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.

Following the accident involving the YM Witness which demolished several cranes in the Port of Evyap the Taiwanese line says there were no injuries or pollution as a result.

As shipowners and charterers avoid the Red Sea due to Houthi attacks and divert via the Cape of Good Hope they are faced with a hefty additional fuel bill.

US-based Seaboard Marine has upgraded a US Gulf Coast service with additional port calls in Central America targeting a growing trade in US-sourced raw materials.

A huge surge in trade between Mexico and the US in the last 12 months could be a sign of things to come as Presidential hopeful Donald Trump threatens more than a 60% tariff on Chinese imports.

As the spring 2025 deadline for turning IMO’s revised GHG strategy into regulation approaches, progress was made last week at meeting 16 of the Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (ISWG GHG 16).

With returns sliding back to pre-Covid levels after the supercharged pandemic period shipping lines are looking to control costs again to keep their heads above water.