Hamburg Süd is implementing changes to its West Coast South America (WCSA), Caribbean and Central America markets to/from Northern Europe, from January 2022.

With vessels queued outside Californian ports for weeks the average transit time from China to the US West Coast have more than doubled.

An MSC containership, which dragged anchor back in January in San Pedro Bay, is been investigated by the US Coast Guard (USCG) in relation to the 2 October pipeline spill off the Californian coast.

Container volume at eight major Chinese ports increased 8.3% year-on-year in late September.

Cosco Shipping Lines, the container shipping unit of Cosco Shipping, is launching new transpacific express services from China to Prince Rupert and Los Angeles.

Hapag Lloyd has temporarily re-routed a European-US container service through the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport).

The UK’s Port of Felixstowe is the latest to be hit by congestion and delays could impact up to GBP2bn ($2.72bn) in imports.

OOCL is launching a new transpacific) service connecting China and Prince Rupert, Canada.

MSC and the China Waterborne Transport Research Institute, an agency under China’s Ministry of Transport, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly promote decarbonisation and sustainable development of the shipping industry.

P&I insurers and their US-based lawyers are said to be ‘gravely concerned’ over the outcomes and scale of claims from damage to the San Pedro Bay Pipeline off the Californian coast, thought to have been ruptured by a ship’s anchor.