Shipping Lines

A growing number of major shippers and carriers are pledging that they will not use Arctic shipping routes.

Container line MSC is re-routing some vessels from French ports due to ongoing industrial action in the country which has paralysed multiple modes of transportation.

Container line Ocean Network Express (ONE) is to offer a new service linking South Korea and North Vietnam.

Vincent Clerc has been promoted to run AP Moller - Maersk’s core ocean and logistics business in a newly created ceo position, which follows coo Soren Toft quitting to join MSC, as the Danish group makes changes to its executive board.

More than 10% of the world’s containership capacity will be fitted with scrubbers by January 2020 when IMO’s global 0.5% fuel sulphur cap comes into effect, according to analyst Alphaliner.

Scrubber retrofits have taken out some 839,100 teu of containership capacity, or 3.6% of the fleet, according to analyst Alphaliner.

Hamburg Süd has rolled out a new remote container management (RCM) system for customers to monitor their reefer container shipments.