Transhipment swings and roundabouts
NewsTranshipment activity may be slowing down as operational, commercial and fiscal factors combine to make the concept less efficient and accep...
Japanese trio to merge container lines
NewsJapan’s three main ocean carriers – Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) NYK Line and K Line – are spinning off and merging their container shipping...
Japanese carriers to merge container business
NewsK Line, MOL and NYK Line have agreed to establish a new joint venture company that will integrate their container shipping and global (exclu...
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...
Navigating choppy waters
NewsDespite slowing growth in global trade and a liner shipping sector intent on getting better deals from vendors, global terminal operators co...
Chinese fine container and car carriers
NewsThe Chinese Government has imposed fines on several of the world’s leading container and car carrying lines....
Dry box building goes into freefall
NewsAll is pointing downwards for the world’s dry freight box building industry as pricing, production and order volumes have slipped in recen...
Carriers to exit Oceania trades
NewsA combination of intense competition, modest cargo volumes, massive over-tonnaging and falling freight rates is resulting in a number of ope...
2M and G6 close transatlantic loops
NewsFalling cargo volumes, particularly eastbound, and the fear of a deteriorating supply/demand balance resulting in further declines in freigh...
MOL’s liner division in the doldrums
NewsWhereas Mitsui OSK Line’s (MOL) liner arm suffered further losses in the 2014/15 fiscal year ending 31 March 2015, both K Line and NYK Lin...
ASEAN aspirations abound
NewsDespite weakening economic growth and lower investment levels in several countries in 2014, the ASEAN trading bloc offers considerable poten...
Penang ups productivity
NewsThe Port of Penang states that it is now averaging 27 moves/crane hour compared to 18 in the early part of 2014, an improvement of 30%, whil...
Hapag-Lloyd/NYK partner with GSL
NewsHapag-Lloyd and NYK Line have ended a near four-year working arrangement with China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) on the Asia/West Africa ...
Four in for Tanjung Priok
NewsNew partnership to build 1.5M TEU terminal at Tanjung Priok, Jakarta...
Birth of a new order
NewsThe start of 2015 will signal the beginnings of a new structure for the container shipping industry, as services across the world’s main e...