Container Shipping

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, is seeing a short-term rise in freight rates and an

By Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — For the first time since early 2014, the dollar value of goods imported and exported by the G20 countries actually grew

By David Fickling and Rani Molla (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Here’s some good news for the hard-pressed shipping industry: Of the top 15 container lines

By Joseph Akwiri (Reuters) Kenya on Saturday inaugurated the first part of a new container terminal at Mombasa which is expected to boost by 50 percent the

By Joyce Lee and Se Young Lee SEOUL, Aug 31 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd filed for court receivership on Wednesday after losing

By Kyunghee Park and Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — Hanjin Shipping Co. is hardly a bellwether in the world of container movers. As lenders halt all

By Mike Wacket (TheLoadstar) It might not be easy for one of the new mega east-west vessel-sharing alliances to appease the regulators. The

by Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — China Cosco Holdings Co., Asia’s largest container shipping company after a government-led merger last year, posted a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Hanjin Shipping today submitted a “financial improvement plan” to its creditor banks in a final attempt to avoid

Sometimes it's difficult to wrap our brains around large numbers generated by Big Data... like the relative size of shipping companies based on their total

One year ago today the 19,224 TEU MV MSC Zoe, one of the world’s biggest containerships, was docking at the Port of Hamburg for its christening and

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadStar) Container lines are enduring a “severe revenue contraction”, said Drewry, after the first six-month turnover figures reported

COPENHAGEN, Aug 12 (Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk kept its downbeat 2016 profit forecast on Friday as the Danish shipping and oil giant reported net

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) — As ocean carriers reel from a disastrous first half this year, they seem to have lost lost their appetite for ordering

(Reuters) An Indian conglomerate has started building the country’s first transshipment port, conceived 25 years ago, and the government will construct

By David Fickling (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Think China’s plans to build railways across central Asia will be a boon for global trade? Consider this:

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. will join the world’s biggest shipping alliance, meeting all conditions imposed by creditors

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, July 7 (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators accepted on Thursday an offer from Maersk, the world’s largest container

BERLIN, June 29 (Reuters) – United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) said its six shareholding states backed a merger deal with German container shipping line

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, June 28 (Reuters) – World No.1 container liner Maersk, Swiss peer MSC and 13 other shipping firms are set to escape possible