Yang Ming enhances its intra-Asia network with new 2,800TEU vessel
Yang Ming has announced it will deploy its new container ship, YM Constancy, on its intra-Asia service JTS from 1 April. YM Constancy will sail...
Hapag-Lloyd acquires Africa container specialist NileDutch
Hapag-Lloyd has announced the acquisition of all shares in the Dutch container shipping company Nile Dutch Investments B.V. (NileDutch). The German carrier and NileDutch have...
New joint container service links Asia and Africa
Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Gold Star Line (GSL) will launch a joint service at the end of March, which will link several...
Four more PIL ships sold to Briese Schiffahrts
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Pacific International Lines (PIL) has continued to sell assets, even after a Singapore court approved its debt restructuring plan, with four more container-carrying multi-purpose...
CMA CGM has bright 2021 outlook as profits soar
Increased rates and a major boost in demand during the second half of 2020 have led CMA CGM, like the vast majority of the...
Maersk to launch new Pacific service
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Denmark-based Maersk Line has announced that it intends to add a new Transpacific service rather than continue with ad hoc sailings and extra loaders...
Departure of ONE Apus delayed by one day
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The ONE Apus, which was due to leave Kobe Port in Japan today, is now scheduled to depart on 16 March at around 1...
MSC announces new Asia-USEC service
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced the launch of a new weekly service, the Palmetto, from Asia to the US East Coast. The new service...
Digitalisation: An arrow in shipping’s quiver or hackers’ ace in the hole?
Digitalisation in the maritime sector remains a double-edged sword, because while technology and digital tools support the supply chain significantly, these same tools have...
TS Lines acquires more ships and exercises newbuilding options
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TS Lines has bought another pair of 1,730TEU ships from German tonnage provider Reederei Nord Klaus E Oldendorff. The Taiwanese intra-Asia carrier was identified by...
Evergreen unit orders more containers
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Evergreen Marine Corporation’s container leasing and warehousing subsidiary, Evergreen International Storage & Transport Corporation (EITC), will order another 18,000 containers from its Malaysian factory,...
China’s largest river- boxship makes maiden voyage
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Wuhan Port and Shipping Development Group’s 1,124TEU Han Hai 5 Hao, China’s largest and most efficient river ship, completed its maiden when it arrived...
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Singaporean state investment firm Temasek mum on PIL bailout
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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...
