According to Drewry’s recently published 2014 Container Census report, high-cube, 40-foot containers, which it said will represent nearly 50 percent of the fleet, are cutting into the market for […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission has started an investigation into the global rice trade. The investigation, “Rice: Global Competitiveness of the U.S. Industry,” was requested by the House […]
Hong Kong will permit the import of the full range of U.S. beef and beef products, consistent with access prior to the end of 2003. Previously, only deboned beef […]
President Barack Obama has designated Meredith M. Broadbent, a Republican from Virginia, as chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission for the term June 17, 2014 to June 16, […]
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce will not approve the proposed P3 Network between Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM, scuttling the effort by the three carriers to […]
HMM, Korea’s second largest carrier after Hanjin, will sell 6.81 million convertible preferred shares worth 57 billion won to Market Vantage Ltd. and make a similar sale to Market […]
The U.S. agriculture secretary will discuss the expansion of agricultural trade between the two continents, the importance of agriculture’s role in the T-TIP, and benefits the trade agreement will have […]
Myles J. Ambrose, who served as a head of the U.S. Customs in the early 1970s and later specialized as a private practice customs and international trade attorney in Washington, […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has appointed David P. Higgerson to the director of its Laredo, Texas, field office. He was formerly director of the agency’s El Paso, […]
The Agriculture Transportation Coalition has urged the ILWU and employers to “take action to keep U.S. West Coast ports (and the cargo that is dependent upon them) viable.”
The U.S. Maritime Administration is accepting applications until Sept. 30, 2016 for future marine highway projects. “Eligible projects should establish new or enhance existing marine highway services that […]
The U.S. Department of Commerce will continue its investigations on imports of the containers, with its preliminary countervailing duty determination due on or about July 17.
FMC reviews 35 OTI license applications
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 35 ocean transportation intermediary license applications and changes for review. The FMC received non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from Cirrus International, […]
The Federal Maritime Commission said it will hold a meeting on June 18 where it will be briefed by “U.S. harbor trucking representatives on trucking trends and conditions” in […]
It was the biggest news in the container shipping business for a year. The world’s three largest container shipping companies — Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM […]
The peril of not declaring the value of cargo in a bill of lading was illustrated in a recent court decision (Outokumpu Stainless USA v. M/V Vegaland. et al. […]
The P3 Network was an interesting concept, although unsettling to many shippers when first announced by the three largest liner carriers – Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA […]
“We don’t want to see disruptions at the ports, but retailers are making sure they are prepared in case that happens,” NRF Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs […]
Concerned about a possible strike at West Coast ports as the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and employers negotiate a new contract to replace their labor agreement that expires […]
SeaIntel said schedule integrity by global container carriers “continues to improve, but is still significantly below last year’s performance.” The consultant said global schedule reliability increased for the […]
The maritime law firm Chalos O’Connor LLP is closing, and its attorneys are moving to larger law firms. K&L Gates announced last week that Michael G. Chalos has […]
The European Commission is allowing the P3 Network and G6 shipping alliances to move forward. In a statement, Antoine Colombani, a spokesman for the Commission’s Competition Directorate said, […]
Jorge L. Quijano, chief executive officer of the Panama Canal Authority, said naval architects have created optimized designs that will allow ships carrying 14,000 TEUs to transit the new set of […]
The country applied for WTO membership in April 2000. Trade ministers of WTO members officially approved Yemen’s accession on Dec. 4, 2013, during the Ninth Ministerial Conference in Bali, Indonesia.
The vessel-sharing alliance has filed a discussion agreement with the Federal Maritime Commission that will allow them to discuss and determine whether to cooperate on trade lanes to and […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday released a report forecasting that the country’s agricultural exports will reach $149.5 billion, an estimated $6.9 billion higher than previous estimates and […]
Danmarks Skibskredit (Danish Ship Finance) says in its most recent Shipping Market Review that there continues to be a “massive” surplus in the supply of containerships, particularly large vessels. […]
Suttons Group, a U.K.-based chemical logistics services firm, has entered a partnership with Mexican freight forwarder ROVESA. The partnership will provide a range of logistics and supply chain […]
The World Trade Organization on Friday sided with the United States in a major case against China for unfair trade practices against imports of U.S. automobiles. A WTO […]
North American supply chains will be strongly affected over the next three months by the negotiations for a new contract between the ILWU and employers, said Noël Perry, managing […]
Carrier Transicold has introduced a new anti-tamper refrigerant seal system to offer a higher level of refrigerant integrity and traceability for container refrigeration systems. The company said the […]
The U.S. Justice Department said Jordan-based Arab Ship Management Ltd. pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Wilmington, Del., to one count of violating the Act to Prevent Pollution […]
Vilsack U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has cited recent improvements to expanding Mexico’s consumer market to American agricultural products. Mexico’s expanded import ruling to allow increased potato imports […]
The Maritime Safety Committee of the IMO on Monday approved changes to the Safety of Life at Sea convention that will require verification of container weights as a condition […]
The United States signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement last week with Uruguay. The bilateral agreement helps the U.S. and Uruguay’s respective customs administrations to prevent and investigate […]
With two years into the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, the White House reported that U.S. manufacturers have substantially increased exports of transportation equipment, petroleum and coal products, processed food, […]
A congressional watchdog agency warned that weaknesses in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) export control policy and implementation of foreign national access procedures at some centers increase […]
After a five-year absence, a new company has begun ferry service between Portland, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The 528-foot long roll-on, roll-off passenger (ropax) ferry Nova Star […]
The U.S. Commerce Department this week initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into imports of 53-foot domestic dry containers from China. Dumping occurs when a foreign company sells […]
Chiquita plans to ship 60,000 TEUs to 70,000 TEUs of cargo per year via New Orleans, generating a 15-percent increase in container volumes at the Louisiana port. Chiquita’s ships […]
NOL Group, the parent company of the container shipping company APL and APL Logistics, said it had a loss of $98 million in the first quarter, compared to a […]
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security on Tuesday published regulations that will change the way U.S. export controls are applied to most commercial, scientific, and civil […]
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 49 license applications and changes for review. The FMC received non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from AC Shipping, Newark, N.J. (Alexander […]
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has received 49 ocean transportation intermediary license applications and changes for review. The FMC received non-vessel-operating common carrier license applications from ABF Global Supply […]
Hapag-Lloyd reported a loss in the first quarter of 119.1 million euros ($163.4 million) compared with a loss of 93.6 million euros in the first quarter of 2013, and […]
Liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. will consolidate its activities at the Port of Antwerp’s Deurganck dock on the left bank of the Scheldt river. The Antwerp Port Authority said […]
BlueGrace Logistics, which operates on a franchise model, is making a push to expand in the New York market. The process for obtaining a franchise with the company […]
“The company does not rule out the possibility of deepening cooperation agreements with other players in order to achieve greater stability, both in fleet and in service coverage,” CCNI’s […]
U.S. steel exports experienced a significant rebound in March, though they remained below the levels of a year earlier, according to U.S. government data analyzed by the American Institute […]
The U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday determined that there’s a “reasonable indication” that a U.S. industry is harmed by sugar imports from Mexico that are allegedly subsidized and […]
“Lake Superior’s ice was so challenging that the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards had to convoy freighters the entire month,” the Lake Carriers’ Association said, noting that vessels couldn’t […]
The much-anticipated negotiations on a new contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and their employers at 29 West Coast ports, represented by the Pacific Maritime Association, started Monday.
Latin America’s growth is attractive, but carriers to the region face potential for overcapacity. In January, U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the government’s “Look South” Initiative focused on […]
While not the sole cause, lack of adequate infrastructure to keep up with the rapid growth in container traffic in Latin America is one of the contributing factors to […]
As representatives of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association negotiate a new labor contract to replace the one that expires July 1, shippers say they […]
Is an offshore drilling rig — a vessel so large that it cannot pass through the Panama Canal — “merchandise” subject to the Jones Act’s restriction that cargo transported […]
The Kuwait-based logistics and infrastructure company Agility said it had a net profit of 11.24 million Kuwaiti dinar ($40 million) in the first quarter of 2014, 11 percent more […]
London-based Drewry has created a product that it says will allow shippers to share information about trends in contract shipping costs.
LNG container ships are coming to the European short sea trades. The Finnish short sea operator Containerships Ltd Oy, GNS Shipping/Nordic Hamburg, and ARKON Shipping said Wednesday they […]
The governors of New York and New Jersey have created a panel to “review the operations and procedures of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a change to the regulations for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program that it says expands the range of projects […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s undersecretary for farm and foreign agricultural services, Michael Scuse, and a group of representatives from 28 trade associations and companies are in northeast China […]
The logistics security services firm FreightWatch International said in the first quarter of 2014, it recorded 206 full-truckload cargo theft incidents in the United States, with 82 thefts in […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service will start accepting claims from domestic manufacturers citing economic harm caused to them by tariffs on cotton fabric that are higher […]
A safety feature that has been incorporated into the 70-acre expansion of the Global Container Terminal in Jersey City/Bayonne has set off a disagreement between the International Longshoremen’s Association […]
Maersk Lines said that it will begin imposing a peak-season surcharge June 1 on cargo moving through the East Coast Canadian ports of Montreal and Halifax. Officials said […]
Non-vessel-operating common carrier Ecu-Line has opened a new branch office in Fremantle, Australia. The port of Fremantle services the capital city of Perth and the entire state of […]
With negotiations on a new labor agreement between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and employers represented by the Pacific Maritime Association due to start on May 12, the […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seeking to fill 2,000 additional officer positions at air, land and sea ports across the country. “As a result of funding provided […]
The rating agency Moody’s said it has revised its outlook for the global shipping industry to stable from negative, reflecting its expectation that the shipping industry’s aggregate (EBITDA) will […]
A pathologist in the Seychelles has concluded that the two security guards found dead on February 18 aboard the Maersk Alabama while it was docked in Port Victoria died […]
The U.S. Commerce Department has added eight Chinese companies and one Chinese individual to its Entity List for their roles in supplying Iran’s ballistic missile program through the Chinese […]
As part of a series of sanctions, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has expanded its export restrictions on items subject to the Export Administration Regulations in […]
The United States on Friday said the dispute settlement process in the 2011 labor enforcement case brought under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement will not be […]
Twenty U.S. firms will join Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker on a trade mission to West Africa, which will visit Ghana and Nigeria from May 18-23, 2014. The trip […]
Reuters is reporting that Neovia Logistics, formerly Caterpillar Logistic Services, is exploring a sale “that could value the company at more than $1 billion.” Reuters cites “people familiar […]
A surplus of Panamax-sized containerships, already a creating problems for liner companies in the North-South trades where they are helping drive down rates, is likely to get worse when […]
As they negotiate a new labor contract to replace the one that expires July 1, representatives of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association should be […]
A Pennsylvania company and its chief executive officer were charged by the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to evade export reporting requirements and attempting to smuggle […]
McAuliffe The governor of Virginia said APM Terminals is hoping to sell its state-of-the-art container terminal in Portsmouth and that talks will begin soon, according to an article in […]
The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday it will initiate an investigation into a U.S. sugar producers’ anti-dumping and countervailing duty petition against Mexico. The petition was filed with […]
The China Shippers Association is maintaining its opposition to the P3 Network a month after the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission chose not to block plans by Maersk, MSC and […]
A new type of shipping container called the PASSBOX, is being marketed by Portare Systems for transporting aggregate and other sorts of bulk commodities including frac sand, grain and […]
Federal and local government officials, including Chip Jaenichen, the acting administrator of the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd), Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo, Sen. Tom Ada and port representatives participated in […]
Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd and Chile’s Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) signed a binding contract Wednesday to merge CSAV’s entire container business with Hapag-Lloyd. The relevant corporate bodies of […]
The Global Shippers’ Forum said it will organize a new global campaign “to confront the imposition of unsubstantiated shipping surcharges, terminal charges and more than 20 other non-negotiable local […]
Air quality regulators in Southern California have proposed a rule that they say would “ensure emission reductions associated with sources operating in commercial marine ports” are achieved this year […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
California’s Port of Hueneme has conducted its first operational and safety vessel test of its recently installed grid-based shore-power system. The first vessel to test the new plug-in system was […]
MOL (America) said it will stop supplying chassis for store-door moves (where a container is delivered to a consignee or shipper’s place of business rather than a marine terminal) […]
The Lake Carriers’ Association, which represents 17 American companies that operate 57 U.S.-flag vessels on the Great Lakes ice, said only three coal cargos were loaded so far this […]
The American Institute for International Steel reported shrinking steel exports in February over January, especially for the NAFTA region, which represents about three-quarters of total U.S. steel exports. […]
OOO “Garant-S” sued Empire United Lines and Michael Hitrinov, its president and owner, for losses arising from a third-party theft of Garant’s automobiles.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission made the right call in late March not to block the P3 Network, which Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM plan to […]
MarAd’s acting chief says “cargo will create a demand for ships, and ships create a demand for mariners.” A year after taking charge of the U.S. Maritime Administration, […]
