The container shipping unit of COSCO Shipping Group, COSCO Shipping Lines, launched its first direct route connecting the North America East Coast to the West Coast of South America.

Casualties are feared after container vessel Dali struck a support column on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the US city of Baltimore leading to the bridge's complete collapse.

The nearshoring phenomenon and upcoming changes to global carrier alliances are changing the shape and reliability of container trades in the Americas.

Progress towards delivering the IMO’s revised GHG strategy was made at the latest meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, MEPC 81, but plenty remains to be done ahead of the crucial MEPC 83 meeting in spring 2025.

MSC and French freight forwarder Clasquin have agreed on the terms of an acquisition deal announced in December 2023 which will be completed by MSC subsidiary SAS Shipping Agencies Services Sàrl.

AD Ports has invested in an intermodal logistics hub in Georgia which is due to come online later this year.

Taiwan International Port Corporation (TIPC) is planning to upgrade the container terminals at the port of Kaohsiung to strengthen its competitiveness.

CMA CGM has teamed up with newcomer Saudi container line Folk Maritime on an upgraded service between Jeddah and the North Red Sea.

The north Chinese port group of Shandong is enhancing collaboration with leading shipping lines targeting electric vehicles (EVs), lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic products.

For anyone other than those on the receiving end of containership freight rates, the dawn of each new day brings an absence of good news in this increasingly hazardous world.