CMA CGM said one of its ships, the 5,770-TEU Rossini, lost 14 containers overboard off Ushant at the southern entrance to the western English Channel on the night of Jan. 3. The company-owned ship was sailing from Le Havre to Port Said in Egypt. French maritime authorities were immediately notified, and the […]
Truck gates into the major container terminals of the Port of New York and New Jersey are closed today. Maher Terminals, the port’s largest, said it shut down its truck gates at 4 p.m. on Thursday and will reopen them on Monday.
The Shanghai Container Freight Index was set at 1,176.12 on Friday, Jan. 3, 62.39 points higher than a week earlier. The index is a weighted average of estimated spot container freight rates on 15 routes out of Shanghai to different destinations worldwide and prepared by a panel for the Shanghai Shipping Exchange. […]
Kirby Corp., the nation’s largest tank barge operator and diesel engine services provider, said David W. Grzebinski has been elected president and chief operating officer, and that it plans to make him chief executive officer later this year. Grzebinski has been serving as the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer since […]
The liner carrier said its weekly service to Cuba will begin by using the country’s new shipping terminal in Mariel, instead of Havana. The service will start with the sailing of the ship K Breeze from Port Everglades, Fla., on Jan. 25.
Malcom Purcell McLean Jr., son of containerization pioneer Malcom McLean Sr., died at his home in Orange Beach, Ala., on Sunday, Dec. 29, after a prolonged illness. He is survived by five children: Kemberly Sehoy McLean, Malcom P. McLean III, Jennifer Lacy McLean Sharpe, Christopher George McLean and Andrew Sikes McLean; four grandchildren; […]
A Florida-based management consultant who previously was a port executive suggested that because Florida ports are receiving more assistance from the state they should “engage in an exchange of ideas of how to make our port system better, ideas that may include consolidation or rationalization, and even the long-whispered state port authority, among many […]
COSCO Group said it held a ceremony in Ocean Plaza Dec. 30 for the signing of a shipbuilding contract with China State Shipbuilding Corporation for four 64,000 DWT dry bulk vessels.
The first stage of a container terminal in Cuba at the Mariel Special Development Zone west of Havana will be opened this month by President Raul Castro and Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil.
Holt Logistics Corp. said it has completed a $2 million renovation to its 60,000 square-foot cold storage facility at Gloucester Terminal in Gloucester City, New Jersey.
Owner Reederei NSB said that due to adverse weather conditions in the area, surveyors were unable to go onboard the 4,549-TEU containership MSC Monterey, which developed a crack in its deck and hull, on Monday.
A car carrier collided with a chemical tanker off South Korea’s southeast coast on Sunday, causing the tanker to catch fire, but press reports say 91 crew members on the two ships were rescued safely, though some suffered “light burns or abrasions.” A report in the Korea Times said the ro-ro ship Gravity […]
The Panama Canal Authority says its expansion program to add a third set of locks is 70.7 percent complete. Several components are finished, while the construction of the new locks is just 64 percent complete.
The White House has reinstated Mali’s eligibility to receive trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, meaning that 40 of the 49 potentially eligible countries in sub-Saharan Africa are now eligible to receive benefits.
A bulk carrier that had loaded grain in Duluth and went aground in New York State at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, just days before the St. Lawrence Seaway was scheduled to close, has been refloated and is being towed to Montreal.
The amount of capacity on idle, unemployed containerships reached reached 718,000 TEU in mid-December, according to Alphaliner, and “is expected to continue to rise until the end of March, as the current excess supply is aggravated by accelerating vessel deliveries due in the first half of 2014.” Idle capacity averaged 595,000 TEU this year […]
The containership chartering company Seaspan Corp. announced Monday it has entered into an agreement to extend and refinance its $1 billion credit facility. “The refinancing provides multiple benefits for Seaspan and its shareholders, as we extended the maturity of the facility and decreased our total debt position, enabling the company to further strengthen […]
Canada Coast Guard said that four people were removed by helicopter from MSC Monterey, a containership chartered by Mediterranean Shipping Company, on Sunday after the ship reported hull problems.
The ruling had its origins in a dispute between cargo interests and carriers involving the 2007 theft of four consignments of Canon cameras during road transport under CMR terms from a warehouse at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands to Willich, Germany.
A spokeswoman from Hanjin Shipping said the liner has no plans to reduce its allocation on CKYH alliance services or sell terminals in the United States as a result of the “financial improvement plan,” which it announced last week.
