Making a big splash with Modpools
NewsModpools, a Canadian company from British Columbia, has come up with a range of hot tubs and swimming pools built inside shipping containers...
Tehuantepec corridor plan revived
NewsThe Mexican Government is eyeing the narrow stretch of land between the Pacific coast port of Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos on the Atlantic ...
CIMC set to launch pallet pooling
NewsIn a further move to develop its own value-added logistics activities and help raise the efficiency of freight distribution in China, CIMC, ...
More testing times for box lessors
NewsThe box leasing sector saw fleet growth stalled by weaker demand and record disposals in 2016, with the demise of Hanjin Shipping a further ...
Putting 34 into 45
NewsECS Containers will present a new 45ft pallet wide container designed to load 34 euro pallets at the Intermodal Exhibition in Rotterdam next...
Box order surge
NewsChinese container manufacturing companies have experienced something of a Q4 2016 surge in orders, with many factories likely to be busy unt...
Getting to grips with flexitanks
NewsNot everyone is convinced by them, but the use of flexitanks continues to grow....
Dry box output in the doldrums
NewsDry freight container builders are facing further difficulties this year, with production having declined to a seven-year low and finished p...
Reefer cargo is hot
NewsThe reefer shipping sector is “providing one of the few growth markets in what promises to be one of the worst lossmaking years for global...
Standards harmonised
NewsIn a move the Container Owners Association (COA) is hailing as a “significant breakthrough”, the two container interchange inspection st...
Waterborne transition underway
NewsSince 1 July, container builders based in southern China have had to use waterborne paints to coat their dry freight containers....
Box prices still dropping
NewsDrewry’s latest “Container Equipment Insight” report shows that dry box prices have fallen to 2002 levels, and are still dropping...
Boxes going waterborne
NewsChina’s main box manufacturers, including CIMC, Singamas, Dong Fang and CXIC, will be using waterborne paints for coating their dry freigh...
Leasing sector heads into the doldrums
NewsThe global box leasing industry suffered a significant setback during 2015, when it purchased proportionally fewer new dry freight container...
MCI-San Antonio ramps up
NewsMaersk Container Industry’s (MCI) new plant in San Antonio, Chile has completed its first commercial orders, and is now working on three f...