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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Yang Ming today sought to reassure customers and suppliers on its solvency as a global container carrier. The world’s

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Following the bankruptcy of Hanjin, Taiwan’s Yang Ming is now the container line in the greatest financial danger,

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – 2017 will be the year that China-Europe rail services shift supply chain patterns. As the first train from China rolled

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – CMA CGM and China Cosco are the two most likely carriers to buy OOCL, should its main shareholders decide to sell the

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Singapore’s terminal operator PSA today reported that it handled 67.63m teu across both its international network

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Containerships sailing from Asia to North Europe are running “full to the gunnels” ahead of the Chinese New Year

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – K Line has filed a lawsuit against Singapore-based APL Logistics, claiming its employees had wrongly suggested the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The next industry casualty of the Hanjin collapse may not be a carrier, but a major non-operating containership owner.

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Two hundred and one containerships and just under 700,000 container slots have been scrapped this year. According to

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Six months after the implementation of verified gross mass (VGM) requirements, traditional anxieties in the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – News that their cargo may be loaded onto Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) vessels has angered customers of the 2M Alliance.

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Cyber crime is likely to delay the introduction of autonomous ships for several years – and it could pose a

By Alex Lennane in Dubai (The Loadstar) – The next big losers in the shipping industry crisis are likely to be ports and terminals, leading to a decline

By Mike Wackett  (The Loadstar) – Three months after the collapse of Hanjin Shipping, hundreds of shippers have still not received their cargo, even

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – In the wake of the Hanjin bankruptcy, THE Alliance has devised a “catastrophic instrument” funding mechanism, to be

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) Dockworkers are planning a “noisy and active” protest outside the Aarhus headquarters of Europe’s largest

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Shipping circles in Hamburg are abuzz with speculation that the Oetker family will announce this week that it intends to

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) The Asia-Mediterranean trade is still “over-tonnaged”, with headhaul ship utilisation below other major east–west markets,

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Troubled non-operating container shipowner Rickmers Maritime Trust today denied it had scrapped a seven-year-old

By Mike Wackett  (The Loadstar) – Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) may have to settle for a slot exchange agreement with 2M partners Maersk Line and