containerships

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

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