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Maersk Gives Overstocked Retailers the Option to Slow Arrivals
Maersk says it is offering shippers the opportunity to slow cargo arrivals from Asia destined for European and US ports to help retailers manage bloated inventories....
Another of the world's largest container ships anchors off coast
An anchorage off the Suffolk coast is continuing to welcome some of the largest container ships in the world. Shipping watchers have another large container vesse...
Spectre of boxship lay-ups returns
With multiple capacity levers deemed insufficient to halt the severe decline in container freight rates, the spectre of ship lay-ups has been raised. Rates remain...
16,000 teu CMA CGM ship makes size record in Indonesia
With Southeast Asia increasingly forecast to take a greater slice of manufacturing away from China, liner trades are upgrading their service offerings. The larges...
Are US supply chain problems over?
Snarled supply chains that helped fuel red-hot inflation are slowly disentangling, offering hope for relief for cash-strapped consumers. But the U.S. face...
PIL introduces intermodal solutions
Pacific International Lines (PIL) has introduced the PIL Intermodal Services, which offers train, truck and barge services across the company's network in Intra-...
Carrier complaints stack up at the Federal Maritime Commission
The Federal Maritime Commission is keeping busy with an increasing intro of complaints from shippers. The latest two to emerge involve Israeli carrier ZIM and Med...
Maersk-operated 5,500 TEU vessel suffers power loss in Australia waters
The 5,500 TEU boxship Rio Madeira suffered an electrical power outage causing loss of propulsion on 20 October, while it was sailing to Sydney, Australia from the po...
Maersk and MSC gear up for Abidjan terminal launch
Final preparations are underway for the operational and commercial launch of the Cote d’Ivoire container terminal (CIT) in the Port of Abidjan next month. A...
Maersk-Operated Boxship Loses Power off Australian Coast
A Maersk-operated containership was brought successfully into port in Australia after the vessel blacked out and spent more than 30 hours drifting south of Sydney. T...
06 January 2025
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