Container Shipping

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – In the clearest sign yet that the lingering effects of the 2009 global financial crisis on the shipping industry

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Less than a week after Taiwanese container line Yang Ming reported its first net profit in 10 quarters, media today

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Nine 22,000 teu vessels on order for CMA CGM and 11 22,000 teu ships for MSC could end up with capacity of 23,500

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line reported a net profit of $220m in the third quarter, compared with a loss of $122m in Q3 16, but there

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch has launched an investigation into the loss of dozens of containers from a British containership off Japan. The

Danish shipping giant Maersk says it has set a new world record for the most cargo handled in a single port call with the MV Maersk Evora’s recent

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The Asia-North Europe trade will be almost entirely operated by ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) during the

One of the world’s largest containerships docked at the EUROGATE Container Terminal in Wilhelmshaven, Germany on Monday during its maiden voyage from

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – After eight consecutive weeks of declining spot freight rates on the headhaul legs between China and the US, the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Container spot rates from Asia to North Europe slumped below $700 per teu this week, losing a further 3.9% in

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Owners of smaller containerships, with limited exposure to the volatile deepsea east-west trades, are enjoying increases

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Predictions that the current crop of disruptive digital start-ups will revolutionize container shipping has been

French shipping company CMA CGM has announced an agreement to acquire a majority stake in SOFRANA Unilines, one of the key players in the South Pacific

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Hapag-Lloyd has taken delivery of the last of 17 ULCVs ordered by UASC in 2013 as “some of the greenest and largest

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Recent forecasts from ocean carriers that a supply-demand equilibrium will be reached next year are “optimistic”,

On the heels of CMA CGM’s order for nine record-breaking 22,000 TEU containerships, Mediterranean Shipping Company has confirmed it has placed its own

French shipping company CMA CGM has signed shipbuilding contracts for its nine 22,000 TEU Ultra Large Container Vessels (ULCVs) with state-run China State

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) has warned that Solas firefighting regulations for container vessels

By Yu-Huay Sun and Richard Frost (Bloomberg) — A Taiwanese shipping company is enduring the sharpest swing in fortunes among Asian shares.

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) yesterday approved THE Alliance’s plan for a $50m contingency fund in case one of