Regions

Container lines are blanking very few sailings in the traditional slack season around Chinese New Year, as they continue to try and cope with unprecedented demand and disruption caused by empty container shortages.

As Scorpio Bulkers continues its pivot to the offshore wind sector the company has announced plans to change its name to Eneti Inc.

SSA Marine’s Oakland International Container Terminal (OICT) has received three quay cranes, the largest on the US West Coast.

The Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) in the Philippines has welcomed the start of a new Regional Container Lines’ (RCL) service connecting the Philippines’ Visayas and Mindanao regions to Asia and the Middle East via Singapore.

AET has taken delivery of a new second generation, fuel efficient suezmax shuttle tanker for long term charter to Royal Dutch Shell.

Australian maritime unions have called on the country’s government act immediately to declare seafarers as “key workers”.

Shanghai port posted a new record container volume of 43.5m teu in 2020, retaining the title of the world’s busiest container port for the 11th year in a row.

A bunker tanker NewOcean 6 operating in the Port of Singapore has been quarantined after nine Covid-19 cases among its crew.

ICTSI subsidiary Specialised Container Terminal (TECII) Contecon Manzanillo, in Mexico, closed 2020 with a record volume of just over 1m teu up 1.03% compared to 998,006 teu the year before.

The Isle of Man Ship Registry (IOMSR) has appointed its first permanent representative in China in the person of Jonathan Kingdon, an experienced naval architect, newbuilding project manager and Mandarin speaker.