Minerva Marine orders two additional 3,100 TEU vessels at Penglai Jinglu Shipyard, increasing its fleet to five ships for delivery in 2027-2028.

RMK Marine begins construction of MIARAKA, the first sailing container ship, promoting sustainable maritime transport in collaboration with Windcoop.

Global container growth slows to 2.1%, hindered by US and EU import declines, despite gains in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Hapag-Lloyd invests $500 million in eight dual-fuel ships to enhance fleet efficiency and reduce carbon emissions by 2030.

SHENZHEN will focus on enhancing container transportation services across key port areas including Yantian, Nanshan, and Dachan Bay, reports UK's Seatrade Maritime News

WESTPORTS Holdings reported a 19

CONTAINER LINES enjoyed a buoyant first half of 2024 in almost all Australasian trades, according to London-based Container Trade Statistics

MANILA's International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) has announced plans to build a large new international container terminal in the southern Philippines that can become a key international gateway and drive regional economic growth, reports Fort Lauderdale's Maritime Executive

SAUDI ARABIA's Ministry of Commerce registered 2,457 new commercial files for container handling services during the second quarter of 2024, a year-on year-increase of 48 per cent, reported Saudi Press Agency

THE unstable geopolitical conditions in the Red Sea have forced container ships from Asia to circumnavigate Africa, approaching Cosco Port terminals in Spain and northern Europe instead of Piraeus, Greece's biggest port

ISRAEL's major shipping liner Zim has taken a US$3 billion punt that demolition and emissions regulations allied with a more flexible charter market and economic growth will create drivers that will bring a better supply and demand balance to the market in 2025

CONTAINER shipping costs from Korea to the US west coast experienced a 7

DURING Jaxport's regular board meeting, Florida legislators presented US$30 million to the port, reports New York's Maritime Professional

DUBAI-BASED port operator DP World expects to add approximately 3 million TEU of new container handling capacity by the end of the year

AFTER conducting a re-evaluation of the Philippine Port Authority's (PPA) Trusted Operator Program-Container Registry and Monitoring System (TOP-CRMS), the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) has advised the PPA to explore 'cost-effective' alternatives to address potential congestion while minimizing the impact on stakeholders, reports Manilla's Business Mirror

ISRAEL-BASED ocean carrier Zim has been cutting its exposure to the freight market by offloading multiple leased vessels, according t New York's FreightWaves

CONTAINER lines are concerned about the deteriorating trading outlook for the second half of the year as tighter monetary policies dampen consumer demand

BLANK sailings will peak on the Asia-Europe trades in the next three weeks, with carriers withdrawing close to 40 per cent of capacity in an attempt to match their available space with evaporating demand

MEDITERRANEAN Shipping Company (MSC) has published an updated list of service charges related to container shipping in the US market, effective from January 1

CONTAINERSHIP fires have once more focussed attention on the poor processing of dangerous goods, says Peregrine Storrs-Fox, TT Club's risk management director, who is leading the marine insurer's 'Cargo Integrity' campaign

FOLLOWING two months of steady increases in long-term contracted rates for containership operators, the latest XSI Public Indices report from Oslo-based Xeneta shows a reversal of fortunes, with rates falling by 4

SO far this year 826,000 TEU of cellular capacity on some 108 vessels has been received by liner operators, raising the total global containership fleet capacity to 23 million TEU, according to Alphaliner data

THE container port and terminal business 'faces greater uncertainties now than at any time since the container revolution started in the late 1970s', according to a 221-page report by industry veterans Remco Stenvert and Andrew Penfold, who warn that many of the risks confronting the industry are 'beyond the control of operators'

DEMAND growth in the container shipping industry will slow in 2011 to nearly half of last year's double-digit expansion as strong consumer buying eases in emerging markets, industry experts said.

GLOBAL container volume saw a strong rebound in 2010, marking an estimated 560 million TEU, up an all-time high of 14.5 per cent year on year after experiencing an 8.9 per cent decline in 2009, the first ever drop.

THE European Shippers' Council (ESC) has warned of "a risky development for a free market for transport of goods over sea" with the recent moves towards a global container line market in the hands of four major alliances.

THE global economic slowdown is to blame for the global shipping industry's near zero growth in 2016, prompting hundreds of cargo ships to be sent the scrap heap prematurely to keep the lid on surplus capacity and freight rates above the break-even point.

THE outlook for container shipping over the next 25 years is extremely uncertain, according to a study published by insurer T T Club and consulting firm McKinsey

Technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply its latest carbon capture and storage-ready scrubber systems

SINGAPORE, the world's second largest container port, handled 37

OCTOBER container volumes at the Port of Los Angeles dropped by 25 per cent on the year amid slowing import demand and ongoing cargo shifts towards the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts as shippers look to alternative gateways for ex-Asian cargoes, the Port said

SAUDI Ports have raised container throughput volumes 10

A CONTAINER has exploded at the Port of Crotone, Italy, killing three seafarers and injuring one, reports London's Port Technology

A DUTCH court has ruled that ship managers, shipowners, and charterers must honour a clause that cargo lashing work should be assigned to dockers, rather than seafarers, reports North Sydney's Daily Cargo News

CONTAINER volumes at the Port of Melbourne have dropped since the beginning of this year as the global supply chain is facing unprecedented hurdles; and the port anticipates more woes ahead of the peak season

DUBAI's DP World handled 19

CONTAINER throughput at the Port of Colombo hit an all-time high of 7

THE increasing number of ship arrivals at Chattogram port amid the economic recovery from Covid fallouts has led to the pile-up of containers rising to 90 per cent of the yard capacity

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

AN explosion on board the Singapore-flagged container vessel MV X-Press Pearl, on which a fire had been burning for several days anchored near Sri Lanka's capital, has prompted the crew's evacuation with two injured seamen, reports Associated Press

CONTAINER shipping has proved to be remarkably resilient in 2020 in terms of volumes as well as freight rates despite the alarming headlines in the spring of last year

GLOBAL port operator DP World handled 18

COVID-19 has resulted in a 15 per cent plunge in container traffic through the Suez Canal, reports Rome's ANSA (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata)

WITH the coronavirus pandemic continuing to slacken container traffic across all major ports in India during July, Cochin and Deendayal ports bucked the downward trend in the month, with container volumes surpassing the year-ago figure by 6 per cent and 10 per cent respectively

THE US-China trade war, the prolonged Lunar New Year factory shutdown combined with the coronavirus outbreak worldwide squeezed container volumes at most of the US' top container ports in January

BEST container terminal in the Port of Barcelona orders more Konecranes ARMGs Konecranes has won an order for 6 Automated Rail Mounted Gantry (ARMG) cranes from BEST container terminal, a Hutchison operation in the Port of Barcelona

German container ship DEMETER Update: kidnapped crew nationalities

15 stowaways discovered in container

Hapag-Lloyd christens container vessel at the HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder

StreamLines adds new container service from Port of Wilmington