The Loadstar

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Tomorrow the IMO’s three-month so-called “light touch” enforcement of the SOLAS revision that all packed

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The 4,546 teu 2006-built Viktoria Wulff (ex MSC Firenze) has become the youngest containership to be sold for scrap as

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The container market has been “turned on its head” by the collapse of Hanjin Shipping, according to Oslo-based ocean

By Gavin van Marle (TheLoadstar) Unloading operations have begun on some Hanjin vessels after the line finally began to update shippers and forwarders on

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Perhaps what is most striking about this timeline is that news of Hanjin’s financial troubles publicly surfaced in

Alex Lennane (TheLoadstar) The air freight industry appears to have missed a boost to business from the collapse of container line Hanjin, after

By Gavin van Marle (TheLoadstar) Shipper organizations have called for terminals to begin releasing Hanjin containers detained by terminal

  By Gavin van Marle (TheLoadstar) Cross-Channel operations between Dover and Calais were set to descend into chaos today as French truck

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) Captains on bankrupt Hanjin Shipping vessels have been ordered to slow steam or stop altogether to avoid the risk of being served

By Gavin van Marle, (The Loadstar) – The largest bankruptcy ever to take place in container shipping now appears inevitable after the board of Hanjin

By Mike Wacket (TheLoadstar) It might not be easy for one of the new mega east-west vessel-sharing alliances to appease the regulators. The

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Hanjin Shipping today submitted a “financial improvement plan” to its creditor banks in a final attempt to avoid

(TheLoadstar) One of the world’s largest boxships is being inspected for any damages following a brief grounding incident in the UK yesterday. The

By Alessandro Pasetti (TheLoadstar) The interim results of Hapag-Lloyd were uninspiring, to say the least. Not only is the world’s

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) DP World has reported robust first-half results from its global portfolio of container terminals, saying despite the challenging

  By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) The number of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) of 14,000-19,000 teu calling at the port of

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadStar) Container lines are enduring a “severe revenue contraction”, said Drewry, after the first six-month turnover figures reported

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) Maersk Line plunged $151m into the red in the second quarter dragging down its half-year results to a net loss of $114m,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line is upgrading its eight E-class 15,550 teu vessels to load a further 1,300 teu. Raising the accommodation

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) — As ocean carriers reel from a disastrous first half this year, they seem to have lost lost their appetite for ordering