Container Shipping

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – United Arab Shipping Company is resuming business with Iran following the lifting of Western sanctions,

By Christian Wienberg and Jonathan Ferro (Bloomberg) — Container volumes have picked up this year after the market suffered from sluggish growth and

By Yu-Huay Sun (Bloomberg) — Chang Yung-fa, the billionaire founder of Evergreen Group who turned a second-hand bulk carrier into Asia’s biggest

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – According to shipbroker Braemar ACM, as at the beginning of this week six container vessels, equating to 14,000 teu, had

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The seemingly never-ending quest by ocean carriers to operate bigger ships was a significant spur for orders for 60

(Drewry) – Further widening of the supply-demand imbalance at the trade route level and insufficient measures to reduce ship capacity will lead to an

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – The world’s second biggest container shipping line, MSC, has become the latest firm to resume direct

ABU DHABI, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Container volumes rose by 32 percent at Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa Port in 2015 buoyed by industrial and infrastructure

On December 21, 2015, Mediterranean Shipping Company’s Ultra-Large Containership (ULCS) MSC Maya called at APM Terminals Gothenburg, becoming

Delivered in October, the Atlantic Star is the first of five new ‘G4’ ro-ro/containerships (ConRo) for Atlantic Container Line (ACL)

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” This seems to aptly sum up the two halves of 2015 for container lines, which began the year with

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Peel Ports, one of Britain’s largest port operators, expects to withstand the container shipping slump

(Ship and Bunker) — Alongside news that the CMA CGM S.A. (CMA CGM) 18,000 TEU Benjamin Franklin will become the largest containership to call at any U.S.

United Arab Shipping Company says its M.V. Al Muraykh, one of the world’s greenest containerships, has loaded a world record 18,601 TEUs. UASC says the

COPENHAGEN, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe dropped 50.4 percent to $275 per

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadStar) Since the launch of its vessel upgrade programme in 2011, with the conversion of 17 of its S Class 8,200 teu ships to 9,600

By San Whelan & Gavin van Marle (TheLoadstar) LONDON – The imminent enforcement of mandatory container weight verification is causing widespread

The world’s idle containership fleet swelled to 238 vessels and topped 900,000 TEU in November as owners rapidly lay up containerships as the

PARIS, Nov 20 (Reuters) – France’s CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container shipping firm, said freight rates should recover next year

COPENHAGEN, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe plunged by 27.9 percent to $295