Bamboo poised to top hardwood

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Bamboo/hybrid materials are set to take over from tropical hardwoods as the main construction components in container flooring....

Going up in the world?

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The sky’s the limit for container terminals, especially in ports where land is at a premium....

Making gains, but at a price

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Strong demand is expected to increase dry freight box production by 15-20% in 2014, compared to the 2012-13 average, but new box prices rema...

Towards better boxes

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Smart, lightweight, green boxes are the future. At least that is what Shi Yan Qiu, secretary general of the China Container Industry Associa...

Singamas issues profit warning

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In a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, The Board of Directors of Singamas Container Holdings, the world’s second biggest box build...

MCID to go 100% waterborne

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Maersk Container Industry (MCI) has announced that it will abandon the use of solvent-borne coatings at its dry freight container manufactur...

Singamas issues profit warning

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Hong Kong-listed Singamas Container Holdings, the world’s second largest container manufacturer, has warned that it expects to record a si...

Tough going for dry freight box builders

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After experiencing a short-lived production surge in mid-2012, the world’s dry freight container manufacturing industry is again facing to...

CAI to buy managed container portfolio

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CAI International has reached conditional agreement with an Austrian KG fund to buy around 71,000 TEU of standard dry freight containers tha...

Staxxon folding box approved

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New Jersey-based Staxxon LLC has received a Convention for Safe Containers (CSC) Certificate for its innovative folding ISO container design...

CasCon adds in Vietnam

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CAS Container Corporation (CasCon), which operates Vietnam’s only volume dry freight box building plant in the Hai Duong Shipbuilding Indu...

Dry freight box building ups and downs

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The dry freight container manufacturing industry has enjoyed more than a year of strong demand and high pricing, but production has fallen s...

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