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New hull design on a 13,800 TEU ship. The ships will operate at typical speeds between 15 and 19.5 knots, with a maximum of about 23 knots, and propulsive power will be about 16 percent lower than with an initial hull design optimised for only one speed and draught condition. A new hull design will [...] 
The Department of Defense is increasingly shipping war supplies on commercial lines. Maersk Line, a unit of Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, has won a contract worth up to $2.1 billion for international shipping of U.S. military cargo, the Defense Department said on Monday. American President Lines Ltd, part of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines Group, won [...] The Los Angeles Harbor Commission certified the final environmental impact report and approved the proposed expansion of the port’s APL terminal operated by long-time tenant Eagle Marine Services. Due to begin in late 2012, the $196 million redevelopment project at the facility, commonly known as Pier 300, will add a further 1,250 feet of new [...] A shipping alliance will begin calling on the Port of Charleston in June, linking the port to countries in Asia and North Africa, the S.C. State Ports Authority announced recently. For the new service, the New World Alliance and Evergreen will call weekly on Charleston, the last port of call for the outbound service. The [...] Cargo ships sporting the MOL logo will soon be passing through the Port of Seattle for the first time since 2008, as the New World Alliance starts a new route through Seattle on May 21. The new MOL route, which will sail from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C., and then on to Tokyo and China, should [...]
The Department of Defense is increasingly shipping war supplies on commercial lines. Since 2001, companies such as Maersk and Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. (NOL) have been awarded at least $11.5 billion in defense contracts and have handled more than 90 percent of all military cargo to and from Iraq and Afghanistan. Beaumont, Texas, is [...] Container shipping lines in the Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement have announced further rate hikes for dry and reefer cargoes to boost revenues on U.S.–Asia lanes. The WTSA is recommending a dry container rate boost ofUS$50 per 40-foot container (FEU) from the Pacific Southwest ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland from May 15. From [...] Six leading container shipping lines have agreed to create one of the largest vessel networks in the Far East-to-Europe trade lane. The new G6 Alliance will create one of the leading networks in the Far East-to-Europe and Far East-to-Mediterranean container shipping markets with more than 90 ships in nine services calling at more than 40 [...] APL Terminals on Friday unveiled plans to expand operations by 56 acres at the Port of Los Angeles. Plans call for building 1,250 feet of new wharf, 41 additional acres of backland and up to 12 new container cranes that will increase the amount of cargo processing at the APL terminal, which currently operates [...] The Oakland Tribune has detailed the safety procedures that longshore workers fought for to protect workers and the community from potentially explosive containers that were serviced in Vietnam with counterfeit coolant: A handful of clerks from ILWU Local 34 and two mechanics have been working practically nonstop inside a second-floor room at the Pacific Marine [...] The ILWU at the Port of Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, Alaska, refused to transport any Maersk reefers until Horizon provided maintenance records for the containers. So far they have identified and isolated approximately 60 at-risk containers in Unalaska and Akutan. The Horizon Lines cargo terminal in Unalaska [Port of Dutch Harbor] shutdown Sunday over [...] APL and Hamburg Sud will cooperate in a vessel-sharing agreement linking the West Coast of South America with Central American ports and connecting with the carriers’ linehaul services. The service’s port rotation will be Balboa, Panama; Paita, Peru; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Balboa; Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala; Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico; La Union, El Salvador; Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica; [...] A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s biggest container shipping line, and 14 other carriers will seek a peak-season surcharge two months later than previously scheduled amid weaker-than-expected demand. The shipping lines will ask customers to pay an additional fee for cargo to the U.S. from Asia, the 15-member Transpacific Stabilization Agreement said in an [...] China's Port of Ningbo is among those whose service is reduced due to the economy and fuel costs. More shipping lanes have cut services between Asia and the US, potentially pushing up costs for those using existing services. Recently MSC, Maersk Line and CMA CGM announced they would not provide their annual Jaguar service [...] Ocean carriers in the New World Alliance will suspend a trans-Pacific service this month due to slowing demand for retail merchandise and reductions in inventory replenishment in the U.S. Alliance members Hyundai Merchant Marine, APL and MOL will remove one weekly string of vessels, each averaging 3,960 TEUs, in the Pacific Southwest service. The lines term the [...] |
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