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Textainer is the latest leasing company to have a new ownership structure following the decision of its management to sell the company to Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm based in New York, in a deal worth US$7.4B.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has sold an undisclosed number of shares in SeaCube Container Leasing to London-based Wren House Infrastructure Management Limited. The two companies will now operate under a so-called “co-control structure of the leasing company”

ConFoot Ltd has developed a version of its container legs with integrated scales for weighing containers.

ContainerWeight claims to have mapped the tare weights of 99% of the global fleet of shipping containers.

Adding the container fleet of Hyundai Merchant Marine, the BoxTech database now exceeds 11M containers.

Den Hartogh Dry Bulk Logistics has taken delivery of a second batch of 500 special containers built by CIMC for use in its European Bag in Box business