The Loadstar

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

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) DP World’s planned acquisition of European shortsea container line Unifeeder took the industry by surprise when the deal was

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – The port of Hamburg is continuing to lose ground to its North European container competitors, with another

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Just halfway through the Q2 reporting period, some $650m of red ink has been reported by ocean carriers to add to their

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Alphaliner’s bellwether containership idle tonnage data has recorded a big spike in vessels being consigned to

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Orient Overseas International (OOIL) suffered a loss of $73m in its OOCL container business in the first six months

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Non-operating owners of ageing gas-guzzling small containerships are likely to renew their interest in scrapping as the

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – “Cautious investor sentiment towards greenfield container terminal projects” could lead to steeply

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – A steel cutting ceremony took place in China last week on the hulls of the first two ships of CMA CGM’s order for

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Ocean Network Express (ONE) recorded losses of $120m in its inaugural trading quarter, blaming its “clumsy”