The Loadstar

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

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – CMA CGM reported a $268m net loss in the third quarter, despite efforts to focus on higher-paying cargo, bringing the

By Alexander Whiteman in Rotterdam (The Loadstar) – Repositioning empty containers costs the shipping industry $15-$20bn a year – up to 8% of a

By Alex Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Leading engine manufacturer Wärtsilä has disputed claims that using LNG (liquefied natural gas) would result in zero

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line’s 11 second generation Triple-E class vessels, due to be delivered from April next year through to May

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar). – THE Alliance – Hapag-Lloyd, K Line, MOL, NYK and Yang Ming – have announced their pro-forma east-west tradelane

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The Ocean Alliance, which next April will be the biggest of the three vessel-sharing alliances, has published its

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line remained in the red in the third quarter, today reporting a net loss of $116m on the back of a 16%

By Sam Whelan (TheLoadstar) After the supply chain havoc caused by Hanjin Shipping’s collapse, and with an alliance reshuffle on the horizon, should

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The four remaining members of the CKYHE alliance are the biggest losers in the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy, in terms of

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Zim Integrated Shipping Services recorded a $74m net loss in the second quarter of the year. This compares with a $23m

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