Maritime

The Senate passed legislation, as part of the ABLE Act, to enact a 9-cent increase to the barge diesel fuel user fee.

Carbofin S.PA. pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships related to the deliberate concealment of vessel pollution.

Barge service will provide added capacity for shippers as Horizon Lines leaves trade.

ILWU sends PMA proposals, as Congressman Bill Shuster writes to president about West Coast Longshore negotiations.

The U.S. International Trade Commission determined the country’s makers of carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod are harmed by similar imports from China.

APM Terminals’ Maasvlakte II terminal in Rotterdam will receive all of its electric power supply from Europe’s wind farms — both on- and offshore.

Shipments of limestone on U.S.-flag vessels plying the Great Lakes reached 2.7 million tons in November, a decrease of 4.4%, year-over-year.

During the past year, CSX transported about 100,000 tons of the fossilized shell to help rebuild habitat in two Maryland oyster sanctuaries.

The firm found that shippers are likely to ask that most fuel savings to be passed on to them and will benefit more than carriers from lower prices.

Berkeley scientists see big drop from 2009 in emissions of black carbon and nitrogen oxides.

UPS has added three buildings and expanded another in North America, adding another 1.2 million square feet of capacity to its distribution network.

Sources say a comprehensive proposal was sent by management to union last week.

   To say that American shippers are angry as hell with West Coast dock labor, along with their terminal employers and the liner carriers, is an understatement.    The International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association have been negotiating a new contract to replace the one that expired on July 1 with little […]

Container Analytics with Ben Meyer     One of the biggest stories in the container shipping industry at the moment is the massive congestion problems at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. As with most complex issues, there is no single cause for the delays and congestion that has been building now for […]

Founder of cargo booking website Cargo Chief traces origins to problems he faced as a shipper.

   Management consultant Oliver Wyman suggests the container shipping industry needs to focus on yield management to regain profitability.    Joris D’Incà, a partner at Oliver Wyman’s office in Zurich, said liner companies have focused on restructuring, optimization and cost-cutting—taking steps such as renegotiating port tariffs, optimizing stowage, reducing the cost of overhead structure, slow […]

   Just before Thanksgiving I spoke with Andrew Kinsey, a senior marine risk consultant for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, who addressed a variety of issues on his radar screen.    A retired master for both Maersk Line, Ltd. and the U.S. Military Sealift Command, he was returning from Alabama where he had done a […]

Changes coming to Alaska and Hawaii; Puerto Rico loses a long-time carrier.

With CSAV deal complete, German carrier should return to black quickly says CEO Rolf Habben Jansen.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank on Thursday said it will guarantee a $50 million loan to finance the export of 55 American-made bridge sets to Cameroon.