In a reversal of its previous ‘business as usual stance’ P&O Ferries has today announced that all its ferries travelling between the UK, Ireland and continental Europe will switch immediately to carrying only freight.

Container lines reduced vessel capacity in the Asia trades by some 23% between mid-January and mid-March this year as smaller vessels were deployed according Ocean Insights (OI).

With the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world, governments and ports in Latin America are taking different measures to deal with the pandemic.

Just as container lines schedules from China seemed to be getting back to normal the 2M Alliance has blanked two Asia – Europe/Med sailings next week as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic starts to hit demand in western nations.

Immediately after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day total lockdown of the nation on 24 March the country’s Directorate-General of Shipping (DGS) moved to impose a 14-day quarantine on shipping vessels arriving from any port in...

Wallenius Wilhelmsen has started temporary layoffs for about 2,500 production workers in the US and Mexico due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

Heavily ‘front-loaded’ deliveries of dry bulk newbuilds will have a chance for rebalancing to avert an oversupply market in light of the escalating outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), according to Maritime Strategies International (MSI).

According to the China Port & Harbor Association, the container volume of eight major ports increased 6.2% last week.

Measures introduced by Greece and other countries to contain the spread of COVID-19 are yet to impact trade in Greece’s main port Piraeus, though the measures include the shutdown of a number of retail businesses, and a ban on cruise liners...

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is seeking a $1.9bn government bailout as traffic plummets amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.