Australia to study cleaner container structures
NewsThe Australian government is funding research to investigate if the structure of shipping containers can be modified to reduce the possibili...
Box builder issues profit warning
NewsSingamas expects its H1 2023 profit to fall by approximately 74% year-on-year....
Folding box and Actuator
NewsUS-based GenFlat has launched a new folding container design. Folding container concepts are well-known in the market, but the GenFlat desig...
Singamas on the M&A trail
NewsBox builder wants to use its healthy financial position to “actively seek new M&A opportunities” as it looks to further diversify into ...
Singamas issues second profit warning
NewsContainer manufacturer downgrades its profit expectations for 2022 for the second time....
CakeBoxx sets up in Denmark
NewsTwo-piece container specialist CakeBoxx Technologies has set up a new operating company in Denmark....
CIMC’s container production drops 47%
NewsCIMC issues profit warning as container output and consolidated results show a steep decline....
China’s box builders’ challenges mount
NewsFalling demand and competitive start-ups from overseas are just some of the challenges that China’s box builders need to confront....
Hoa Phat gearing up to produce first containers
NewsVietnam’s new box builder says its containers “will have the same or lower costs” as Chinese-made products....
Moscow acts to prevent “decontainerisation”
NewsInternational economic sanctions against Moscow and subsequent boycotts of Russia’s seaports by global container carriers may lead to an a...
JB Hunt planning huge intermodal expansion
NewsJB Hunt Transport Services Inc and BNSF Railway have announced a joint effort to improve US intermodal capacity that will see JB Hunt add a ...
China’s control over intermodal equipment container production is “deeply concerning”
NewsThat is the overriding message in a report recently published by Carl Bentzel, a commissioner at the Washington (DC)-based Federal Maritime ...
Disquiet over China’s box-building control
NewsA report recently published by Carl Bentzel, a commissioner at the Washington (DC)-based Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), highlights growi...
Booming market continues for Chinese box builders
NewsLast year proved to be a record one for the maritime container and swap body manufacturing industry...
Spreader from FUWA
NewsChina’s Guangdong FUWA Engineering Group Co Ltd has applied for a patent on a ‘utility model’ container spreader. FUWA manufactures re...