The Loadstar

By Gavin van Marle in Amsterdam (The Loadstar) – Major container ports could be facing an investment crisis that will dwarf the problems seen in liner

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Environmental lobbyists have derided “ambitious” CO2 reduction plans announced by four international shipping

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The South African Competition Commission has rejected the merger of the container divisions of NYK, MOL and K

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – There is a “high likelihood” of a new wave of M&A activity involving medium-size ocean carriers, as the gap

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – MSC is preparing contingency plans for customers’ cargo, should the three containerships it has on charter from

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Ocean carriers have this year shown themselves to be “well-skilled” in the art of capacity management, according to

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Hapag-Lloyd has become the latest container shipping line to introduce a cancellation/no-show fee, as carriers appear

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Despite a near doubling of the number of 13,000 teu-or-above vessels deployed on the transpacific Asia-US west coast

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The container businesses of K Line, MOL and NYK will operate under the tradename Ocean Network Express (ONE) from 1

  By Gavin van Marle (TheLoadStar) A dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of recently acquired APL helped French carrier CMA CGM offset a slight

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Economists have warned that trade is likely to come to a halt if the UK fails to negotiate a deal in leaving

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Container shipping lines may be finally getting the vessel overcapacity crisis under control. It was revealed today

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has calmed the waters that led it to the brink of bankruptcy with first-quarter

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Container shipping lines yesterday shrugged off accusations that bigger ships and alliances would lead to less choice

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line is wasting no time in putting its blue stamp on the executive board of soon-to-be acquired Hamburg Süd, but

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has rejected the merger of the container businesses of K Line, MOL and NYK on

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – “Organised chaos” – that’s how one carrier describes the Asia-Europe schedules of the Ocean and THE

By Gavin van Marle in Singapore (The Loadstar) – A leading shipping analyst has predicted the return of rate volatility to the world’s major trades as

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Trading in the shares of embattled Taiwanese carrier Yang Ming were suspended on the Taipei stock exchange yesterday

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) A lack of orders for smaller containerships over the past few years, with operators focused on large vessels, is