The world’s top 20 container lines on average made a net loss of $16 for every teu they carried over the five year period covering 2008 - 2012, according to a report from consultants Dynamar.

Maersk Line, APL and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) are to cooperate on three Far East – Indian Sub-continent services.

A focus on research and development (R&D), continual refinement of technology and greater innovations are increasingly seen as being the tools required to take on the challenges of the global shipping and maritime industry.

The G6 alliance is to pull eight Asia-Europe sailings over the winter in response to an anticipated fall in demand.

APM Terminals Pipavav has dispatched its first double-stacked high-cube container train, the product of a joint infrastructure project with the Indian Railways and Gujarat Electricity Company.

APL, ANL and Hanjin Shipping are to form a joint weekly service calling at ports throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Things are not looking very pretty for container shipping right now as overcapacity again takes its toll on the market. We have seen a slew of loss making announcements for the first quarter of the year including Hapag-Lloyd, Evergreen, Yang Ming...

The container shipping industry needs to get used to a new normal of higher energy prices, lower capacity utilisation rates and a lower rate of growth going forward, according to speakers at the first session of the Sea Asia 2013 conference...

Tokyo: Members of trade organisation G6 alliance have announced the port rotations of their new Trans-Pacific trade service, which is due to commence in May.

Singapore: Global container shipping volumes are expected to grow by 5% in 2013 over the previous year, supported mainly by active trades in intra-Asia and the growing export markets of Latin America, said Kenneth Glenn, president of APL.