#Ships

Forecast Warns Link Between Container Traffic and Global Economic Growth Could Decline in Recovery

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – As economies continue to rebound, global container trade is expected to grow by 5.8% this year, according to a...

Containership Time-Charters Break New Records

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Four-year-plus charter deals are becoming the norm as shipowners ratchet up the pressure on liner companies. As t...

Another New Normal as Container Rollover Rates Increase

The number of container rollovers at major box ports continued to climb last month, affecting some 39% of all shipments, according to new data from supply chain visi...

Efforts to dislodge stranded Suez Canal container ship intensify as backlog grows

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) Efforts to dislodge the huge container ship stuck in the Suez Canal intensified Saturday as the backlog of ships at either end of the crucial wate...

L.A.’s latest traffic jam: Dozens of container ships waiting to be unloaded

On a typical morning — before the pandemic — if you’d looked out across the Pacific from San Pedro, the southernmost part of Los Angeles, you might...

Gantry crane contacted by container ship, collapsed

Container ship MOUNT CAMERON contacted gantry crane at Pier 2 of Chittagong Container Terminal in the afternoon Aug 20, while maneuvering to berth at Pier 5. Gantry...

‘Don’t over think it. Shipping is simple’

Fifteen years into his career, Charlie Du Cane, commercial director at Mandarin Shipping, has just been provided with valuable advice while chewing over matters ad i...

Fighting Shipping Pollution Is Bad For the Planet

Cleaner marine fuels with less sulfur will cut premature deaths and morbidity, but reduce the ability of clouds to reflect heat. Ships will have to burn cl...