containerships

SEOUL (Dow Jones)–Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. (011220.SE), South Korea’s No. 2 shipping company by revenue, said Wednesday it will invest KRW695

MSC BRUXELLES entering the Port of Charleston. Photo courtesy Port of Charleston Charleston, SC – South Carolina welcomed the largest container ship to

COPENHAGEN (Dow Jones)–Danish Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, has no intention of exercising an option that would

SHANGHAI: The new generation of 10,000 TEU container vessels contracted in China by Seaspan represents major improvements in energy efficiency, cargo capacity,

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. (N03.SG) said Wednesday it has signed letters of intent for the construction of 12 new container vessels

I was delivering a 40-foot sailboat up from Chesapeake Bay this week and as we were motoring past the shipping channels lanes leading in and out of New York,

Hanjin Shipping announced Monday it received the fourth vessel in a series of five container ships with capacities of 10,000TEU. The vessel, named

Emma Maersk – Photo By Tidewater Muse Emma Maersk The Emma Maersk is a true modern marvel. She is the world’s largest container ship, the longest

UPDATE:  According to a report from Tradewinds, the order could include 18,000-teu giants. SEOUL (Dow Jones)–South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding

Military Sealift Command-chartered container ship MV BBC Ems departed McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Feb. 13 after delivering more than 84,000 square feet of

As an update to our April 2009 blog post, NYK Line has released a new video outlining more details of their Super Eco Ship concept design. Highlights of this

Ship owners and operators are betting their future profitability on super-sized container ships and must delay deliveries of additional vessels to avoid

The Journal of Commerce has just released it’s rankings of the Top 40 Container Lines by import and export volumes based on data from the first nine

Last month, the Russian owned container ship Monchegorsk became the first vessel in history to sail the entire Northern Sea Route without icebreaker

From the gCaptain Archives: In honor of the EPA’s Pollution Week, let’s take a look at an archived post on Skysails. But first, here is a brief

This weeks photo was taken by gCaptain Staff from a roof top in downtown San Francisco, California. It is of a Container Ship operated by Yang Ming passing

This map from worldmapper.org uses relative size to show proportion of all shipping containers being loaded and unloaded in each country. There are more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3-YROQ2DW8&feature=player_embedded The USNI blog tells us why container based cruise missiles might not be so far off in

Jacksonville Business Journal – by Mark Szakonyi Staff reporter Crowley Liner Services Inc. has received a contract worth up to $22 million from the U.S.

20′ container 40′ container imperial metric imperial metric externaldimensions length 20′ 0″ 6.096 m 40′ 0″ 12.192 m width