The Loadstar

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – CMA CGM Group, which includes ocean carrier APL, has raised its emergency bunker surcharge (EBS) to $100 per teu

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The EU should end the block exemption against forming consortia the liner shipping industry currently enjoys, says a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Sluggish growth, combined with the delivery of more ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) in the past month, has widened

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Mandatory speed limits could be shipping lines’ best hope of achieving the IMO’s 2030 emissions reduction

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will today decide whether to ban the carriage of high-sulphur

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Transpacific volumes handled by CMA CGM soared this year as shippers abandoned the major Japanese carriers after the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Japanese carrier Ocean Network Express (ONE) is set to see losses spiral to $600m in its first year, as it

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – OOCL plans to begin the switch to low-sulphur fuel for its fleet of around 100 container vessels during the second half

By Sam Whelan, Asia Correspondent (The Loadstar) – The US-China trade war has seemed “positive” for transpacific shipping lines, so far, with

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The bellwether Shanghai Container Freight Index (SCFI) did not publish on Monday, due to the national holiday in China,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Seaspan, the world’s largest non-operating containership owner, has announced its first significant investment outside

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – There has been insufficient mainstream publicity on the IMO’s 2020 global emissions regulation for shipping, and a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The UK’s two biggest container ports appear to have hit crisis level. UK retailers potentially face weeks of

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – As crude oil races towards $100 a barrel, the European Shippers’ Council has called for “a market approach”

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Shippers have joined forwarders in condemning Maersk’s plan for new fuel surcharges to help recover the additional

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – A perfect storm of radical capacity cuts by carriers and US president Donald Trump’s threat to hike tariffs on

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) As the IMO’s sub-committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers meets in London this week, TT Club is demanding urgent

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – North European trade growth for the year has been revised from 3.4% to 2.2%, according to August’s Global Port

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) Container spot rates on the transpacific have continued to soar as shippers scramble for space to beat 1 September US import

by Alexander Whiteman (TheLoadstar) CMA CGM heaped further misery on the port of Felixstowe this week by announcing it would withdraw one of its