Maersk to UASC Count on Qatar to Provide Cleaner Fuels at Sea
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 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
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The seemingly never-ending quest by ocean carriers to operate bigger ships was a significant spur for orders for 60
International classification society ClassNK has released new guidance for large containerships more than two years after the loss of the MOL Comfort in the
The world’s idle containership fleet swelled to 238 vessels and topped 900,000 TEU in November as owners rapidly lay up containerships as the
A unit of China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) has entered into bareboat charter agreements for the leasing of six ultra-large containerships with a
By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar The withdrawal of services during the winter slack season will, in the next few weeks, propel laid-up cellular capacity past the
COPENHAGEN, Oct 20 (Reuters) – The world’s largest container shipping company, Maersk Line, plans to raise spot freight rates sharply on
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd has received bids for all of the shares on offer for its planned stock market flotation
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