Containers
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Maersk compares current container booking practices to the worst dining experience ever
Maersk has uploaded a new video to its YouTube channel explaining the current complicated, unreliable nature of container shipping and…
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Liners start implementing Middle East war risk surcharges
CMA CGM, the world’s fourth largest containerline, will institute a war risk surcharge of $36 per teu for cargo heading…
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HMM leaves 2M for THE Alliance
South Korean line HMM has been accepted into THE Alliance, becoming the fourth member of the liner grouping set up…
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Marseille names street in honour of CMA CGM’s founder
Marseille yesterday named a street after one of its greatest adopted sons. Stretching 2 km from the CMA CGM Tower…
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Skou sets 2021 target to raise landside business to 50% of revenues
Soren Skou, the head of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has outlined how he intends to get half his group’s revenues coming from…
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MSC Gayane cocaine bust a historic high for US Customs
Having combed through the entire ship, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has revealed it found more cocaine onboard…
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Weekly Broker: Dry bulk climbs higher
Positive performances recorded for all bulker segments have pushed the dry bulk index to year-highs this week, and sustained the…
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Splash Extra: Carbon offsetting in vogue
The bumper June issue of Splash Extra launches today packed with news, views and exclusives. The 15-page special takes a…
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Freightos bullish on big transpacific rate increases next week
Freightos, the online international freight marketplace, is predicting a “big” transpacific rate rise next week. China-US West Coast prices currently…
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Zhonggu Logistics tipped to venture overseas
Zhonggu Logistics looks likes its ready to venture overseas. Parent Zhonggu Xinliang is a private company set up in its…
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Fresh Carriers orders three reefers
Tokyo-based Fresh Carriers has placed orders for three conventional reefer ships at Japan’s Kitanihon Shipbuilding. Scheduled for delivery in 2020…
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Blockchain consortium sets out to tackle misdeclared cargo issue
Blockchain technology is being trialled to try and counter the alarming string of boxship fires started by misdeclared goods. Maritime…
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Maersk Spot unveiled as Danish carrier moves ahead with online box bookings
Maersk today unveiled the next chapter in its quest to lead liner shipping’s path to online container bookings. With the…
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Former UBS banker sentenced to nine years in Shanghai jail over OOCL takeover leaks
Corruption has been unearthed in Cosco’s 2017 $6.3bn takeover of Hong Kong containerline Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL). The Wall…
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Maersk and Bollore Logistics collaborate to cut emissions
Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company by capacity, has signed a deal with logistics and supply chain management company…
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More arrests as US authorities take action against MSC
Investigators have found more cocaine than initially reported onboard the with further arrests in one of the largest drugs busts…
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Clothing giant H&M first to try on Maersk’s landmark carbon-neutral transport offering
In claiming another first for the industry today, Maersk has unveiled a carbon-neutral product using biofuel that it is now…
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Weekly Broker: Firming sentiment sees plenty of ships change hands
Firming sentiment among larger bulkers with iron ore trades picking up has resulted in an uptick of S&P deals. The…
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$1bn worth of cocaine found on MSC ship
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co is once again at the centre of a huge cocaine bust at the Port of Philadelphia.…
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Antong Holdings voluntarily issues risk warning on stock trading
Antong Holdings, the largest domestic container shipping company in China, has issued a risk warning on the company’s stock trading…
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