Cosco Shipping orders six 3,000-TEU containerships for CNY1.98 billion, enhancing its fleet and adhering to governance standards.

DANISH shipping giant, Maersk Line is increasing the size of individual ships from 8,600 TEU to 10,000 TEU by raising the wheelhouse and adding another layer of containers on deck.

CONSTRUCTION is underway on Liverpool2, Peel Ports' GBP300 million (US$467.8 million) in-river container terminal to enable 13,500-TEU ships to call

TAIWAN's Evergreen has o 2,800-TEUers rdered ten 2,800-TEU class B-type ships from Japanese shipbuilder Imabari, after placing a similar order last month at CSBC back home.

THE Port of Melbourne has docked its biggest box ship ever - the 10,662-TEU Ural, reports the UK's Port Strategy

THE first deepsea container terminal in northern Vietnam, the Haiphong International Container Terminal (HICT) that can handle 14,000-TEUers, has opened for business, reports London's Loadstar

SINGAPORE's Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has exercised an option that adds a further six 15,000 TEU containerships to five that it ordered in November 2017 from South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (HSHI)

KUWAIT's United Arab Shipping Co has said it is interested in ordering ships up to 18,000 TEU in the second quarter.

COPENHAGEN's AP Moller-Maersk, owner of the world's biggest container line, says its order for twenty 18,000-TEU vessels will not flood the market with super megaships, as rival say but rather 13,000 TEUers will become common.

THE Shanghai Shipping Exchange?s China Containerised Freight Index (CCFI) shows that US destination trade lanes posted the strongest weekly growth, with the west coast spot rates up 3

PANAMA's expanded canal expansion programme will now be able to accommodate 13,000-TEU ships when it was only expected to handle 10,000-TEUers before, reports London's SupplyChainStandard.

MALAYSIA's MTT Shipping Sdn Bhd wants to buy two ships in the 1,200-TEU range to exploit the growing west-east Malaysian trade, adding to the five already in service, reports Bernama news agency.