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Switzerland’s curious Belt Road Initiative stance
When one thinks of Switzerland, images of mountains, chocolate, cheese and all things nice spring to mind. We also see…
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Americas
MSC forks out $50m to get cocaine-bust ship trading again
The is sailing towards the Netherlands after its operator forked out $50m to free the boxship a month after US…
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Europe
Capital boxships get new MSC charters after fitting scrubbers
Capital Product Partners has agreed new long-term time charters with MSC for 8,266 teu boxship pair Agamemnon and Archimidis. The…
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Americas
US authorities warn they may not return MSC Gayane after $1.3bn drug bust
Three weeks on after the biggest cocaine bust in US history the ship at the centre of the scandal shows…
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Europe
ZIM moves to fill the gap left by HMM at 2M
Israeli carrier has announced a further expansion of its strategic cooperation with the members of the 2M Alliance, Maersk and…
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Europe
MSC brings in $40 per teu Arabian Gulf war risk surcharge
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has become the latest liner to institute a war risk surcharge for all cargoes moving to…
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Europe
World’s largest boxship featuring 24 rows across is delivered
The world’s largest containership has been delivered this week by South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries. The 400 m long is…
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Americas
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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Americas
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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Americas
$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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Europe
MSC completes deal for 49% of Messina Group and four conro ships
Gianluigi Aponte’s Italian holding company Marinvest and Messina Group have formally signed an agreement which makes MSC the new owner…
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Europe
Israeli armed forces storm MSC boxship
Israel Defence Forces stormed a boxship anchored off Haifa yesterday after a Turkish immigrant was found to have started a…
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Americas
Lines slap war risk surcharges on Venezuela shipments
Shippers must brace for more expensive calls to crisis-hit Venezuela. MSC, the world’s second largest liner, yesterday told clients it…
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Asia
Singapore takes 10% stake in MSC’s terminal company
GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has acquired a 10% interest in Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), the sixth largest container terminal…
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Europe
CEVA Logistics appoints Nicolas Sartini as its new CEO
CEVA Logistics has appointed Nicolas Sartini as the new CEO of the company, effective from June 1. Sartini used to…
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Europe
Minerva Bunkering appoints CEO
Minerva Bunkering, the renamed and restructured Aegean Marine Petroleum Network, has appointed Tyler Baron as its chief executive officer. Baron,…
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Europe
Maurizio Aponte steps down from MSC
Maurizio Aponte, cousin of Gianluigi Aponte and one of Mediterranean Shipping Company’s (MSC) top executives from the very beginning, is…
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Containers
MSC and CMA CGM join forces Down Under
Two of the world’s largest liners are joining forces to offer a unique Europe – Oceania service. MSC and CMA…
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Europe
Transocean seals contracts with Petrobras for Ocean Rig drillship pair
Offshore driller Transocean has been awarded contracts by Brazil’s Petrobras for two drillships picked up in the acquisition of Ocean…
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Europe
MSC CIO calls for the containerisation of data communications
Last November Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Ocean Network Express announced plans to establish a container shipping association to…
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