V Group signs contracts for two 1,930-TEU containerships, marking its entry into boxship ownership through its new unit, OceanV.

George Economou's TMS Group orders up to 10 LNG dual-fuel containerships, doubling its orderbook amid market confidence, reports Splash 247.

CHINA has admitted for the first time that Hong Kong-flagged 1,620-TEU Newnew Polar Bear is responsible for the damage inflicted to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline in October, reports Newsweek

Baltimore SunHuge containership calls at port, more to visit Baltimore in 2012Baltimore SunMauro Dal Bo, district manager for Mediterranean, said the Asia-bound Sindy was actually the secondshipof its class to call on Baltimore. The Sindy's sistership, the MSC Bruxelles, stopped here two weeks ago on a trial run that the company kept...Shipsjust get bigger: 2 weeks after the massive MSC Bruxelles' visit, another...Charleston Post CourierPort of Baltimore to welcome giantship; MSC Sindy can bear 9200 20-foot...Greenfield Daily Reporterall 19 news articles »

WHAT is claimed to be the world's first retrofitted containership with an LNG engine has undergone initial bunkering at the Kuhlhauskai in the Port of Bremerhaven.

NORTH American port congestion has re-entered record-breaking territory despite reductions in ships awaiting berths from 109 vessels to 26 at Los Angeles and Long Beach, reports New York's FreightWaves

THE global containership fleet will add 1.44 million TEU in 2017 on the back of scheduled deliveries of very large container ships (VLCS) and ultra-large container ships (ULCS). The growth is almost two times bigger than the combined capacity of ships slated for decommissioning, according to Alphaliner.

MORE containerships have been scrapped in November than in any month in the last two years, according to Alphaliner.

MOL's first 20,170 TEU containership will commence its maiden voyage

MARSEILLES-based French shipping giant CMA CGM has received the world's largest containership of 16,000 TEU to be deployed on its French Asia Line, FAL 1.

MAERSK Line said one of its ships, the Alexander Maersk, was detained recently in the Port of Sfax, Tunisia