Halifax and the ports of Montreal and Vancouver have endured cargo backlogs at marine terminals and disruption to domestic and international shipments.

The vote will come just after Atlantic Container Line, a customer since the 1960s, told JOC.com that it might be forced to quit Gothenburg.

ACL expects its new ships to provide an edge.

Atlantic Container Line’s first in a series of innovative container/roll-on, roll-off ships that the carrier is deploying in its trans-Atlantic service, will call the Port of New York and New Jersey this weekend on its maiden voyage.

The U.S. Coast Guard has unveiled a new cybersecurity plan, the latest in an ongoing effort to protect U.S seaports and the commercial vessels that berth there from the rising risk of cyberattack.

Atlantic Container Line said the first of five new ships in a top-to-bottom fleet upgrade are on track to enter service next summer, followed with an additional delivery every two months until its current fleet of 1980s-era ships is replaced.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association surprised watchers by announcing a 72-hour hiatus in their negotiations so that the union could deal with unrelated talks in the Pacific Northwest, and by extending the expired coastwide contract during the suspension of negotiations.

Atlantic Container Line’s order for five multipurpose ships last August didn’t attract much attention beyond the ro-ro industry, but the impact of the vessels on ro-ro shipping will be as great as that of Maersk Line’s 18,000-TEU Triple E behemoths on container shipping.