A Chinese container feeder now features a truck-mounted catapult for combat drones, showcasing a shift in military adaptation of merchant vessels.

JAPANESE-OWNED and Singapore-headquartered Ocean Network Express' (ONE's) largest container ships 'ONE Innovation' arrived in Hamburg on July 15, reports AJOT

JAPANESE-OWNED and Singapore-headquartered Ocean Network Express' (ONE's) largest container ships 'ONE Innovation' arrived in Hamburg on July 15, reports AJOT

JAPANESE-OWNED and Singapore-headquartered Ocean Network Express' (ONE's) largest container ships 'ONE Innovation' arrived in Hamburg on July 15, reports AJOT

FRENCH shipping giant CMA CGM has welcomed the third in a series of five 15,000-TEU LNG-powered containerships built at the Chinese Jiangnan Shipyard, reports Rotterdam's Offshore Energy The naming ceremony for CMA CGM Everglade took place on January 10 at China State Shipbuilding Corporation's (CSSC) Jiangnan shipyard

THE global idle containership fleet has climbed to 820,000 TEU for a total of 288 ships as at December 3, according to Alphaliner data

THE seven-year-old Hammonia Grenada has become the youngest containership ever to be sold for scrap at a price of US$315 per LDT, or $5.5 million, breaking the previous record set last month by the 2009-built Panamax, Rickmers India.

German shipper Hermann Wulff also decided to send its 4,546 TEU vessel Viktoria Wulff to ship breaking yards.

In the night of Feb 2, 2011, shortly after midnight the "MSC Eyra", while sailing from Helsinki to Antwerp, was in collision with the "Baltiyskiy-109", around 10 miles northwest of Skagen.

A MODERN container terminal at the Australian port of Newcastle would reduce land transport costs for northern New South Wales businesses by AUD2

A NEW 2,194-TEU containership delivered to Lomar Shipping from a shipyard in China earlier this year has split in two, after smashing into the Durand reefs near New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean on July 12.

The 6,456TEU CMA CGM Verlaine, seriously damaged amidships in a collision with Zim Line's 1,700TEU Odessa Star on April 4 in the Gulf of Izmit, Turkey, has arrived at the Tuzla shipyard anchorage with a view ...

CHINA Cosco Shipping's 2011-built 14,000 TEU containership CSCL Jupiter has delayed its scheduled departure from Vietnam following a collision with another vessel

THE NYK-chartered containership that collided with a US Navy vessel off the coast of Japan on June 17 was on autopilot at the time of the early morning collision, a preliminary investigation has found.

By Jan 12, 99 container units still remained on board the 'Kea Trader', of which 86 were empty, with nearly 4,800 tonnes of container load having already removed

HONG KONG-flagged and managed containership, the 5,090-TEU Aeneas has been involved in a three-ship ship collision in the the Suez Canal, colliding with a bulk carrier that ran aground

HAPAG-LLOYD and Evergreen Marine have put in separate requests to Asian yards for the construction of more than a dozen mega containerships worth a combined US$2

THE capacity of idle containerships at the beginning of March has surged to an all-time high of 1.57 million TEU - topping the 1.52 million TEU peak at the end of 2009, reports Alphaliner.