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Piraeus Port caught between a rock and a hard place

News10 Oct 2024

Piraeus Port is currently navigating significant pressures from ongoing diversion of vessels around the Cape of Good Hope and union criticis...

Carriers invoke Force Majeure as ships begin to pile up off East and Gulf coasts

News3 Oct 2024

Container shipping companies, including CMA CGM, Ocean Network Express (ONE), and COSCO, are invoking force majeure due to the impacts of ...

Drewry: PSA to overtake COSCO in terminal capacity by 2028

News26 Sep 2024

Drewry's latest report predicts PSA will surpass COSCO Shipping in terminal capacity by 2028, reshaping the top of the global container term...

Maersk closes deal for Hamburg Süd

News1 Dec 2017

On 30 November 2017, Maersk Line officially completed its transaction with Germany’s Oetker Group and took full control of Hamburg Süd. T...

Europe/Med express service from Asia trio

News1 Nov 2017

Two Taiwanese carriers and one based in mainland China have teamed up to start a weekly liner service that connects Northern Europe (includi...

Controlling the cargo ways

News1 Jul 2017

Already the world’s manufacturing hub, it seems that China is now keen to control a larger slice of the globe’s main container corridors...

Florens adds boxes

News1 Jul 2017

This month, China Cosco Shipping Corporation announced that its leasing arm, Florens Container Investment, is to purchase 154,000 used conta...

China pulls the world’s strings

News1 Jul 2017

China is really starting to flex its financial muscles as it extends its global influence in shipping, ports and transport in general. In co...

Uncertainty in the Middle East

News1 Jun 2017

Political decisions can have a major bearing on economic development, investment and trade, and events in the Middle East over the past year...

Chinese ports on song

News1 May 2017

China’s leading 10 container ports handled 5.4% more cargo in the first four months of 2017 than they did in the corresponding period of 2...

Maintaining positive momentum

News1 May 2017

Benelux ports have enjoyed a generally good start to the year, and have seen their share of Northern Europe’s container business rise....

OOCL/CCSC start Europe/Turkey link

News1 Apr 2017

OOCL and China Cosco Shipping Company (CCSC), which are both members of the recently inaugurated Ocean Alliance, have started a new service ...

Seeking remedies for growing pains

News1 Feb 2017

How might the Year of the Rooster turn out for companies engaged in China’s container shipping, logistics and ports/terminals industries?....

Middle East stays resilient

News1 Nov 2016

Despite the slowdown in trade, new port and transport infrastructure projects in the Middle East are generally progressing, even if on revis...

Box order surge

News1 Nov 2016

Chinese container manufacturing companies have experienced something of a Q4 2016 surge in orders, with many factories likely to be busy unt...

LinerGrid in the cloud

News1 Sep 2016

Lars Jensen the ex-Maersk Line executive and one of the founders of SeaIntel Maritime Analysis, is one of a number of seasoned maritime/line...

Piraeus Port caught between a rock and a hard place

Carriers invoke Force Majeure as ships begin to pile up off East and Gulf coasts

Drewry: PSA to overtake COSCO in terminal capacity by 2028

Maersk closes deal for Hamburg Süd

Europe/Med express service from Asia trio

Controlling the cargo ways

Florens adds boxes

China pulls the world’s strings

Uncertainty in the Middle East

Chinese ports on song

Maintaining positive momentum

OOCL/CCSC start Europe/Turkey link

Seeking remedies for growing pains

Middle East stays resilient

Box order surge

LinerGrid in the cloud

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