a year earlier, the 11th consecutive month of growth.

Hamburg said it will freeze 2011 harbor dues at 2010 levels amid an increasingly competitive battle for cargo, especially containers and break bulk shipments.

Europe’s ports will finish this year with a 13.8 percent increase in containerized import volumes that will approach 2008 levels, with additional increases expected in 2011, a new forecast says.

Forth Ports said Tuesday its Scottish ports and a flagship container terminal near London were performing in line with expectations despite severe weather conditions that have snarled transport across

The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index fell to its lowest level since the start of the year in the week ending Dec.

The American Trucking Associations told a federal regulatory agency that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey lacks legal authority to establish a “voluntary” program that would use stickers

The Port of New York and New Jersey said all its terminals and the SeaLink office will be closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. All terminals will reopen Dec.

CMA CGM announced an emergency congestion surcharge of $82 per 20-foot container on services between Europe and Port Botany in Sydney, Australia, effective Jan. 15, 2011.

APM Terminals is working with Italian banking company Unicredit Group on the development of a container terminal at the northern Adriatic port of Monfalcone.

Container traffic at Savannah and auto shipments at Brunswick, Ga., posted double-digit increases in November from last year’s volumes, the Georgia Port Authority said.

The first two gantry cranes arrived Dec.

After a painful fall and a slow climb back, U.S.

The cynics among export control advocates say many presidential administrations promise reform, few get started and none finish the task.

Nine months after launching a high-profile investigation into pricing and service disputes between shippers and carriers that boiled over last spring, the Federal Maritime Commission remedy appears to

The ports of Baltimore and Virginia hunger for the cargo that moves through the Port of New York and New Jersey to and from points beyond the densely populated region around the East Coast’s big

Ocean carriers aren’t waiting for the seasonal downturn in demand to take a breather in the container ship charter market.

The first ship in Horizon Lines’ new China-to-U.S. service departed Shanghai for Los Angeles.

A federal judge's ruling dismissing many lawsuits involving FedEx Ground contractors likely won't affect broader battles over the classification of transportation workers at ports and on highways, a t

When President Obama in March announced the National Export Initiative, skeptics scoffed at his goal of doubling U.S. exports as unrealistic.