containerships

The 13,000 TEU NYK Hyperion calls at Poland’s Deepwater Container Terminal Gdansk (DCT Gdansk), marking the fourth ship to call at the port under the G6

  Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has started testing a new containership ‘windshield’ technology that it hopes will help cut wind resistance,

The second of two Marlin-class containerships was launched over the weekend at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego where the vessels are being

  A fire broke out in the cargo area of a UASC containership early Friday morning as it arrived at the port of Hamburg. Local media reports say that

  CMA CGM Group has announced the delivery of the ultra-large containership CMA CGM VASCO DE GAMA on Monday from China State Shipbuilding Corporation.

  Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, announced Wednesday the signing of a newbuild contract with South Korea’s

  After successful sea trials, the world’s first widened containership – MSC Geneva – re-entered service this month sailing between

  A toxic mixture of overcapacity, weak demand and aggressive commercial pricing is threatening liner shipping industry profitability for the rest of

Check out this amazing time-lapse footage filmed aboard the containership MV Carat during a recent trip through northern Europe. The uploader tells us: This

  The International Association of Classifications Societies (IACS) has announced the adoption of new rules to further improve the safety of Large

Today’s ship photos are of five containerships that were once considered the world’s largest by TEU carrying capacity. The list starts with

We’ve heard of ship lengthening, but German shipping company REEDEREI NSB is undertaking an innovative new project to widen three of its Panamax

Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas (International) Limited (OOIL) revealed Wednesday that it has entered into shipbuilding contracts with Samsung Heavy

This is how much size matters in the shipping industry: Bragging rights for the world’s largest container ship have changed hands four times in as many

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has entered into a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries for the construction of four 20,150 TEU capacity Ultra Large Container

DNV GL on Thursday announced that it has welcomed the MSC Oscar containership into its class, which at 19,224 TEU is the world's largest containership by

Japanese shipbuilder Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. says it has secured newbuilding orders for 11 containerships with a TEU capacity of 20,000, marking the

Egypt's public prosecutor charged the captain and first officer of a Kuwaiti container ship with manslaughter in connection with a collision in the Red Sea

Two large containerships collided Tuesday night at Malaysia’s Port Klang, sparking fires in the forward container stacks of both vessels. The

With known weather and sea conditions at the time of the breakup, finite element modeling conducted by Japanese classification society ClassNK showed that the