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By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Container shipping lines may be finally getting the vessel overcapacity crisis under control. It was revealed today

By Gavin van Marle in Singapore (The Loadstar) – A leading shipping analyst has predicted the return of rate volatility to the world’s major trades as

By Gavin van Marle & Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – As the new alliance structure prepares to get underway tomorrow, with the Ocean and THE alliances

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Hapag-Lloyd recorded a profit of $46m in the final three months of 2016– a recovery too little too late to prevent the

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The eastbound capacity crunch hitting shippers to Asia is not temporary, but the beginning of a more permanent shift in

By Gavin van Marle in Long Beach (The Loadstar) – The entire shipping industry – carriers and their customers and suppliers – need to come together

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – A sharp increase in steel prices has prompted a new wave of vessel scrapping, bringing the supply-demand ratio in

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Beleaguered panamax containership owner Rickmers Maritime Trust (RMT) has pleaded with its creditors for help to

By Mike Wackett  (The Loadstar) – Ahead of the Maersk Group 2016 annual report due on Wednesday, analyst Jefferies has predicted a substantial

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – At least 100 panamax-class containerships need to be scrapped if owners are to see charter rates return to break-even

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Port and terminal consolidation is the “only long-term answer” to mitigate the impact of fewer calls of ultra large

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Following the bankruptcy of Hanjin, Taiwan’s Yang Ming is now the container line in the greatest financial danger,

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – CMA CGM and China Cosco are the two most likely carriers to buy OOCL, should its main shareholders decide to sell the

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Singapore’s terminal operator PSA today reported that it handled 67.63m teu across both its international network

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – K Line has filed a lawsuit against Singapore-based APL Logistics, claiming its employees had wrongly suggested the

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.

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Six months after the implementation of verified gross mass (VGM) requirements, traditional anxieties in the

By Mike Wackett  (The Loadstar) – Three months after the collapse of Hanjin Shipping, hundreds of shippers have still not received their cargo, even

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Zim Integrated Shipping Services recorded a $74m net loss in the second quarter of the year. This compares with a $23m

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Hanjin Shipping today submitted a “financial improvement plan” to its creditor banks in a final attempt to avoid