STX Pan Ocean is expanding its service from the existing India-China route and is launching a direct service from Thailand's Laem Chabang to India's Nhava Sheva port and Colombo in Sri Lanka, reported The Nation.

Taiwan-based ocean shipping company Yang Ming has announced a new direct service from Kasai, Japan, to Taiwan and Southeast Asia, starting Dec. 11.

All container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey will be open Friday following the Thanksgiving Day holiday, as the port continues to clear a backlog of cargo following Hurricane Sandy.

Another Israeli record broken with the arrival of the 8900 TEU container vessel MSC ARICA to the port of Haifa, as part of the Golden Gate Service

Ocean carrier Orient Overseas Container Line followed CMA CGM in announcing a rate restoration program for December and a peak-season surcharge for January in the run-up to the Chinese New Year.

The Port of New York and New Jersey is slowly returning to norma following the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy’s tidal surge on Monday night.

Rotterdam’s container traffic dipped 1.1 percent in the first nine months from a year ago but total cargo volume at Europe’s largest port grew by 1.7 percent to 332.6 million metric tons on sharply higher imports of crude oil and oil products.

Cosco Container Lines has announced adjustments to rates and surcharges in several trades.

GENEVA's Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) had said it will provide a "landbridge" service from Philadelphia to New York to connect cargo carried from Oceania on a Maersk-Hamburg Sud joint service on which MSC takes slots, reports American Shipper.

The liner carrier Zim said it is adding an extra call in Israel to the rotation of its transatlantic ZCA service from Nov. 19.