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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The number of container vessels sent to breakers’ yards so far this year will shortly eclipse the total demolished in

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Maersk Line’s aggressive growth strategy in the first three months of this year was a contributing factor in the 23%

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – The IMO has urged regulators to take a “pragmatic” approach to the new SOLAS VGM requirements for the first three

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – The shock waves from the collapse of a top-20 container line such as Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) could be the

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Creditors of Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) today rejected a rescheduling of the troubled shipping company’s debt,

By Mike Wackett, (The Loadstar) – Idled global container capacity has reached a record high of 1.57m teu, according to the latest data from Alphaliner.

By Mike Wackett, Ocean carriers cancelled some 230 sailings in 2015 between Asia and North Europe to boost vessel utilisation levels, and, according to Drewry,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – DP World’s two UK container terminals at London Gateway and Southampton are to offer shippers container weighing

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The jury is out as to whether the dramatic fall in oil prices in the past two years has produced a net benefit

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Analysts agree there is no recovery in sight for the beleaguered containership charter market, which is facing its

By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar There are “significant obstacles” to the sale of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), despite interest from Maersk

  By Mike Wackett, The Loadstar Maersk Line’s decision last week to lay-up one of its 18,000 teu flagships is “good news for the industry”, Drewry

  By Gavin van Marle, The Loadstar Just how much money would container shipping lines be losing if it weren’t for the relentlessly steep decline in