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Dry box output in the doldrums

News1 Oct 2016

Dry freight container builders are facing further difficulties this year, with production having declined to a seven-year low and finished p...

News2 Jun 2015

United Arab Shipping Company has ordered 3,500 new reefer containers with reefer machines from Daikin....

News2 Feb 2015

China Shipping makes its first call at BNCT in Busan as part of the Ocean 3 alliance....

News1 Jan 2015

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has announced an order of 2,000 reefer containers with machinery from Daikin and the containers to be ma...

News1 Oct 2014

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) and Hamburg Süd have signed a global cooperation agreement, with each carrier believing that their resp...

News9 Sep 2014

CMA CGM Group has announced three major agreements with CSCL and UASC....

News1 Sep 2014

The much-anticipated announcement finally came in mid-September that France’s leading liner group, CMA CGM, China’s second largest conta...

News30 Jun 2014

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has booked an additional US$50M of component orders in connection with UASC exercising newbuilding options with...

News1 Mar 2014

The opening of London Gateway could signal the beginning of a complete reshaping of shippers’ and service providers’ national distributi...

News1 Feb 2014

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Egypt to develop a second containe...

News19 Dec 2013

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has closed a US$1,251M multi-tranche, syndicated loan facility for the partial financing of 7 x 14,000 T...

News1 Aug 2013

Dubai-based United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) is to invest US$1.4B in new ships, a move that will see it forge an even closer relationship...

News6 May 2013

The order placed with Hyundai Heavy Industries is worth US$700M and means that HHI has reached 61% of its 2013 target of US$13.8B order inta...

News1 Oct 2009

UAE-based Momentum Logistics has signed a contract with United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) to provide the company with logistics services i...

News1 Jan 2009

Vietnamese box builder Vinashin-TGC (VTC) has secured its first export order for 5000 TEU from United Arab Shipping Company (UASC). The firs...