Container Shipping

By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar The withdrawal of services during the winter slack season will, in the next few weeks, propel laid-up cellular capacity past the

  By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar Drewry has almost halved its global growth forecast for container shipping this year, down to 2.2% from 4.3%, and its

  FRANKFURT, Oct 27 (Reuters) – German container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd is postponing its stock market debut by a week after investors turned

  By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk cut its profit forecast for 2015 citing a weaker container shipping market as the outlook

  By Jonathan Saul LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) – London’s Baltic Exchange and Chinese state-owned Ningbo Shipping Exchange said on Friday they

  COPENHAGEN, Oct 20 (Reuters) – The world’s largest container shipping company, Maersk Line, plans to raise spot freight rates sharply on

  GENEVA, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Shipping mergers are leaving an increasing number of countries serviced by too few suppliers to ensure a competitive

  FRANKFURT, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd trimmed its initial public offering (IPO) amid wobbly markets on Wednesday,

  The Port of Long Beach last month achieved its busiest September ever, closing out a record quarter in the port’s 104-year history. Measured by

The Triple-E containership Madison Maersk leaves the Port of Rotterdam carrying 17,152 TEU – a record according to Maersk. Maersk says the vessel also

  SHANGHAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Asian shipping lines including Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha and China Shipping Container Lines have

  By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar The era of global slow-steaming by container lines could be about to end with the recent announcement of improved transit

  By Yaacov Benmeleh (Bloomberg) — Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., a marine transportation company, hired Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill

  By Gavin van Marle, The Loadstar The second panamax containership to undergo innovative “widening” conversion is set to return to the water next

  By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar Some 90,000 teu of cellular capacity was consigned to lay-up in the past two weeks, taking redundant tonnage to its

  By Gavin van Marle, The Loadstar LNG-fuelled containerships could offer operators considerable cost savings when the price of traditional fuel rises

  (The following statement was released by the rating agency) LONDON, September 28 (Fitch) China’s slower growth and economic transition will pose

  COPENHAGEN, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from ports in Asia to Northern Europe fell 31 percent to $313

  SHANGHAI, Sept 24 (Reuters) – China is probing shipping companies over allegations that they have been levying arbitrary and excessive charges,

  By Gavin van Marle, The Loadstar Just how much money would container shipping lines be losing if it weren’t for the relentlessly steep decline in