Medcon Lines enhances Mediterranean operations with a $34 million acquisition of three container ships, increasing fleet capacity significantly.

Frontline is investing $2 billion to modernize its VLCC fleet by retiring older vessels and acquiring advanced, technology-driven tankers.

The global container shipping fleet surged from 4.5M TEU in 2000 to 33.6M TEU in 2025, driven by consolidation and increased vessel sizes.

Venezuela's oil trade flourishes as ghost tankers evade US sanctions, highlighting the limitations of maritime enforcement under Trump's policies.

COSCO Shipping is expanding its heavy lift fleet with four new MPP vessels to support the growing wind energy sector, investing $213 million.

Russian tankers are changing routes near Turkey to avoid Ukrainian drone attacks in the Black Sea, according to Windward's analysis.

Bloomberg uncovers a shadow fleet transporting sanctioned Russian LNG to China using deceptive tracking methods, undermining U.S. sanctions.

DANISH shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk is in the process of signing newbuilding orders and time-charter contracts for dual-fuel vessels under its continuing fleet renewal programme initiated in 2021 with a planned renewal pace of around 160,000 TEU per year

STATISTICS from Alphaliner show that the global liner vessel fleet has reached 30 million TEU for the first time in history with a TEU tsunami cascading out of yards in Asia this year delivering a record volume of newbuildings

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 number of containerships idle worldwide stands at 187 units with a combined capacity of 448,000 TEU as of July 15, according to the latest data

IN its new analysis of global shipping, BIMCO is forecasting a slowing growth rate for the world's fleet in the next five years compared to the last five years, despite the recent flurry of construction orders coming primarily in the containership and gas carrier segments

AMERICAN e-commerce giant Amazon has rapidly increased its air cargo business in recent months while the airline industry may be reeling from the coronavirus pandemic

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has won an order to provide Kalmar Fleet Solution of mobile equipment to Australian Container Freight Services (ACFS) operations in Adelaide, Fremantle and Melbourne

Slightly later than originally scheduled, Unity Line’s latest fleet addition, the 1995-built ro-pax COPERNICUS, will enter service on the Swinoujscie-Trelleborg route in mid-August after undergoing upgrade work in Szczecin

Bahri beefs up its fleet of VLCCs with delivery of 300,000dwt tanker ASLAF

Port fleet of Baltic Sea Tug Agency (Ust-Luga port) expanded with two new tugboats

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.

Solvtrans has signed a new contract with the Spanish shipyard Zamakona Yards for the construction of a new

National Iranian Tanker Company said that in 2011, 6 giant oil tanker ships will be added to the fleet increasing its capacity up to 12.5 million tons a year.

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GROWTH of the global containership fleet will continue to be led by mega ships with demand for small vessels on a downwards trajectory

ONLINE retail giant Amazon is becoming a player in the logistics and shipping industry, say analysts as its air cargo fleet grows to 50 planes serving new regional hubs, including a US

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Pacific Basin Shipping's strategy to expand its fleet at a time when the market was down is paying off as its earnings from Handysize ships outperformed its peers by 32 per cent and helped the dry bulk operator to turn around in the first half.

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SINGAPORE's Pacific International Lines has attained Environmental Ship Index (ESI) certification for its fleet comprising 500,000 TEU, ahead of the International Maritime Organization's January 2020 deadline for ships to use marine fuel with a sulphur content cap of 0

OSLO-BASED containership owner and operator MPC Container Ships (MPCC) is continuing to expand its vessel fleet with the acquisition of another feeder-size containership, the 1,740-TEU AS Selina, a vessel built in 2012 at the Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in China, for US

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GREENWICH, Connecticut-based XPO Logistics, the second-largest less-than-truckload (LTL) provider in North America, plans to invest about US$90 million this year in 770 new tractors for its LTL network 'We're committed to giving our LTL drivers the latest technologies for comfort and safety

GERMAN cargo airline based in Schkeuditz near Leipzig, AeroLogic, a joint venture between DHL Express and Lufthansa Cargo, is to receive a brand-new Boeing 777F freighter in January, increasing its fleet to 11 aircraft

FOLLOWING the termination of overnight freighter operations, South African Airways (S) is preparing to return a 737-300F to Star Air Cargo that was leased under an aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) arrangement

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.

NEW YORK-based Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (WW) will this month put three more Boeing 767 converted freighters into service for Amazon, bringing the number of aircraft in operation for the e-commerce giant to 38

A TOTAL of 351,065 TEU of capacity is anticipated to be scrapped in 2018, which would lead to the net capacity of the global containership fleet expanding by 7.1 per cent provided none of the deliveries of the 78 ships over 10,000 TEU totaling 1.2 million TEU are postponed, forecasts IHS Markit.

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THE total global containership fleet expanded by 3

AN expanded dry bulk fleet helped to almost double Diana Shipping's profit in the second quarter.

AMAZON AIR is expanding its fleet with the lease of 10 Boeing 767-300 freighters from lessor Air Transport Service Group (ATSG), reports London's Air Cargo News