LC Logistics transfers rights to a 14,000-TEU ship to MSC's Blue Anchor for

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Euroseas Ltd signs new charters for three 2,800-TEU ships, ensuring revenue visibility through 2029 with a projected EBITDA of $75 million.

French shipping giant CMA CGM has taken delivery of a 13,000-TEU vessel from South Korean builder HD Hyundai Samho, reports Melbourne's Baird Maritime

German shipowner Foroohari Schiffart has acquired the 13,312-TEU Manzanillo Express from Greece's Capital Ship Management for a reported US

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THE christening ceremony for Wan Hai Line's latest newbuilding, the 4,680-TEU Wan Hai 516, has been held at CSBC Corp. Taiwan's Kaohsiung shipyard.

INFRASTRUCTURE costs and related constraints could outweigh the benefits of ever larger containerships even though it is feasible to build ships of 24,000-TEU, according to classification society DNV GL.

DANISH shipping giant Maersk Line has signed a US

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A NEW 375,000-TEU annual throughput container terminal was launched in Novorossiysk, a port city on the Black Sea in southern Russia, reports St Petersburg's PortNews

THE 7,510-TEU Yantian Express that has been burning in international waters off Canada's east coast since January 3 now appears headed for the Bahamas instead of Halifax, its original destination, reports The Canadian Press

MAJOR international shipowner and provider of containerships for charter, Costamare, has recently taken delivery of the 8,827-TEU MSC Athens.

After debriefing the CIC management, Mr. Ding Nong expressed his expectations from CIC regarding the project development.

EVERGREEN and Cosco has replaced its 3,400-TEU to 4,200-TEU ships to 8,000-TEU to 9,000 TEU on the Far East-ECSA service (ECSA)

HYUNDAI Merchant Marine (HMM) has taken delivery of the 13,100-TEU Hyundai Speed, ordered in September 2007 by Greek owner Danaos Shipping from shipbuilder Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries.

US-listed containerships charter owner, Danaos Corporation, recently took delivery of one more newly built containership, the 13,100-TEU Hyundai Smart, expanding its operational fleet to a total of 62 containerships with a total capacity of 336,849 TEU.

CAI Mep International Terminal (CMIT) has become the first seaport in Vietnam to dock a 18,300-TEUer, with the arrival of the Triple E class Margrethe Maersk.

SEASPAN Corporation has taken delivery of its 11th 10,000-TEU SAVER design containership, the Maersk Genoa, that was built by Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding Co.

GULFTAINER's Sharjah Container Terminal docked the 301-TEU MAG Pearl from MAG Container Lines (MCL) on its maiden call, marking the port operator's third new service in the first quarter, reports Dubai's Transport & Logistics Middle East

GENERAL Dynamics NASSCO has signed a contract with TOTE Inc, for the design and construction of two 3,100-TEU ships

MONACO's Navios Maritime Containers has agreed to acquire a 2010-built, 4,250-TEU for US

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THREE crewmen were injured in an engine room fire aboard the 6,350-TEU MOL Prestige off the coast of British Columbia, setting the Singapore-flagged vessel adrift south west of Prince Rupert

SEASPAN Corporation has taken delivery of the CMA CGM Cochin, a 10,000-TEU ship that will commence a fixed-rate, three-year time-charter with the French shipping line, with an option to extend for three more years

MALTA's Freeport Terminal has welcomed the maiden port call of the Dutch-flagged 18,270-TEU Matz Maersk, one of the Triple E series built in 2014.

PERFORMANCE Shipping, formerly known as Diana Containerships, has sold the 2006-built 6,541-TEU containership Pucon for US$20

EIGHT empty containers fell into water from the US-flagged 1,614-TEU APL Gulf Express berthed at Kuwait's Port of Shuwaikh, on June 28, under unknown circumstances

SHENZHEN's Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) welcomed the inaugural call of the world's biggest box ship, the 18,000-TEU Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller this week.

CHINA's largest shipbuilding company, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC), has received an order for seven 8,800-TEU ships worth US$595 million

THE Hanjin Philippines Shipyard of Subic Bay has received a letter of intent to order five 9,000-TEU ships with an option to purchase five more of the same size

COSCO has received delivery of its 13,386-TEU post neopanamax vessel, the COSCO France, the second, after the delivery of the COSCO Belgium in March,

SOUTH Korea's Hanjin Shipping is to upgrade its 7,500 TEU ships to 10,000 TEU following its the assignment of its 10,114-TEU Hanjin Germany in January

SOUTH Korea's STX Offshore & Shipbuilding has gained a further order for six 16,000-TEU ships from European shipping company, believed to be the result of the London-based Zodiac Marine upgrading an order from two years ago to ten 13,000-TEU ships.

THE Port of Guangzhou's Nansha Terminal in Guangdong province has received one of the world largest containerships

SHIP Finance International Limited has announced that it has acquired two 2016-built 19,400-TEU vessels and contracted the vessels until late 2033, or for nearly 15 years, to a leading container line on long term bareboat charters

KOREA's Hanjin Shipping has announced that it has taken delivery of the 10,000-TEU Hanjin Netherlands, capable of 25.1 knots and bound for Asia Europe service in April.

TAIWAN's Evergreen Marine will deploy two of its newly built 8,452-TEU vessels on Asia-Europe service in late April

CONTAINERSHIPS, CMA CGM intra-Europe specialist has carried out its first refuelling with liquefied natural gas, announced the French shipping giant

A UNIT of Atlas Corporation, Seaspan Corporation, has accepted delivery of two 8,500-TEU scrubber-fitted ships on a long-term charter with a global liner

HAPAG-LLOYD's 15,000-TEU Al Jmeliyah has been named in Rotterdam

JAPANESE owned but Singapore based Ocean Network Express has taken delivery of the 14,052-TEU ONE Apus at the Kure Shipyard of Japan Marine United Corporation

SINGAPORE's Neptune Orient Lines' (NOL) container unit, APL, has received delivery of the 10,700-TEU APL Dublin.

THE Port of Hamburg's HHLA's Container Terminal Tollerort has accommodated the first of eight 13,380-TEU Cosco newbuildings

TAIWAN's Evergreen Line has confirmed that it is to purchase ten 23,000-TEU ships from three separate shipyards at a cost of between US

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LOCAL port operator GCT Vanterm's crane collapsed on the 7,024-TEU Ever Summit in the Port of Vancouver, reported American Shipper

ITALY's La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) is getting reading to handle 20,000-TEUers in 2022, reports Colchester's Seatrade Maritime News

THE 9,365-TEU APL Danube ran aground in Suez Canal while south-bound en route from Istanbul to Jeddah at southernmost Great Bitter Lake, reports Kiev's Maritime Bulletin, which specialises in marine casualties, After suspending all canal traffic, the ship was refloated by two tugs and resumed its south-bound voyage under tow by four tugs and was approaching Suez

JAPANESE ship building marine engineering and service company, Imabari Shipbuilding, with the cooperation of Marubeni Corporation, has secured a newbuilding order of twelve 11,000-TEU container carriers from Taiwan's Evergreen Line

UNITED Arab Shipping Company's (UASC) five 18,000-TEU ships to be delivered from April 2015 could switch over to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant mid-construction, or shortly after.

ENABLED by recent dredging, the 14,000-TEU Evergreen Triton has docked in the Port of Baltimore, setting a new record as the biggest to visit Maryland, reports Fort Lauderdale's Maritime Executive

THE Ecuador subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc (ICTSI) handled its first container vessel of 10,010-TEU capacity at the Port of Guayaquil

THE G6 Alliance, made up of APL, Hyundai, MOL, Hapag-Lloyd, NYK and OOCL, has started a Far East weekly service to Sweden's largest port of Gothenburg from the Far East, port authorities announced.

SINGAPORE'S home grown container line, Pacific International Lines (PIL), is set to move up a league following the delivery of newbuildings by 2018, according to managing director Teo Siong Seng.