A US District Court has for the second time rejected a class-action suit by shippers accusing Matson Navigation and Horizon Lines of price-fixing on lines between Guam and Hawaii and the US mainland.

FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 23.5 million TEU in 2010, an increase of 11.8 per cent from 21 million in 2009.

THE New York Shipping Association (NYSA) has the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) for more than US$5 million for damages arising from its two-day September strikes in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.

TWO ships from separate African loops recently started calling at Ningbo's Meishan Island International Container Terminal, marking the launch of the first African services from the terminal, Xinhua reported.