In August 1992, the company started to load and unload cargo at the ports of Long Beach and Seattle with the joint venture Total Terminals International LLC.

[2] Cho Soo-ho died from lung cancer in 2006 and his widow, Choi Eun-young, became the chairwoman of Hanjin Shipping in the following year.

[8] On 2 September 2016, Hanjin Shipping filed papers in U.S. Bankruptcy court in Newark that allowed its vessels to dock without getting confiscated by creditors.

[15] Hanjin collapsed at an especially inconvenient time for retailers furnishing their inventories with imported items in preparation for a seasonal uptick in Thanksgiving, Christmas, Black Friday, and New Year's sales.

[16] Hanjin shipping formerly operated some 60 liner and tramper services around the globe, transporting over 100 million tons of cargo annually.

Hanjin Shipping had its own subsidiaries dedicated to ocean transportation and terminal operation and it had several branch offices in various countries.

Hanjin-Senator once was the seventh largest container transportation and shipping company in the world (operations ceased February 2009).