By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY, April 5 (Reuters) – Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K-Line) has pleaded guilty to criminal cartel conduct in the transport of vehicles, Australia’s competition regulator said on Thursday,...

By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda (Bloomberg) — The most-shorted stock on Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average, a shipping line, is facing rough seas again. As Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd.’s...

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – K Line has filed a lawsuit against Singapore-based APL Logistics, claiming its employees had wrongly suggested the Japanese shipping line was in danger of...

By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda (Bloomberg) — Nippon Yusen KK, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Japan’s three largest shipping companies, agreed to merge their container...

By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda (Bloomberg) — As Japan’s shipping lines struggle with losses, the chief executives of companies are facing rough seas with fewer shareholders wanting them at...

By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda (Bloomberg) — Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Japan’s third-largest shipping company, plans to halve the fleet of its smaller bulk ships, a person with knowledge...

Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., more commonly known as K-Line, has agreed to a settlement in an alleged car carrier price-fixing scheme involving more than a dozen international shipping companies,...

Japan's Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., aka K-Line, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $67.7 million criminal fine for its role in a 15-year-long price fixing conspiracy involving roll-on, roll-off cargo to and from the United States, the Department of Justice announced late last week.

Japanese shipping firm K-Line reports today the company has dug themselves out of a loss-making situation over the past quarter in their containership business unit due to a combination of...

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Japan’s third-largest shipping line by sales, has ordered a vessel fitted with an engine to cut nitrogen oxide emissions to meet stricter controls, said three people familiar with the situation.

With a 37-38 meter beam, the vessels will be the widest car carriers ever built.

(Bloomberg) — Japanese shipping lines, buffeted by a decline in freight rates, are set to get a more than $500 million boost to their earnings from a weaker yen. Nippon...

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, more commonly known as “K” Line, said Monday that it has placed an order for five eco-friendly Ultra Large Container Vessels to replace some of its...

(Bloomberg) — Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Japan’s third-biggest shipping line, delayed plans to expand its commodity-vessel fleet as a global glut saps cargo rates. “We’re slowing our expansion,” Toshiyuki Suzuki,...