Maersk said it will start a new service between the U.S. East Coast and West Coast South America on May 19. The rotation for the new service will be: Philadelphia, Newark, Charleston, Kingston, Balboa, Buenaventura, Callao, Arica, San Antonio, Callao, Balboa, Philadelphia. The company said it will offer export service from Port […]
NYK Line said Monday it will charter eight 14,000-TEU container ships. NYK did not identify who it will charter the new ships from, but said they will be built at the Kure shipyard of Japan Marine United Co. and be delivered between February 2016 and January 2018. The new ships “will have […]
An agreement has been announced for amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention to ensure the provision of assistance to seafarers in the event of their abandonment and for compensation for contractual claims for death and personal injury.
Shippers should prepare for longer transit times and more frequent use of skipped sailings or “blank voyages” by container carriers, according to recent research.
Prices for new dry freight containers increased in the opening months of 2014, according to Drewry Maritime Research. After declining gradually throughout 2013, and falling late in the year to the lowest point since 2009, the price of marine containers have “barely managed to recover 10 percent by April 2014. They presently stand […]
The International Union of Marine Insurance said the percentage of hull “total losses” fell to a record low last year, following a marginal increase in 2012, and said this continues a 15-year trend of reduced total losses.
CMA CGM said it has begun offering a weekly shuttle service between Kingston, Jamaica and Port au Prince, Haiti. The French carrier said it will use the ship Red Spirit in the service. It will leave Kingston on Tuesday and arrive in Port au Prince the next day. The service will allow […]
The Port of Houston Commission has approved a $68 million construction contract with Orion Construction L.P. to fund improvements to the channels leading to the Bayport and Barbours Cut container terminals. The project will deepen the channel and existing container berths at both locations, widen the Bayport Channel and container berths at Barbours […]
HSH Nordbank, a large lender to the shipping industry, said that it “does not expect freight and charter rates and ship prices to start recovering before 2015, and then at a slower pace than hitherto expected.” The Hamburg-based lender said that as a result, “In the fourth quarter of 2013, the bank therefore […]
The nation’s two largest ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach, should collaborate by combining into a single entity, according to a report issued by an independent private commission studying fiscal stability and job growth in Los Angeles.
U.S.-flag vessels on the Great Lakes were bogged down by ice formations in March, “the likes of which have not been seen in decades,” according to the Lake Carriers’ Association.
The Port of Cleveland is expected to receive the first vessel of its newfound container service on April 17. The vessel, Fortunagracht, departed Antwerp last weekend with a load of breakbulk and containerized cargoes.
The Georgia Ports Authority said it handled a record 2.61 million tons of cargo at its terminals in March – a 15.5-percent increase over the same month a year ago. The 349,682-ton increase was met by “double-digit container growth,” GPA said Thursday. The Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal moved 260,539 TEUs for […]
Third party logistics services provider ProTrans has opened a new 222,000-square-foot cargo handling facility in Laredo, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. ProTrans, based in Indianapolis, has operated in Laredo since 1996. “There are no facilities like this in the Laredo marketplace that have as many dock doors, trailer staging/parking areas, as much […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide $183 million in agricultural commodities and support to benefit an estimated 2.7 million children in 10 developing countries as part of the McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. Through the McGovern-Dole Program, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service works with private voluntary organizations and foreign governments […]
The largest export market for U.S. pork and beef in February was Mexico, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Meat Export Federation. Beef sales to Mexico in the first two months of 2014 were up 26 percent in volume, to 37,638 metric tons, and 40 percent in […]
A 24-hour strike planned by union transportation workers in Argentina on Thursday is expected to the port of San Lorenzo-Rosario, transits at Zona Comun and pilot boat operations through Rio de la Plata and the Parana River.
A new study from Dynamar of the roll-on/roll-off shipping business, found that while the conventional deepsea ro/ro fleet is contracting, the vehicle carrier fleet is growing.
The Port of Baltimore said it handled record amounts of automobiles, containers and wood pulp in 2013. In total, the amount of general cargo at the port’s public marine terminals reached 9.6 million tons, matching last year’s record. Combining the private marine terminals, the port saw 30.3 million tons of international cargo cross […]
Crowley Maritime Corporation has acquired majority ownership of Accord Ship Management (HK) Limited and Accord Marine Management Pvt. Ltd., which provide third-party international crewing and technical ship management.
