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The French giant's decision to leave the continent and the ongoing impact of Covid-19 are prompting upheaval in Africa's goods transportation industry, reports Neil Ford African ports, like their counterparts [...]

Peter Schwarz, president and CEO of Alaska Marine Transport & Salvage Inc., is not your average 66-year-old entrepreneur. Devoted to life at sea, he has owned several vessels, two of […]

The details of the latest projects of South Africa based STHIM Maquinaria in Spain, Portugal and Mexico, are discussed.

The financial performance of CP Ships is discussed. The company is leaving behind the corporate governance failures and strategic blunders. Last year an accounting mistake forced the company to restate its results. Consequent to such restatement of financial results, the company came under insider-trading scrutiny. The management strategies adopted by the company to emerge from this crisis are mentioned.

CP Ships had been on a roll. After building a global network of container-shipping services through acquisitions, the company was riding a wave of rising industry profits. Then came a [...]

Vessel utilization factors on services between Asia and the U.S. East Coast are greater than 90 percent in both directions, but that doesn't necessarily mean much new capacity is coming [...]

In considering service contract offerings, a consistent pattern emerged recently in the line of questioning among our clients: 'Is Carrier X financially stable? Should I be doing business with them? [...]

Profit is paving the way to expansion at Old Dominion Freight Line. The less-than-truckload carrier will open four regional 'command centers' for its OD Global freight forwarding division after running [...]

One by one, the major shipping lines pushed to the brink of bankruptcy have received financial infusions enabling them to survive. Only one, CMA CGM, is still trying to climb [...]

Navigating through a storm of historic magnitude, any ship captain probably would be expected to make adjustments and even look for an entirely new course. But CMA CGM, buffeted perhaps [...]

For a company that lost more than $1 billion in 2009 and is almost certain to spend 2010 in the red, Hapag-Lloyd seems an unlikely recovery story. But as it [...]

Cosco Container Lines Americas Inc. President www.cosco-usa.com 2009 will be a year of many changes, but I think everyone in the ocean transportation industry will be watching the repeal of [...]

If the holiday season seemed uncommonly stressful at the Port of Charleston, there was good reason. EveryoneOs attention was focused on Maersk Line, which gave notice on Dec. 18 that [...]

Vice chairman and president www.wanhai.com 2007 turned out to be fabulous for the container shipping industry amid so many pessimistic views toward the industry at the beginning of the year. [...]

Principal www.hortonglobal.net A year ago, I had hoped to see efforts by ocean carriers to simplify the contracting process, especially in the area of reducing the number and titles of [...]

Chief executive, president and chairman www.horizon-lines.com The U.S. Marine Highway will come alive in 2008. Why? Fuel continues to rise. Two years ago people gagged at $80-per-barrel prices. Today they [...]

President www.hualna.com As ocean carriers, we have a joint responsibility to serve as facilitators of global trade, with the well-being of our industries and our nations' economy very much at [...]

Chairman www.hafen-hamburg.de/en/ Although some skeptics believe the financial crisis in the U.S. might end the economic upswing in Germany, I expect the German economy to grow again by around 2 [...]

Vice group chairman www.evergreen-shipping.us The U.S. trade deficit late last year fell to the lowest level in more than two years as a falling dollar spurred U.S. exports to an [...]

Chairman and chief executive www.emiratesline.com While 2007 ended in chaos on a few fronts in the global economy, I see 2008 as being overall very strong, with global demand continuing [...]

BYLIE: Frank J. Baragona President www.cma-cgm.com Overall, 2008 has the potential to be a decent year for container shipping, but there are challenges and risks that will need to be [...]

Chairman www.csav.com The first issue is a possible recession in the U.S. There is better than a 50 percent of a recession considering the subprime mortgage crisis, and the whole [...]

Cosco Container Lines Americas Inc. President www.cosco-usa.com There are a lot of important issues coming up that will definitely challenge the ocean transportation business in 2008. The two that most [...]

Chief executive www.cargosmart.com Shippers, consignees and logistics service providers have more ways than ever to electronically manage their shipment information. In 2008, we predict that electronic systems for basic shipment [...]

First vice president www.cbre.com 2007 will go down as a solid year for port-related industrial real estate markets. Speculative port facility developments have sprouted worldwide as the real estate industry [...]

Any time a big company replaces its chief executive, it's news. When two potential future CEOs also leave, it's a bigger story. When the changes occur at the world's largest [...]

As the shock waves from A.P. Moller-Maersk's management shakeup begin to subside, Maerskologists are poring over the seismic reports. Do the changes signal a disagreement over future strategy for Maersk [...]

Bob Armstrong believes that this could be the year that short-sea shipping breaks out in the Great Lakes. Armstrong is project manager for MarineLink, which proposes truck-only ferry service on [...]

Three months into 2007, we've had no shortage of transportation news. There's been the difficult birth of the TWIC card, the surge of interest in environmental issues, the change in [...]

I had the opportunity after the recent TPM conference in Long Beach to visit with a company that because of its singular name, unusual model and staying power makes it [...]

Inttra unveils Web site for carrier schedules Inttra, the ocean carrier Web portal, is extending its business in a new direction. The company has formed a subsidiary, OceanSchedules.com, a Web [...]

Senior vice president and general manager www.pomtoc.com We expect continued growth in containerized cargoes moving directly to the East Coast ports through the Panama Canal this year. Containerized cargoes from [...]

As third mate on a barge carrier, Lois Zabrocky was charged with keeping a lookout for pirates. She was on night watch as her ship passed through the Strait of [...]

Hanjin Group, South Korea's eighth-biggest industrial conglomerate by assets, said it aims to post 15.4 trillion won (US$14.7 billion) in sales from its airline and shipping units this year. For [...]