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Hapag-Lloyd orders 150,000 TEU

News14 Apr 2021

Carrier spends US$550M on one of its biggest container orders to date and continues its move to steel flooring. ...

News4 Nov 2019

Guangdong Xinhui CIMC Special Transportation Equipment Co. Ltd. (XCSE) has developed a new Flatrack hinge that closes automatically when the...

News30 Aug 2019

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is to supply DP World with a total of 15 Kalmar RTGs for the Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT) ...

News31 Jan 2019

The Institute of Container Lessors (IICL) has developed a new toolkit for measuring roof dents and bows....

News1 Apr 2018

Erik Kjellner, CEO of Norcomp Nordic AB, believes that the use of recycled plastic has a future as an alternative material to plywood, bambo...

News1 Apr 2018

Mahlstedt GmbH, a forwarding company based in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, has added 30 new Kögel Port 40 Simplex container chassis to its f...

News1 Oct 2017

Container manufacturers have transitioned to waterborne coatings, but a winter test is still to come for the coating supply chain....

News21 Mar 2016

US paint supplier to acquire Valspar for US$11.3 billion, creating the world’s largest coatings company...

News1 Oct 2015

Invented in Australia by Andrew Ryan, the Ryan Key twistlock removal safety device has won a Lloyd’s List Global Shipping Award for Innova...

News1 Jun 2015

Kögel has introduced a lightweight container chassis, designated Port 40 Light, to provide operators with higher payload capabilities....

News1 May 2015

In its latest review of the container industry’s long running ‘transition’ to waterborne (WB), coatings the Container Owners Associati...

News1 May 2015

ICTSI has announced it will implement a container booking system (CBS) from Australia’s 1-Stop to manage truck calls at its flagship Manil...

News1 Nov 2014

The Container Industry Association’s (COA) annual general meeting in Rotterdam this month produced a lively discussion on why container ow...

News1 Oct 2014

Global coatings supplier Hempel has launched Hempadur Avant-Guard, a range of three new anti-corrosive zinc primers aimed at ensuring better...

News23 Jun 2014

Bill Brassington of ETS Consulting outlines imminent changes to the International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC)....