Containers
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Maersk Line quietly adds the world’s largest boxship to its fleet
In typical Maersk fashion, the Danish liner giant welcomed its latest boxship yesterday, which turns out to be the largest…
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MPC Container Ships launches with $100m aimed at the feeder market
Germany has a new niche boxship investor. MPC Capital has initiated an investment company with a focus on small-size container…
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Porter quits Seaspan
Graham Porter has quit Seaspan, the giant containership leasor he founded with Gerry Wang. He will now focus on his…
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EU approves Maersk’s Hamburg Sud buyout
Maersk Line won EU antitrust approval on Monday for its buy out of Hamburg Sud having committed to pull the…
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SM Line takes another feeder
SM Line, the brand new containerline, continues its dramatically fast fleet build up. Brokers report the Korean company, an offshoot…
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Maersk to sell Mercosul Line
Maersk Line will divest itself of Mercosul Line, its Brazilian subsidiary, to appease the Brazilian competition authority CADE as it…
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APL debuts Indonesia’s first direct box link to the US
Indonesia has its first direct transpacific box link with the departure today of an APL boxship bound for Los Angeles.…
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Giant UASC boxship aground off Port Klang
The 13,500 teu boxship , once the largest boxship in United Arab Shipping Company’s (UASC) fleet, has run aground off…
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Italian transport minister voices concern at container shipping’s consolidation
Italy’s transport minister has voiced his concerns about the supersizing of boxships and the consolidation being seen within the container…
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Fire extinguished on giant MSC boxship off Colombo
A fire that raged for 20 hours on the 14,000 teu was finally extinguished yesterday morning, but the crew, who…
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14,000 teu MSC vessel on fire off Colombo
The Indian navy has been drafted in to help Sri Lankan authorities fight a huge fire that erupted late last…
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Extra capacity on main east-west trades set to calm shipper nerves
Leading container analyst Alphaliner is claiming that Saturday’s start of the new box alliances has gone smoothly, but shippers are…
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Eimskip takeover of Nor Lines blocked by competition authority
The Norwegian Competition Authority has decided to prohibit Icelandic shippowner Eimskip from acquiring Norway’s Nor Lines. The authority said the…
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Cido sells boxship pair to Arkas
Hong Kong-based Cido Shipping has sold a pair of sub-3,000 teu boxships to Turkey’s Arkas Denizcilik. The fast expanding Turkish…
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Smart container inventor sets out to pioneer digital freight trains
Traxens, the Marseille firm best known for inventing the smart container, is turning its attention to a different mode of…
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MOL boss rings the changes, vows to ‘reshape’ business portfolio
Speaking on the occasion of Mitsui OSK Lines’ 133rd anniversary, Junichiro Ikeda, the president and CEO of the shipping giant…
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Possible impacts of the new shipping alliances
CargoSmart crunches the data ahead of tomorrow’s big container alliance reshuffle to give Splash readers an idea of what to…
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Bust Navemar’s fleet sold to Romanian interests
Constanta-based Overseas Suppliers SRL was awarded the two general cargo ships owned by bankrupt Italian line Navemar put up for…
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Kalmar keen to build Trump’s Mexican wall
Finnish cargo handler Kalmar is in the mix for a very different type of project compared to its normal logistics…
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Who’s fooling who as alliance reshuffle falls tomorrow?
I imagine most Splash readers belong to one or another of the world’s main airline alliances. I’ve been a card…
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