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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Despite Maersk Line’s better-than-expected $37m first-quarter net profit, Drewry today reiterated its view that ocean

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The chief executive of Hanjin Shipping, Tai Soo Suk, has written to owners of the ships it has on charter – and

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Ocean carriers CMA CGM, COSCO Container Lines, Evergreen and OOCL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – The shock waves from the collapse of a top-20 container line such as Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) could be the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – According to the latest data collated by Dynaliners, there are 37 ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) of over 18,000

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Laid-up containership capacity “remains at an alarmingly high level”, according to the latest review by Alphaliner

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has reacted to the increasing number of backhaul voyages being routed to Asia via the

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – A new survey of ship agents and brokers has discovered that nearly 20% of countries signed up to IMO international

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – If losses continue and ocean carriers persist in focusing only on reducing costs rather than improving revenue per teu,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Following Korean carrier Hanjin offering express container shipping services on two major tradelanes, industry analyst

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The continuing low levels of the waters of Gatun Lake in Panama could pose a long-term challenge for the country’s

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Creditors of Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) today rejected a rescheduling of the troubled shipping company’s debt,

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Idled global container capacity has reached a record high of 1.57m teu, according to the latest data from Alphaliner.

By Gavin van Marle, (The Loadstar) – Project logistics and out-of-gauge cargo are the latest specialist shipping targets of container lines looking for

  By Alex Lennane, TheLoadStar – The US Coast Guard (USCG), which this week added further confusion to the soon-to-be enforced SOLAS

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – CMA CGM has confirmed that from the end of May it will redeploy its flagship fleet of 18,000 teu ships on the “most

By Mike Wackett, Ocean carriers cancelled some 230 sailings in 2015 between Asia and North Europe to boost vessel utilisation levels, and, according to Drewry,

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The Panama and Suez canals could be the next institutions to be affected by the ongoing crisis in the container

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Newly-merged Chinese ocean carriers Cosco and CSCL, together with Evergreen, OOCL and CMA CGM are set to form a new

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – DP World’s two UK container terminals at London Gateway and Southampton are to offer shippers container weighing