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New logistics park for Dammam

News1 Nov 2023

Mawani (Saudi Ports Authority) and Saudi Global Ports (SGP), which is a joint venture between the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), Singap...

Global equipment pool to decline this year

News1 Nov 2023

The global pool of dry freight containers is expected to fall in 2023 as ocean carriers and lessors dispose of surplus units that have built...

Hapag-Lloyd’s smart container programme is on schedule

News1 Nov 2023

Hapag-Lloyd, which is leading the liner shipping industry when it comes to fitting smart devices to its dry freight containers, is pressing ...

Symcon delivers boxes to first overseas customer

News1 Sep 2023

Symcon Industries Private Ltd, which started manufacturing ISO maritime containers in Ahmedabad, western India, just over 12 months ago, has...

Container builders feeling bruised

News1 Sep 2023

This year looks as if it will be the quietest year for container production since 2009, with the output of dry freight standard, dry freight...

Specials provide some hope for container builders

News1 Sep 2023

After the surge in output in 2021, the past 18 months have proved very challenging for manufacturers of containers, and particularly of stan...

China’s box builders’ challenges mount

News1 Oct 2022

Falling demand and competitive start-ups from overseas are just some of the challenges that China’s box builders need to confront....

Lessors’ reefer buying takes a dip

News1 Feb 2018

After several years of strong expansion, the reefer leasing industry grew more modestly in 2017, and new investment fell to its lowest level...

Enter Best Gold Corp

News1 Dec 2017

A new container leasing company called Best Gold Container Corporation Ltd (BG) has been formed in Hong Kong by industry veterans Jason Chan...

CIMC reports spike in box building

News3 Nov 2017

Revenue at the world’s biggest box builder jumps 54% in the first three quarters of this year as container production more than doubled....

Maersk Container Industry appoints new CEO

News3 Nov 2017

Sean S. Fitzgerald will take over as Chief Executive Officer of MCI on 1 January 2018....

Reefer box builders regain momentum

News1 Oct 2017

The current outlook for reefer manufacturing is increasingly upbeat, after more than a year of uncertainty and weak demand....

Another testing year for dry box builders

News1 Oct 2017

Dry freight container manufacturers have faced a difficult 2017, with the challenge of switching to waterborne paints coinciding with a shar...

Putting the gloss on the box

News1 Oct 2017

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

Buss deal

News1 Aug 2017

Textainer’s managed fleet of reefer and dry containers has grown by 182,000 TEU, following the acquisition of the Magellan Mar...

Making a big splash with Modpools

News1 Jul 2017

Modpools, a Canadian company from British Columbia, has come up with a range of hot tubs and swimming pools built inside shipping containers...

New logistics park for Dammam

Global equipment pool to decline this year

Hapag-Lloyd’s smart container programme is on schedule

Symcon delivers boxes to first overseas customer

Container builders feeling bruised

Specials provide some hope for container builders

China’s box builders’ challenges mount

Lessors’ reefer buying takes a dip

Enter Best Gold Corp

CIMC reports spike in box building

Maersk Container Industry appoints new CEO

Reefer box builders regain momentum

Another testing year for dry box builders

Putting the gloss on the box

Buss deal

Making a big splash with Modpools

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Heavy transport vessel runs aground off Taiwan

Valencia resumes operations in aftermath of deadly flooding in Eastern Spain

Gemini network rollout to take 13 weeks, says Maersk CEO

First ship-to-ship methanol bunkering for South Korea

Britain shifts radically to a tax and spend economy

New logistics park for Dammam

Global equipment pool to decline this year

Hapag-Lloyd’s smart container programme is on schedule

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Heavy transport vessel runs aground off Taiwan

Valencia resumes operations in aftermath of deadly flooding in Eastern Spain

Gemini network rollout to take 13 weeks, says Maersk CEO

First ship-to-ship methanol bunkering for South Korea

Britain shifts radically to a tax and spend economy

Winners of US$ 2.9b Clean Ports Program announced

Port of Montreal longshore workers target Termont in latest strike round

APM Terminals Maasvlakte II orders up to 71 Lift AGVs from Konecranes

Montreal port labour dispute continues with new strike

Higher order intake in port solutions boosts Konecranes’ Q3 profit