Container Shipping

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Hapag-Lloyd has become the latest container shipping line to introduce a cancellation/no-show fee, as carriers appear

LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – Maersk, the world’s biggest container shipping line, can no longer transport goods in or out of Qatar after Arab

By Chris Cooper and Kiyotaka Matsuda (Bloomberg) — The most-shorted stock on Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average, a shipping line, is facing rough seas

FRANKFURT, May 31 (Reuters) – German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd confirmed on Wednesday that it is looking to cut up to 12 percent of its almost 11,000

ABIDJAN, May 30 (Reuters) – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has signed a 35-year concession agreement with Ivory Coast’s second port of San

FRANKFURT, May 29 (Reuters) – Shareholders of German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd on Monday approved a $400 million rights issue to fund a planned merger

FRANKFURT, May 24 (Reuters) – Hapag-Lloyd and Arab sector peer UASC are focused on speedy integration, Hapag’s chief executive said after the

By Jonathan Saul and Tom Arnold LONDON/DUBAI, May 23 (Reuters) – Gulf-based bidders have emerged for the part-owned subsidiary of United Arab Shipping

  By Gavin van Marle (TheLoadStar) A dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of recently acquired APL helped French carrier CMA CGM offset a slight

PARIS, May 19 (Reuters) – Container shipping line CMA CGM posted higher first-quarter profits, helped by a turnaround at recently acquired NOL, and gave

By Jonathan Saul and Arno Schuetze LONDON/FRANKFURT, May 18 (Reuters) – German shipping line Hapag Lloyd is close to completing a merger with United Arab

The MOL Triumph, one of the world’s biggest ships, docked at the port of Hamburg on Monday marking the arrival of the first 20,000 TEU

The 13,000 TEU containership COSCO Development has completed its inaugural visit to the U.S. East Coast underscoring the arrival of the ‘big ship

FRANKFURT, May 12 (Reuters) – German container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd on Friday said it should achieve higher earnings this year, based on

The 20,170 teu MOL Triumph became the largest ship to ever visit the UK when it docked at the port of Southampton earlier today. MOL Triumph is the first

By Stine Jacobsen and Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN, May 11 (Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk beat first-quarter net profit forecasts on Thursday, boosted

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Container shipping lines yesterday shrugged off accusations that bigger ships and alliances would lead to less choice

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line is wasting no time in putting its blue stamp on the executive board of soon-to-be acquired Hamburg Süd, but

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has rejected the merger of the container businesses of K Line, MOL and NYK on

The latest ultra-large container vessel (ULCV) to wear the crown for the title of the ‘world’s largest containership’, and one of the first