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Container ship
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique call...
MSC working with Suez Canal Authority to identify cause of grounding
A huge MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company container ship spent several hours aground in the Suez Canal on Sunday. Traffic was able to keep transiting the canal du...
Panama Canal Sees Falling Cargo Volumes Ahead
PANAMA CITY, March 8 (Reuters) – The amount of cargo passing through the Panama Canal is expected to shrink this fiscal year, the canal’s top authority s...
French shipping giant CMA CGM warns demand is deteriorating
French shipping giant CMA CGM SA, controlled by the billionaire Rodolphe Saade and his family, warned of a steep drop in demand so far this year, extending a slump t...
CMA CGM Sees Container Shipping Slowdown Continuing in 2023 Reuters
March 3 (Reuters) – CMA CGM expects the marked slowdown seen in the fourth quarter of 2022 to continue in the current year, the French transport and shipping g...
Australia Bans MSC Containership for 90 Days: AMSA Calls Out Operator Over Repeat Offenses
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned a Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) containership from entering Australian ports over maintenance and s...
Rumble in Long Beach: Shippers ‘Back for Blood’ as Container Shipping Contract Season Kicks Off
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb 27 (Reuters) – Collapsing ocean shipping rates are not all good news for U.S. retailers, who paid as much as $20,000 to move a containe...
Port of Vancouver Set for Big Boost in Container Handling Capacity
The Port of Vancouver is set for a big boost to its container handling capacity following a project to expand DP World’s Centerm Terminal. The Vancouver Fra...
MSC, Transworld and Sinokor sell unwanted container ships for recycling
Two years after MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company sold the container ship MSC Giovanna (built 1987) to Niki Shipping and bareboat chartered it back, the 2,098-teu v...
Startup Australian Shipping Line Goes Bust
Just three months after its launch, Australian start-up Focus Container Line has entered administration as the post-pandemic boom in containerised shipping continues...
Forwarders locked into “sky high” rates
One air cargo stakeholder is “fearful” of the rates that freight forwarders began to pay to secure capacity during the recent period of high air cargo de...
Bad News for Ocean Carriers as Contract Rates ‘Trending Towards Spot’
Maersk said last week this year’s contract rates for its liner services were “trending towards spot rates” and, in fact, a momentum that appeared t...
Uncovering the True Cost of Ocean Freight Shipping
Did you know that 1 out of every 6 Ocean invoices is incorrect? Did you know that the Ocean invoices are overbilled or incorrectly billed by hundreds of mi...
OOCL Welcomes First of Six 24,000 TEU Megaships
Hong Kong-based container shipping line Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has welcomed its first new ‘megaship’ with the naming ceremony of the OOCL...
Maersk Reports Record Results in 2022, But Dark Clouds on the Horizon are Getting Even Darker
Maersk remains steadfast on its in supply chain integration strategy as container shipping storm arrives. A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) is reporting an &ldq...
03 November 2024
‘It’s all happening again.’ The supply chain is under strain
08 November 2024
Global Freight Rises But Shows Signs of Weakness in U.S.
23 Oktober 2024
Arctic Shipping Route to See First-Ever Panamax Containership
18 Oktober 2024