The reopening of the US and European economies after last year’s COVID-19 lockdowns spurred a resurgence in the trans-Atlantic container trade as business activity in two of the world’s largest economies showed better than expected growth in May, with increases concentrated at US ports that have undergone major expansions.
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03 Aug 2020
Aggressive capacity management in response to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and escalating tariffs has helped the top 10 container carriers operating in the Europe–US trade increase their share of the market so far in 2020.
20 Feb 2020
Halifax and the ports of Montreal and Vancouver have endured cargo backlogs at marine terminals and disruption to domestic and international shipments.
23 May 2017
The Swedish government is coming under increasing pressure to intervene in the year-long industrial dispute at APM Terminals Gothenburg.
12 May 2017
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.
22 Aug 2016
ACL expects its new ships to provide an edge.
11 Mar 2016
Atlantic Container Line will maintain its twice-weekly service at the Port of Halifax with ACL’s new G4 container/roll-on, roll-off ships, under a new contract that runs through 2022.
08 Jan 2016
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.
30 Oct 2015
Atlantic Container Line has taken delivery of the first of five new container/roll-on, roll-off ships that are the largest of their type ever built and that will expand ACL’s unique trans-Atlantic niche.
18 Jun 2015
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.
09 Apr 2015
Daniel J. Kerrigan, former president of Atlantic Container Lines Ltd., died at his home in South Carolina with his family on April 6. He was 90.
28 Oct 2014
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.
06 Aug 2014
The U.S. ocean container trade via European ports, including transshipments, increased 3.8 percent year-over-year to 4.6 million laden 20-foot-equivalent units in the 12 months ending March 2014, according to PIERS, the data division of JOC Group.
12 Jul 2014
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.
25 Apr 2014
Peel Ports, owner of the port of Liverpool, signed a £100 million ($168 million) contract with China’s Zhenhua Heavy Industries to supply cranes for a new deep-water quay that will triple the size of container ships the northwestern UK port can handle.
25 Apr 2013
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.
12 Dec 2012
From Feb. 1, 2013, ocean carrier ACL will no longer supply intermodal chassis for merchants haulage moves in Norfolk, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Savannah, Ga.; Atlanta; and Memphis, Tenn.
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