The Loadstar

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – South Korean carrier Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) is to join THE Alliance when its slot charter agreement with the 2M

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Today’s opening of a new container terminal at the Moroccan hub of Tangiers is likely to bring relief to a West

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – MSC has signed a new contract with Cargotec’s MacGregor to upgrade the container intake on six 16,000 teu vessels to

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Carriers are failing to tackle greenhouse gases (GHGs) and sufficiently invest in the new technologies required to

By Gavin van Marle in Rotterdam (The Loadstar) – The first common digital standards for the container shipping industry are expected to be proposed this

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The path to complying with the IMO’s 0.5% sulphur cap regulations on bunker fuel in six months’ time will be

By Gavin van Marle in Rotterdam (The Loadstar) – Shipper opposition to deepsea liner shipping alliances may be dangerously misplaced, delegates at the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The bunker market is far from ready for the substantial switch in demand to low-sulphur fuel, when the IMO’s 0.5% cap

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – It seems the ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) that have become the ‘new normal’ on the Asia-Europe tradelane

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Shipping must pay the price today for tomorrow’s sustainability as a push to cleaner supply chains is seeing

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – With the second quarter now two-thirds done ocean carriers look to be heading for a second successive H1 loss, making a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Around 16% of the ocean carrier global fleet – equating to 36% in terms of teu capacity – will be equipped with

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – A blanked sailing from the 2M+HMM grouping on the transpacific this week failed to halt the further erosion of

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Alphaliner has slashed its global container throughput growth estimate for this year to just 2.5% from 3.6%. A weak

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The 74th sitting of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) ended on Friday without agreement of any

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The owner of the fire-stricken Yantian Express said the vessel would depart its refuge at Bahamas Freeport on

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Drewry has urged containership owners planning to scrap older vessels this year to “get a move on”. The number of

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Japanese merged carrier Ocean Network Express (ONE) recorded a net loss of $586m in its first year of operation,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The multipurpose vessel (MPV) and heavylift shipping sector is set for 3.8% growth this year, declining to 1.4% in 2020,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – US west coast ports suffered most from a “tariff hangover” effect in 2019’s first three months, said Drewry