Container Shipping

By Peter R. Orszag (Bloomberg Opinion) — At the top of my most interesting reads this year was Marc Levinson’s “The Box: How the Shipping Container

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Dubai’s DP World has approached an Indian court to quash an antitrust investigation recently

Cargo volume at the Port of Long Beach continued to rise in November, setting the stage for a second consecutive calendar year record. The Port handled 621,835

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk has had its credit rating cut by ratings agency Moody’s to one grade above junk, with the agency concerned

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) – China’s largest shipping group, COSCO Shipping, is considering raising capital for the first time

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – In the last 30 days, 23 container vessels have been sold for scrap – nearly half the number sent to breakers’

By Sam Whelan, Asia correspondent (The Loadstar) – The IMO’s 0.5% sulphur cap, to be imposed in January 2020, could be a “blessing in disguise” for

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Shipping lines from each of the alliances have formed an association in a bid to develop “digitalisation,

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Top U.S. importers are stocking up on Chinese goods before new import tariffs take effect,

By Vera Eckert FRANKFURT, Nov 8 (Reuters) – German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd expects an increase in transport volumes to last for the remainder of 2018

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The EU should end the block exemption against forming consortia the liner shipping industry currently enjoys, says a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Sluggish growth, combined with the delivery of more ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) in the past month, has widened

By Gus Trompiz and Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS/ZURICH, Oct 25 (Reuters) – French shipping group CMA CGM will offer to buy out other shareholders of Ceva

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The bellwether Shanghai Container Freight Index (SCFI) did not publish on Monday, due to the national holiday in China,

FRANKFURT, Oct 8 (Reuters) – German container shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd said on Monday it is preparing customers for a mechanism to charge more for

By Daniel Moss (Bloomberg Opinion) — Give South Korean President Moon Jae-in marks for boldness. The Korean Peninsula seems an unlikely place to plant

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Seaspan, the world’s largest non-operating containership owner, has announced its first significant investment outside

By Captain George Livingstone – One of my first columns of the year was on the state of the international maritime industry, I discussed a broad

The world’s top shipping line Maersk has implemented new guidelines on the stowage of dangerous goods after a review of its safety procedures in the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – As crude oil races towards $100 a barrel, the European Shippers’ Council has called for “a market approach”