containerships

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

A total of 15 containers were lost from a general cargo ship in the North Sea off the Netherlands on Wednesday. The Dutch Coastguard reported the

Another 7-year-old panamax containership is headed to the breakers, all but solidifying the death of the panamax-class amid global shipping’s

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The next industry casualty of the Hanjin collapse may not be a carrier, but a major non-operating containership owner.

There are those times when shipping accidents occur way out at sea, far out of view to majority of the public. Then there at those other times when accidents

A Maersk Line containership ran aground in the Suez Canal Tuesday afternoon causing several hours of traffic delays before

One of the best things about being out at sea is seeing the stars at

By Mohammed Aly Sergie and Claudia Carpenter (Bloomberg) — Shippers from A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S to United Arab Shipping Co. are testing liquefied

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The chief executive of Hanjin Shipping, Tai Soo Suk, has written to owners of the ships it has on charter – and

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Laid-up containership capacity “remains at an alarmingly high level”, according to the latest review by Alphaliner

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – If losses continue and ocean carriers persist in focusing only on reducing costs rather than improving revenue per teu,

Film by JefferyHK from aboard the 8,000 TEU containership OOCL Atlanta as it the Tsing Ma Bridge headed for the port of Hong Kong. Check out Jeffery’s

HAMBURG, March 23 (Reuters) – German container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd said it expected a clear increase in operating profit (EBIT) this year thanks

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Idled global container capacity has reached a record high of 1.57m teu, according to the latest data from Alphaliner.

NYK Line says it has taken delivery of the “cutting edge” newbuild MV NYK Blue Jay, a uniquely-designed 14,000 TEU capacity containership that

By Mike Wackett, Ocean carriers cancelled some 230 sailings in 2015 between Asia and North Europe to boost vessel utilisation levels, and, according to Drewry,

An ultra large containership had to make a controlled grounding in the Solent Saturday night while on its way to the port of Southampton, the second incident

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The jury is out as to whether the dramatic fall in oil prices in the past two years has produced a net benefit

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Lower bunker costs are “very welcome in an industry struggling to make a profit”, says shipping industry association

COPENHAGEN, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Global container ship capacity is expected to increase by 4.6 percent in 2016, the slowest growth rate in more than 25