Containers

The Transpacific container shipping trade is forecast to contract on an annual basis this year for the first time in a decade, according to analyst Alphaliner.

Intense competition has hit freight rates in the intra-Asian container trades according to longstanding player Regional Container Lines (RCL).

In an unexpected move AP Møller - Maersk coo Søren Toft is leaving the Danish shipping company with ‘immediate effect’.

Thai-listed Regional Container Lines (RCL) has added a direct call between Guangdong, South China and Cambodia.

Classification society ABS has issued what it says is first of its kind ‘Guide for Fire-Fighting Systems for Cargo Areas of Container Carriers’.

The US federal government has awarded the Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) a $20m grant for the reconstruction of more than 100 acres of existing terminal pavement at the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal at Blount Island Marine Terminal.

The 23,656 teu MSC Isabella became the largest containership to call the Port of Singapore when it berthed at the weekend.

The first container feedership retrofitted to run on LNG, Wes Amelie, is set to set another milestone becoming the first vessel to use synthetic natural gas (SNG) produced from renewable energy sources.

Germany’s Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has taken delivery of three new container gantry cranes for its Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) in Hamburg, providing additional capacities for handling ultra large containerships with cargo...

Maersk has announced Wednesday that it will trial a containerised battery system onboard a containership to seek improvement in vessel performance and reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.