The $7bn logistical task of withdrawing US military equipment from Afghanistan will involve Maersk, APL and Hapag-Lloyd.

South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) won a $700m order to build five 18,400 teu containerships for China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL).

High profile orders of ultra large container vessels could be negatively affecting container rates right now, Drewry Maritime Research has claimed.

New York: Maersk’s Group's ceo Nils Andersen (pictured), visiting New York this week, was honored by ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ marketplace, adjacent to the iconic Times Square.

The administrator of the Panama Canal Jorge L. Quijano has defended its pricing structure as “fair”, and said the decision by Maersk Line to switch its Asia – US East Coast services to transiting the Suez Canal would hurt shippers.

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...

Maersk Line may not be big enough to control the container shipping market in the way dominant players do in some other industries but when its bosses speak the market does sit up and listen.

Naples: The extensive repair work necessary to rectify damage related to the flooding of Emma Maersk's engine room will be undertaken at Fincantieri's repair yard in Palermo, Sicily.