Container Shipping

gCaptain’s full coverage of the global container shipping industry.


Thursday, May 23, 2013
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: 67

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: 102

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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: 65

Friday, May 17, 2013
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: 181

Thursday, May 16, 2013
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: 24

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: 228

News

14 New Ships to be Added to Neptune Orient Lines’ Containership Fleet

Neptune Orient Lines Ltd., Southeast Asia’s biggest container-shipping company, said it will add more fuel-efficient ships this year to pare costs as a

May 15, 2013
Total Views: 165

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Finance

Off to a Better Start, Neptune Orient Lines Reports Q1 Profit

Neptune Orient Lines Ltd., Southeast Asia’s biggest container-shipping company, posted a profit in the first quarter, helped by gains from selling its

May 14, 2013
Total Views: 35

Monday, May 13, 2013
Interesting

Mærsk McKinney-Møller – Meet The World’s Largest Ship! [Multimedia Gallery]

Early this month gCaptain was invited to DSME, the world's second largest shipyard, for a behind-the-scenes tour of the world's largest ship, the mighty Maersk

May 13, 2013
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Friday, May 10, 2013
News

Largest Container Ships Help Hyundai Heavy Crack China

(Bloomberg) — Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. failed for eight years to win ship orders from China. That ended when it pledged to build the world’s

May 10, 2013
Total Views: 169

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Maersk Line Limited Invests $500 Million on Newer Ships

The U.S.-flagged arm of Denmark-based Maersk Line says it is spending $500 million on the purchase and reflagging of eight newer and larger

May 7, 2013
Total Views: 160

Monday, May 6, 2013
Interesting

Hyundai to Build World’s Largest Container Ships for CSCL

CSCL orders five 18,400 teu containerships from

May 6, 2013
Total Views: 516

Monday, April 29, 2013
News

Maersk Line Hires Microsoft Exec as New Chief Commercial Officer

Maersk Line announced today they have hired Stephen Richard Schueler to replace Lucas Vos as Chief Commercial Officer, effective 27 May. Stephen is American,

April 29, 2013
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News

CSCL to Build Five 18,000 TEU Containerships

In a stock exchange announcement over the weekend, China Shipping Container Lines has expressed their intentions to build five, 18,000 TEU containerships. The

April 29, 2013
Total Views: 81

Thursday, April 25, 2013
Finance

Diana Containerships – Lessons Learned From The Disposal of Maersk Madrid

Bruised investors could learn a thing or

April 25, 2013
Total Views: 146

News

German Containership Hansa Marburg Attacked Off Equatorial Guinea

The 23,416 dwt container ship “HANSA MARBURG” was attacked by criminal gangs about 130 nautical miles southwest of the Port of

April 25, 2013
Total Views: 124

Monday, April 22, 2013
News

HSH Nordbank Cuts Bad Ship Loans Through 10 Ship Deal With Navios

Deal marks Navios' entry into the container ship

April 22, 2013
Total Views: 9

Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Interesting

Diana Containerships: A Difficult But Necessary Decision to Scrap MAERSK MADRID

At the outset, this might appear as a setback for the fledgling company. But on a cash-flow basis, the company has fared much better or, to be exact, less

April 17, 2013
Total Views: 74

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
News

Japanese Shipping Lines Cash in on Weak Yen

(Bloomberg) — Japanese shipping lines, buffeted by a decline in freight rates, are set to get a more than $500 million boost to their earnings from a

April 16, 2013
Total Views: 54

Monday, April 8, 2013
News

Hamburg City Pushes For Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg Süd Shipping Merger

KIEL, Germany, April 8 (Reuters) – The city of Hamburg wants shippers Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Süd to resume merger talks so that they stand a better

April 8, 2013
Total Views: 102