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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
suez canal container ship shipping
News

Record Number of Box Ships to be Delivered in 2013, Yet Orderbooks are Thinning

The ratio of container TEU capacity on-order compared to the trading fleet dropped below 20% in June, reports Braemar Seascope. The broker advises that, as the

June 18, 2013
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Monday, June 17, 2013
mol comfort
Incidents

No Answers, Only Questions Surround MOL Comfort Incident

UPDATE: New information has revealed that the ship did not sink, rather it broke in two with both sides still afloat. The loss of the MOL Comfort (formerly

June 17, 2013
Total Views: 172

Friday, June 14, 2013
Maersk Line Names World’s Largest Ship  – Mærsk McKinney-Møller
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Maersk Line Names World’s Largest Ship – Mærsk McKinney-Møller

Ane Maersk Mc-Kinney Uggla, chairman of the Moller Foundation, had the honour of naming Maersk Line's first Triple-E containership during a naming ceremony

June 14, 2013
Total Views: 260

Thursday, June 13, 2013
Maersk To Pay $100 Million Less For New Triple-E’s

Maersk To Pay $100 Million Less For New Triple-E’s

A.P. Moller-Maersk will pay about $100 million less than predicted for 20 mega-size container vessels ordered from Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine

June 13, 2013
Total Views: 49

Monday, June 10, 2013
Maersk Triple-E – MV Mærsk McKinney-Møller Sea Trials [PHOTOS]
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Maersk Triple-E – MV Mærsk McKinney-Møller Sea Trials [PHOTOS]

First photos showing the Maersk Triple-E

June 10, 2013
Total Views: 92

Thursday, June 6, 2013
Pier 400 Los Angeles apm terminals container shipping maersk line

Maersk Falls as Jefferies Sees Rate Rise Flop

A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S fell in Copenhagen trading after Jefferies Group LLC said the world’s largest shipping line may report losses at the end of the

June 6, 2013
Total Views: 25

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Ship Photos of The Day – Four Super-Post Panamax Cranes Arrive in Georgia [GALLERY]
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Ship Photos of The Day – Four Super-Post Panamax Cranes Arrive in Georgia [GALLERY]

Four massive new ship-to-shore cranes arrived at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal on Wednesday, bringing the total number of

June 5, 2013
Total Views: 115

maersk line triple-e containership

Container Ship Demand to Return With Globalization, Maersk Line Says

Demand growth in the container- shipping industry probably won’t return to pre-crisis levels in the coming years as the pace of globalization slows,

June 5, 2013
Total Views: 38

Tuesday, June 4, 2013
TOTE’s LNG-Powered Containerships Take Home ‘Next Generation Shipping’ Award
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TOTE’s LNG-Powered Containerships Take Home ‘Next Generation Shipping’ Award

With a focus on innovation, the Next Generation Ship Award honors the most promising design for ships that will be at sea in the coming

June 4, 2013
Total Views: 68

Friday, May 31, 2013
Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft Oceanex Connaigra
News

FSG Launches Innovative Ice-Classed ConRo Ferry, the Oceanex Connaigra

8 months after the first plate of steel was cut, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) shipyard has launched the 210 meter-long ConRo ferry Oceanex

May 31, 2013
Total Views: 243

Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Costamare Enters $500 Million Joint Venture to Expand Fleet of Boxships
News

Costamare Enters $500 Million Joint Venture to Expand Fleet of Boxships

Athens-based containership owner/charterer, Costamare Inc. (NYSE:CMRE) announced today a new joint venture with investment advisor firm, York Capital

May 29, 2013
Total Views: 177

Maersk’s 8.4 Billion Bananas Key for Profitable Ships

Maersk’s 8.4 Billion Bananas Key for Profitable Ships

The secret to making money in container shipping can be found in 8.4 billion

May 29, 2013
Total Views: 355

Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Maersk Triple-E Ship at night
Interesting

Maersk Triple-E – A Detailed Look At The World’s Biggest Ship

Forty-thousand alarm clocks buzzed as one, waking an equal number of workers for work at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), the world’s

May 28, 2013
Total Views: 1491

Monday, May 27, 2013
Ship Finance International
News

Ship Finance International Places Order for Four Containerships

Ship Finance International Limited (NYSE:SFL) announced late last week their plans to build four 8,700 TEU container vessels at a major shipyard in Korea.

May 27, 2013
Total Views: 18

Thursday, May 23, 2013
Sinoceanic shipping
News

SinOceanic Shipping Orders 10 Newbuild Containerships

Oslo-based ship investment company, SinOceanic Shipping ASA, has entered into a contract with Jinhai Heavy Industries to build ten, 8,800 TEU state-of-the art

May 23, 2013
Total Views: 48

edith maersk
News

Maersk CEO: “As Long as There’s Overcapacity, There Will be Price Wars”

(Bloomberg) — A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Chief Executive Officer Nils Smedegaard Andersen said he’ll be forced to prolong cost cuts at the

May 23, 2013
Total Views: 75

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
M/V Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller under tow
Interesting

WATCH: Building The World’s Largest Ship in 50,000 Pics, PART TWO

Maersk Line has just released this time-lapse video of the Maersk Triple-E as a sequel to their first video of the vessel of the under construction at DSME in

May 22, 2013
Total Views: 42

Friday, May 17, 2013
maersk
News

Maersk Line Seeks to Double Freight Rates Amid Weak Container Market

A.P. Moller-Maersk is "100 percent certain" it can more than double freight rates in July despite market weakness that has seen prices fall by a third since

May 17, 2013
Total Views: 127

Thursday, May 16, 2013
hapag-lloyd
News

Hapag-Lloyd First-Quarter Loss Narrows, “Competition Remains Extremely Challenging”

May 15 (Bloomberg) — Hapag-Lloyd AG, Europe’s fourth- largest container-shipping line, said its first-quarter loss almost halved as freight rates

May 16, 2013
Total Views: 12

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
hapag lloyd hamburg sud
News

Hamburg Süd – Hapag-Lloyd Merger Talks Put on Indefinite Hold

FRANKFURT, May 15 (Reuters) – Hamburg Süd, Germany’s second-largest shipping group, said on Wednesday it did not expect to resume merger talks

May 15, 2013
Total Views: 139
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