containerships

The logistics arm of retail giant IKEA has teamed up with French shipping group CMA CGM and others to test the use of sustainable marine bio-fuel oil on board

Yang Ming has christened the final two 14,000 TEU containerships in a five-vessel series built by Imabari Shipbuilding and chartered by Yang Ming. The two

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – The Ocean Alliance has announced plans to cancel 10 transpacific sailings in March and April, as the early signs

MAN Energy Solutions has signed a contract for the conversion of a 15,000 TEU container vessel to dual-fuel LNG operation. The container vessel MV SAJIR is

By Mike Wackett in Long Beach (The Loadstar) – The implications for carriers and BCOs of the IMO low-sulphur regulations that come into force in

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – High capacity and low demand will leave ocean carriers on Asia-North Europe routes in a tight spot, with analysts

By Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China are close to a trade deal that could lift most or all U.S. tariffs as long as Beijing follows

PARIS, March 1 (Reuters) – French container shipping group CMA CGM booked record revenue in 2018 as trans-Pacific goods traffic remained buoyant despite

The Ocean Network Express’s ultra-large containership MOL Tribute has set a new record for the most twenty-foot equivalent containers ever loaded onto a

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – A “reduced appetite” for ordering ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) and carriers instead aspiring to become

French shipping group CMA CGM has signed to acquire Finland’s Containerships from Container Finance Ltd Oy. Containerships specializes in the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The number of containerships in lay-up has dipped below 100, according to Alphaliner. Its latest survey reveals strong

A containership operated by Brazilian shipping company Mercosul Line was involved in a serious collision with a tug pushing barges down the Amazon River on

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The spectre of overcapacity is clouding recent analyst optimism that ocean carriers could be heading for a period of

Fleet of eleven containerships to be largest built in China, with ABB turbochargers ABB turbochargers are powering the main engines and auxiliary engines of

Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines says it has confirmed an average 2% reduction in overall carbon dioxide emissions in live tests of its

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

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) A lack of orders for smaller containerships over the past few years, with operators focused on large vessels, is

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) Brokers are reporting good news for embattled containership owners this week in the container charter market, with a big rise in

The Maersk Triple-E containership Maersk Elba became the largest ship to call in Israel on Thursday after docking at Haifa Port’s Carmel Terminal. The