Container lines

Brazilian regulators cleared the final hurdle for Maersk Line's $4.3 million acquisition of Hamburg Süd.

Deployment of extra-loader vessels contribute to slight drop in spot rates this week in eastbound Pacific

The Port of Santos may have to close for lengthy periods to lift some of the missing containers from the seabed.

US imports from Asia handled by NVOCCs increased 15 percent in the 12 months ending June 30.

In the past five days, 20 ships of 22,000 TEU have been ordered by two carriers.

Only their ability of container carriers to invest will lead to meaningful progress that will deliver benefits to the wider market.

It has been nine months since a shipper coalition submitted a petition seeking guidance on the matter.

“What we have seen this first half of this year is a massive reefer container shortage.”

“Shippers are forced to pay extra for each day vessels wait in the port.”

Will carriers be able to better manage space on ships from Europe to Asia in the first quarter of 2018?

Container shipping’s supply and demand gap is set to converge in 2018.

“Today the challenge is not the technology.”

Success or failure of rate increases less important to carriers than the sustained profitability of the spot rate, believes Drewry.

CMA CGM on Friday confirmed its order of nine 22,000-TEU ships in a report noting the Marseille-based carrier posted a second quarter gain in net income.

Spot rates in eastbound trans-Pacific turn higher in harbinger of busy month ahead.

“The pre-Golden Week holiday volume spike is bleak this year.”

Inland warehouses and trucking loom as a potential weak link in the supply chain of US cotton exporters preparing for their biggest harvest in years.

US maritime regulators on Thursday voted to allow ocean carrier members of THE Alliance to form an emergency fund.

Two of the world’s largest shipping container operators now contribute information to the database, which has more than 1,000 users.

The pricing discipline that has worked so effectively in pushing up carrier profits this year is being threatened by a looming rate war.

Shippers are seeing little improvement in service levels from the new container shipping alliances.

Carriers in eastbound Pacific appear poised to raise rates before Golden Week.

Carrier profitability is broad based and 2017 is shaping up to be a good year, but the imbalance between supply and demand will put the brakes on the improving business.

Armed with millions of dollars of venture capital, a wave of startups has emerged, offering products that variously promise to remove the kinks in the supply chain, improve efficiency, enable shippers to more easily track their cargo, and, ultimately, reduce cost.

Hurricane Irma’s arrival this weekend threatens to roil US supply chains and seriously impact trucking rates.

An unexpected surge in imports in July will take some of the steam out of peak-season volumes this autumn.

Cargo volumes are building, but peak-season cargo rolling and rate hikes are still a couple of weeks away.

The decline in spot rates on Asia-Europe accelerated this week with concerns that the widespread factory closures will result in a muted increase in volume and prices that traditionally occurs before China’s Golden Week holidays in October.

The announcement marks a significant escalation in the size of the ships stopping at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Ports from Miami to Charleston now lie in the Category 5 storm’s projected path.

Blockchain pilot programs have been flourishing this year.

Several South Korean companies have found their Chinese operations boycotted amid the increasingly fraught ties between the two countries.

Container lines are attempting to hike westbound rates on the trans-Atlantic.

The FMC has maintained that the commission has more pressing priorities than clarifying its position on detention and demurrage fees.

With the exception of Africa, call sizes rose in all major world regions.

Terms of the 50-50 joint venture were not disclosed.

Hurricane Irma is the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic since 2005.

Matson has added a port call to its expedited China-Long Beach Express service.

The significant number of mega-ships set to enter Asia-North Europe by the end of 2018 has resulted in capacity upgrates on many services on the trade.

Carriers will find it tough to levy rate hikes with so much capacity awash in the market, SeaIntel says.