A showdown could be in the works next month over who has the right to repair chassis used to move containers to and from marine terminals. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the management group that bargains with them, the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), sent a joint letter dated August 6 to […]
Seaspan Corp., which builds containerships and charters them to liner companies, said it will build and charter 10 additional 14,000-TEU ships to Yang Ming. In January, Seaspan said it had signed deals to have Hyundai Heavy Industries build five similar ships, three of which it will own and two of which it will […]
The Diamond State Port Corp., which operates the Port of Wilmington, Del., and Dole Food Co. said they have reached a deal for Dole to continue to use the port for the next 15 years.
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) in the Port of Hampton Roads voted 520 to 483 on Monday to reject the terms and conditions of a new local agreement. The Virginia Maritime Association said in a notice posted on its site that “there will be no immediate impact to port operations. The […]
CSAV, the Chilean container shipping company, said that its board on Tuesday approved plans to sell, then lease back, two 6,500-TEU containerships. It said “the transaction is in line with the company’s strategy of having larger and more efficient ships.” The two ships, built in 2006 by Hyundai Heavy Industries (South Korea), […]
UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, has electronically published the latest edition of its liner shipping connectivity index. The agency notes that a country’s access to world markets depends largely on its transport connectivity, “especially as regards regular shipping services for the import and export of manufactured goods.” The […]
The Fairview Container Terminal at the Port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia is adding a fourth container crane, even as a member of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission questioned whether growth in U.S.-bound cargo moving through the facility might be flattening. A new container handling gantry crane arrived at the Port of Prince […]
China’s first merchant ship to sail from Asia to Europe via the Arctic Sea departed Dalian last week. The Website SinoShip News reports COSCO’s multi-purpose ship Yong Sheng, is scheduled to arrive in Rotterdam port on Sept. 11. The wire service AFP reported that according to Rosatomflot, a Russian operator of icebreakers, […]
The London-based consultancy reported even though some cargo booked from Asia to Europe was rolled at the beginning of July “some ships still sailed light due to last-minute booking cancellations.”
Maersk Line has taken delivery of Majestic Maersk, the second of 20 18,270-TEU containerships being built for it by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. Mikkel Elbek Linnet, a spokesman for Maersk, said the ship should start rotation today, Aug. 12, but was unable to confirm a report that the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, […]
Non-vessel-operating common carrier CaroTrans will offer a new direct, weekly less-than-containerload (LCL) and full containerload (FCL) export service from Houston to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The first sailing from Houston is Aug. 20 with arrival in Rio de Janeiro Sept. 14, a 25-day transit. This new offering compliments the NVO’s existing direct Houston-to-Santos […]
MOL said it has completed measures to reinforce the hulls of three sister ships of the MOL Comfort, the 2008-built containership that suffered a hull fracture in the Indian Ocean in mid-June and eventually sank Work strengthening the MOL Celebration, MOL Courage, and MOL Creation was recently completed, and the ships began to return […]
“K” Line Zhenhua Logistics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. has opened a new warehouse in a Logistics Park of Shanghai Lingang New Town. The two-story, 43,890-square-meter warehouse is located on the Shanghai side of the bridge connecting Shanghai City and the Yanshang deep-water port. The facility is designed to handle a wide variety of […]
The United States and an economic bloc of five East African countries have agreed to launch formal negotiations on a trade facilitation agreement, announced U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on Monday. The move is part of President Obama’s Trade Africa initiative following a U.S.-East African Community (EAC) Trade Ministerial Meeting. The EAC is […]
Crowley Maritime Corp. has announced plans for a major expansion of its tanker fleet, saying it has entered agreements to have Aker Philadelphia Shipyard Inc. (APSI) build up to eight product tankers for delivery between 2015 and the end of 2017. JacksonvilleFla.-based Crowley said it had signed contracts for the first four 50,000-deadweight-ton (330,000-barrel) tankers to […]
The Korean liner carrier reported a loss of 80.4 billion won ($72.4 million) in the second quarter of 2013 compared to a loss of 1.2 billion won in the same quarter of 2012. Total sales in the second quarter were 2.67 trillion won.
The firm said its analysis “shows that only Ambarli and Constanta currently have the operational capabilities to handle 10,000-TEU vessels, while Odessa will get the ability in the future, if the vessels can dock at two consecutive quays.”
Shipments of coal on the Great Lakes reached 2.9 million tons in July, an increase of 2.5 percent over June, and a jump of 7.3 percent compared to a year ago, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association. Shipments from Lake Superior ports totaled 1.8 million tons, an increase of 16.1 percent compared to a year […]
Orient Overseas (International) Ltd. (OOIL), parent company of container liner company OOCL, said it had a loss of $15 million in the first half of 2013 compared to a profit of $117 million in the first half of 2012.
The banana shipper, which operates Great White Fleet, reported in its second quarter results that reconfiguration of its European shipping system, initiated in the third quarter of 2011, provided more than $12 million in savings.
