CMA CGM increases Asia charges
CMA CGM has announced several peak season surcharges (PSS) from India and Pakistan to Latin America, effective from late June and July. The French carrier...
Chittagong ICDs chocked up with export laden boxes
The privately-owned Inland Containers Depots (ICDs) in Bangladesh are choked up with export laden containers amid congestions at transhipment ports and berthing delay at...
CMA CGM buys major Spanish rail operator for €25 million
CMA CGM Group has announced the acquisition of Continental Rail, a private rail operator in Spain, for €25 million (US$29.5 million). The share purchase agreement...
India’s export body calls for indigenous shipping line
India’s top export body Federation of India’s Export Organisations (FIEO) has put a formal request to the Indian government to invest in developing its...
DP World acquires US-based supply chain solutions provider
DP World has announced the acquisition of the US-based global logistics provider, syncreon, for an enterprise value of US$1.2 billion. syncreon focuses on the design...
Maersk announces a couple of new Far East-US services
Maersk will launch two new weekly services, the TPX and TP20, aiming to face the high container demand and operational delays, caused by global...
Sea-Intelligence sees a staggering number of late vessel arrivals
Schedule reliability across the world has been pretty poor throughout the year, as several ports and regions have been severely impacted by port congestion,...
CMA CGM’s EUROSAL service to skip Le Havre call until October
CMA CGM has announced its EUROSAL service will suspend the call at the Port of Le Havre for a period of three months starting...
One seafarer reported missing after engine room fire broke out aboard MSC boxship
MSC Messina has suffered an engine room fire on 25 June, according to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), which reported that in the...
Hapag-Lloyd suspends Bangladesh bookings
Hapag-Lloyd has announced that bookings to Bangladesh are temporarily suspended due to the increased backlog in Singapore for cargo moving into Bangladesh. The German carrier...
Hapag-Lloyd sets fresh Asia rates from July
The German shipping company, Hapag-Lloyd has announced new rates from Asia regions to several destinations across the world, which will take effect in the...
Hapag-Lloyd and ONE join Maersk’s blockchain platform
Two of the largest container carriers in the world, Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express (ONE), have completed integration onto TradeLens, a blockchain platform launched...
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Singaporean state investment firm Temasek mum on PIL bailout
The Singapore government’s investment company Temasek Holdings is remaining tight-lipped on market talk that it may take a stake in embattled liner operator Pacific...
High speed and compromised manoeuvring caused Milano Bridge accident
The container ship Milano Bridge had failed to slow down as it attempted to berth in Busan New Port on 6 April 2020, causing...
Chinese shipyards win giant container ship order
Chinese shipyards will build six 24,232TEU containerships, the largest in the world as of today, that the Bank of Communications Financial Leasing (Bocomm Leasing)...
MSC Rosa M damages Mumbai crane
The 14,000TEU MSC Rosa M has hit and seriously damaged a crane at the DP World terminal in Nhava Sheva, NSIGT in Mumbai, while...
Taking the personal view for crew working on container shipping
Philip Eastell – Founder of Container Shipping Supporting Seafarers – describes the personal side of container operations at a time when crew, affected by...
