containerships

  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

Sofrana Unilines, a New Zealand-based ship owner/operator filmed the entire 33-day round-trip voyage of its vessel Sofrana Surville as it sailed between New

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has issued a order banning to the Liberian-flagged containership MV Vega Auriga from Australia's ports over repeated

At the Posidonia conference being held this week in Athens, Greece, Capital Ship Management Corporation announced a new Joint Development Project with

Here’s a video showing the CMA CGM Marco Polo as it is towed into the port of Hamburg at night. With 16,020 TEU capacity, the MV CMA CGM Marco

Construction is officially underway on the world's first liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered containership at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San

Food importers in Asia are switching from dry bulk cargo ships to container vessels, which normally carry goods such as toys and TVs, as they offer a way to