Maersk has recorded the highest percentage capacity growth of any carrier in the intra-European container shipping segment over the past twelve months, increasing deployed capacity by 44% to 146,500 teu …
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MEDLOG, the logistics division of MSC Group, and Shanghai-listed China Master Logistics Co. Ltd. (CMLOG, SSE: 603967) have launched a joint venture operating five cold storage facilities across Shanghai, Tianjin …
SITC International and Wan Hai Lines have both committed to major fleet expansions this month, signalling that mid-tier Asian carriers are ordering through a market downturn rather than retreating from …
Vessel attacks, carrier withdrawals and port-level cargo rationing are compounding across the Gulf, dismantling the region’s container feeder networks and forcing ports to prioritise essential supplies over commercial freight. The …
Container Management has covered the Hormuz crisis extensively since the US-Israeli strikes on 28 February. This article does not revisit that ground. It examines three developments from the past 48 …
Nine days ago, CM identified Salalah as the Middle East’s only functioning large-scale container hub outside both chokepoint risk zones — south of Hormuz, north of Bab el-Mandeb, on open …
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has moved from issuing radio warnings to openly claiming missile and drone strikes on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, marking a dangerous escalation …
The numbers first. ICTSI crossed the US$1bn net income threshold for the first time, reporting earnings of US$1.05bn — up 23% year on year — on revenues of US$3.23bn and …
The four fastest-growing container trade lanes in the world are all related to Africa, according to the latest Container Trade Statistics data for cargo loaded during January. Analysis by Sea-Intelligence …
Panama Ports Company (PPC), a subsidiary of CK Hutchison, has filed an international arbitration claim against the Republic of Panama under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, seeking …
The Strait of Hormuz will dominate container shipping’s crisis agenda for as long as it remains closed, and rightly so. The energy cost shock it is transmitting to Europe — …
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The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following US-Israeli military strikes on Iran has triggered the most severe disruption to Gulf container shipping in decades, with vessel transits through …
The US and Israeli military strikes against Iran that began on 28 February have triggered a simultaneous disruption of both the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, creating a …
Shippers with cargo moving to or from the Persian Gulf face urgent decisions this week. Vessels already in transit may be stranded at shelter ports for an indeterminate period. New …
When the Strait of Hormuz closed, it did not just shut down a shipping lane. It severed the most connected container port in the Middle East from the global liner …
A coalition of 24 US states has filed suit in the Court of International Trade to challenge President Trump’s use of Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to …
When Vespucci Maritime CEO Lars Jensen told the closing session of S&P Global’s TPM conference on 5 March that approximately 2 million teu of containerised cargo was caught up in …
What began as a shipping route disruption has formally crossed into a humanitarian and labour crisis, with international institutions now using the language of war to describe conditions facing civilian …
On 5 March, the International Union of Marine Insurance issued a statement that war risk cover for the Persian Gulf and Red Sea “is and will remain available under specific …
Some coverage of the Hormuz crisis has focused on LNG bunkering supply and terminal operator readiness statements, giving the impression that the impact on container shipping is manageable. The data …
The annual TPM conference in Long Beach has laid bare a growing tension at the heart of ocean carrier strategy: the buffer capacity deployed during the Red Sea crisis is …
QatarEnergy formally declared force majeure on LNG deliveries on 4 March, following the shutdown of its Ras Laffan and Mesaieed facilities after Iranian drone strikes two days earlier. The contractual …
HMM’s onshore labour union has announced plans for a general strike and legal injunctions to block the South Korean government’s push to relocate the carrier’s headquarters from Seoul to Busan. …
When Gemini returned its ME11 service to Suez routing on 3 February, the alliance staked its 2026 network design on a bet that the strait was safe enough to justify …
Colombo has the connectivity. Whether it has the physical capacity to absorb a meaningful share of Jebel Ali’s redirected container traffic is the question carriers are now trying to answer …
CMA CGM has christened the CMA CGM Osmium, a 13,000-TEU dual-fuel methanol container ship built by HD Hyundai Samho in South Korea. The carrier has assigned the vessel to the …
With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed and the Red Sea under renewed attack, the container industry faces a question it has never had to answer at this scale: where …
The simultaneous closure of the Strait of Hormuz and resumption of Houthi attacks in the Bab el-Mandeb has created an unprecedented twin chokepoint crisis, cutting off the Persian Gulf from …
When the Strait of Hormuz closed, it did not just shut down a shipping lane. It severed the most connected container port in the Middle East from the global liner …
Shippers with cargo moving to or from the Persian Gulf face urgent decisions this week. Vessels already in transit may be stranded at shelter ports for an indeterminate period. New …
The US and Israeli military strikes against Iran that began on 28 February have triggered a simultaneous disruption of both the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, creating a …
For the first time in container shipping’s history, both of the Middle East’s critical maritime chokepoints are effectively closed to commercial traffic. The Strait of Hormuz — the sole sea …
Hapag-Lloyd and DSV have signed what they describe as the first framework agreement of its kind to allow multiple sustainable fuel types — not just biofuels — to generate verified …
Walk the halls of any port equipment exhibition today and you will find electric variants of nearly every piece of heavy-duty container-handling machinery on the market. Kalmar offers a battery-electric …
Maersk’s 2026 guidance contains a US$2.5 billion question, and the answer depends on a single variable. The company is forecasting an EBIT range from a US$1.5 billion loss to a …
When CK Hutchison announced in March 2025 that it would sell an 80 per cent stake in 43 container terminals across 23 countries to a BlackRock/TiL consortium for US$22.8bn, the …
APM Terminals has commenced temporary operations at the Port of Balboa on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal, marking the definitive end of CK Hutchison’s nearly three-decade presence at …
The announcement that APM Terminals and Eurogate plan to invest €1bn in upgrading North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven marks the latest move in what is becoming an industry-wide scramble for terminal …
The US Supreme Court has invalidated the tariffs President Donald Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, ruling 6-3 that the 1977 law does not authorise the president …
Hapag-Lloyd’s planned US$4.2bn acquisition of Zim would bring Hong Kong-based subsidiary Gold Star Line under German ownership, potentially resolving the carrier’s long-standing reliance on third-party slot purchases across intra-Asia trades. …
A tech specialist quoted by The Loadstar described the strategy as incremental rather than disruptive. “What Jens [Lund, DSV chief executive] is doing is looking for an exit strategy. It’s …
APM Terminals has agreed to acquire a 37.5% minority stake in DP World’s Southern Container Terminal at Jeddah Islamic Port, marking the Maersk subsidiary’s first entry into the Saudi Arabian …
The Port of Los Angeles had nine container vessels at berth on 18 February. Across the channel, the Port of Long Beach had five. Together, the San Pedro Bay complex …
When dwell times spike at six major container ports simultaneously while freight rates are in their fifth consecutive week of decline, the instinct is to reach for comparisons with 2021. …
The Trump administration released its long-delayed Maritime Action Plan (MAP) on Thursday 13 February, a policy document that revives a controversial proposal to levy per-kilogram fees on imported cargo carried …
The Port of Los Angeles is experiencing a sharp congestion spike, with vessel dwell times rising 91% above the four-week rolling average, according to automatic identification system (AIS) analytics from …
Market Analytics Report Free & Open Access Real-time vessel schedules from every Transnet container terminal show 79 ships carrying 145,000 containers queuing for berths over the next three weeks. Official …
CK Hutchison has warned A.P. Moller-Maersk of legal action if its terminal division, APM Terminals (APMT), moves to assume temporary operation of the Balboa and Cristobal container terminals flanking the …
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