Yang Ming Line, joining the liner company parade to raise pricing, will implement a general rate increase for cargo moving on its services from Asia to the United States, effective Aug. 10.

The Dai Estuary in the central coastal province of Quang Ngai was dredged last Saturday to ensure safe passage for ships.

The forthcoming signature of the Rotterdam Rules, officially called the "United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea", is provoking extensive debate (see ESPO News 15.18).

Maersk Line has announced a number of changes to its Euromed service (43G) serving Northern Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean, effective July 20.

Hebei Port Group, the world's largest bulk cargo port company in terms of throughput, was established in north China's Hebei province, Xinhua reported.

An alliance of Coscon, K-Line, Yang Ming, and Hanjin Shipping said Wednesday it will start a direct service between Vietnam and the US East Coast in the middle of August.

Shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk wants to expand its share of the intra-Asia container trades six-fold to take full advantage of a sector that is already showing signs of recovery, Thai News Service reported.

An Evergreen Marinecontainer ship, the first commercial marine vessel equipped to measure marine emissions, set sail Saturday as part of an ambitious project to measure and monitor the distribution of greenhouse gases in the Pacific Ocean, the Central News Agency reported.

Building on an initiative announced earlier this year to encourage shippers to use the the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's ExpressRail system, the agency's Board of Commissioners has approved a new incentive program to encourage shippers to transport their cargo via new rail routes.

SHEKOU Container Terminals (SCT) has started receiving ships deployed on the Korea Vietnam Express (KVXN) service jointly launched by KMTC Line and Stx Pan Ocean.