By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Huge increases in freight rates last year are likely to lead to container carriers reporting record fourth-quarter

Sometime around early October, the ports in Florida, spearheaded by a reinvigorated Florida Ports Council (FPC), began strutting their stuff- encouraging cargo

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container spot rates from Asia to the US west coast spiked this week, ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday on 1

By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — Asian shipping companies are offering mega bonuses to employees amid a boom in freight rates, with China’s state-owned

Equity analysts covering maritime companies can offer detailed analytics into individual company historical performance and future prospects, but can also

Israeli containership operator ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (NYSE: ZIM) has announced new eight-year charter agreements for three 7,000 TEU containerships

Athens-based containership owner and operator Danaos Corporation (NYSE: DAC) has announced entering into new multi-year charter agreements for 11 of its vessel

By Lauren Etter and Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Ocean shipping rates are expected to stay elevated well into 2022, setting up another year of

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s record-breaking export strength continued into December, pushing the annual trade surplus to a new high and

Jan 14 (Reuters) – U.S. holiday sales in 2021 came in at a better-than-expected $886.7 billion, boosted by customers returning to stores and splurging

A.P. Moller – Maersk says preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2021 beat expectations. Revenue during the final three months of last year came

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Continued strong demand for container tonnage has resulted in many sizes now being totally ‘sold out’ and their

By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — Ships looking to avoid Covid-induced delays in China are making a beeline for Shanghai, causing growing congestion at the

By Emily Graffeo (Bloomberg) — ProShares is preparing a new ETF to exploit chaos across global supply chains even as bottlenecks show signs of easing

By Stine Jacobsen (Reuters) – Container shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk now plans to achieve net zero emissions in its business by 2040, a decade

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Volume shippers offered new long-term fixed-rate contracts by container lines are, nevertheless, still keen to keep a

A South Korean containership could be docked at the cruise terminal in Victoria, British Columbia for “several weeks” after breaking down off the

by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen (Reuters) Swiss-based container group MSC has overtaken Denmark’s Maersk as the world’s biggest shipper, the company

By Charlotte Ryan (Bloomberg) — The British International Freight Association is calling on the U.K. government to investigate the state of competition

U.S. Federal Maritime Commission issues Orders of Investigation into ONE and Wan Hai Lines By Barry Parker In the wake of 2021’s tumultuous supply chain