Clarkson becomes SPS Overlay licensee

There are shortages in car carrying capacity, especially in China, where the export of electric vehicles has soared in the past two years.

Copenhagen-based Maersk Broker has been sold by the Mc-Kinney Moller family to its management. The move ends months of speculation in which several rival shipbrokers, including London-headquartered Clarksons, had been rumoured to be interested in acquiring the company.

DP World Yarimca and Chery Automotive, the large China-based manufacturer of automobiles, have developed a new racking system that enables 50% more vehicles to be loaded in a container compared with no racking.

One crew member is dead and several others are injured after a fire broke out on a car carrier off the coast of the Netherlands, forcing some seafarers to jump from the vessel. 

18 new Kalmar heavy duty terminal tractors are heading to Australia to service the Spirit of Tasmania Bass Strait ferry service.

FINNSIRIUS, the first of a series of two ro-pax vessels, was delivered at the China Merchants Jinling Shipyard on 18 July 2023.