Container ships

By Ira Breskin (gCaptain) – The marine insurance industry is preparing for an expected increase in multi-dimensional risk across all product lines. This is the consensus of many panelists speaking on Tuesday at the Americas Marine…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A crew member who stabbed his supervisor to death on a container ship bound for Los Angeles pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge that could carry a life sentence, prosecutors said . Michael Dequito Monegro,…

Egypt's Suez Canal recorded its highest monthly revenue to date in April, raking in $629 million in vessel transit fees, the waterway's managing authority said on Sunday, as traffic rebounded following the impact of the…

Mayflower on its attempt to cross the Atlantic in…

Gothenburg Port Authority has published general methanol operating regulations for ship-to-ship bunkering with the ambition to become the leading renewable methanol bunkering hub in Northern Europe. By 2030,…

Zhi Fei has entered commercial services after…

The pandemic has led to two very different stories about the food industry. On the one hand, we have seen stories of distressed farmers dumping surplus produce they could not sell, with some Malaysian farmers having to waste 70% of their…

Solve marine workers assembling a floating boom on the water in Alaska. Resolve has invested heavily in state-of-the-art equipment and technology over the past year. Photo courtesy of Resolve Marine. Jhe word…

There is no global trade embargo on Russia. No penalties prohibiting shipments of most consumer goods or manufacturing components. But you don't need to target the cargo itself to throw a wrench into a supply chain. Russia's…

Righting the Ever Forward: A giant container ship (whose sister stuck the Suez) is FINALLY refloated a month after reaching the Chesapeake Bay - forcing salvage crews to remove 323 containers to make it lighterThe Ever Forward…

(Courtesy of Port of Helsinki) Boat trips in Helsinki have started to recover from the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The war in Ukraine has not yet significantly slowed traffic through Helsinki, and!-->!-->…

The modernization of the terminal is designed to improve Everport's container handling efficiency and capacity, and also allow it to accommodate the anticipated fleet mix of larger vessels that are expected to call at the terminal over…

“For FMCG companies, the short-term trigger may be a moderation in commodity prices and the next trigger level may occur if volume growth resumes. For now, in the medium term, we are negative on the FMCG space,” says Mihir VoraCIO and…

Is weak consumer demand curbing imports, finally reducing port congestion, freeing up ship capacity and driving down ocean spot rates? Is this the beginning of the “great denouement”? Or is the decreasing congestion at West…

Shanghai, home to the world's largest container port, began a two-part lockdown on March 28 and has yet to announce a date for lifting the restrictions.Yang Jianzheng | Visual Group China | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China's Covid controls…

NEW DELHI : Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) handled 5.68 million TEUs (Twenty Foot Equivalent) in FY 2021-22, an increase of 21.55% from 4.68 million of TEUs in 2020-21. This performance is the highest ever…

long beach By Lee Peterson Long Beach Harbor Seventeen years after adopting its famous Green Port Policy, the Port of Long Beach is more committed than ever to making Southern California a cleaner, healthier place to live, work and play.…

Last Sunday we hosted a football party for our high school boys team to celebrate winning the state championship in November. Everyone signed the back of the section,…

Five northern European ports will take the…

The culmination of a three-year investigation has highlighted the important role that the port of Paranaguá, in southern Brazil, plays in the supply of cocaine to Europe, with gangs in close…

The Dyros on charter to Cosco Photo: VesselFinder By Nick Savvides 03/24/2022 Maersk has confirmed that its charter…

Cosco is building two battery-powered electric…

P&O Ferries workers were fired via video message today but some are not taking it lying down and refusing to leave their boat until further talks take placeVideo loadingVideo unavailableThe video will start automatically soon8to…

Willem Marx: Manolo Tersago heads the anti-drug service of Antwerp at the Federal Judicial Police of Belgium.According to him, several factors make Antwerp attractive for smugglers: Its port is a hub for Europe.…

The Port of Long Beach reported Friday that last month was its busiest February on record, with 3.2% more 20-foot equivalent units moved compared to the same month in 2021. The port moved a total of 796,560 units, with…

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By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Prices for low-sulphur bunkers rose another $100 a ton yesterday and, after climbing a third since late February to around $1,000 a ton, are adding millions to the cost of operating the bunker. an ULCV…

March 4, 2022 Over the past year, consumers and businesses have had to adapt to the shortage in ways our region and our country have not seen in some time.Signs that read "Due to supply shortages, some items are temporarily unavailable", or…

A Bloomberg gauge of industrial metals jumped 11% this week, on course for the biggest rise on record. Aluminum hit a new high on Friday, nickel jumped 7.8% to its highest level in a decade and zinc is the most expensive since 2007. It…

The e-methanol plant will supply fuel to Maersk's…

MSC and Maersk follow Ocean Network Express and Hapag Lloyd in stopping freight bookings to and from Russia On Tuesday March 1, the world's two largest container lines temporarily suspended freight shipments to and…

China is the world's largest exporter of containerized goods, produces eight out of 10 new containers, is the world's largest container shipbuilder and operates the fourth largest liner. It's no surprise that China overwhelmingly dominates…

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CMA CGM, with the support of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), has started biofuel bunkering in Singapore as part of its global trial to expand the wider adoption of clean energy. Its 10,640 teu vessel, APL Paris, was the…

HAPAG-LlOYD will launch its new China Germany Express (CGX) service on April 1, 2022, which provides a fast connection from Dachan Bay to Hamburg.Andreas Buetfering, Senior Director of Trade…

Muscat: In line with the official inauguration of Duqm Port, Asyad Ports-Duqm is about to start operation and management of the general cargo terminal which includes three commercial berths in Duqm Port, in line with Asyad Group's strategy…

SEATTLE — Careful observers may have spotted a particularly large vessel passing through Puget Sound early Friday as the MSC Virgo made the final miles of its nearly 30-day voyage from South Korea to Seattle. According to the Northwest…

Guyana's stand is seen at the offshore technology conference as Bharrat Jagdeo, the vice president of the South American nation, told the conference that it would be unfair to ask the developing nation not to develop its burgeoning oil…

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - DNA testing on seized ivory shipments that reveals family ties among African elephants killed for their tusks is helping to identify poaching areas and trafficking networks at the center of an illegal trade…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Port of Savannah added another month to its streak of record freight volumes amid a surge that has forced U.S. seaports to scramble to keep up with demand. The Georgia Ports Authority reported that…

Ports committed to shore power by 2028 for cruise…

February 10, 2022: With Covid now entering an endemic phase, supply chain issues continue to plague the industry.According to an analysis by Sea-Intelligence, the return to pre-pandemic normality would take approximately 8-9 months…

Concordia Maritime aims to perpetuate a great old tradition by planning the conversion of a product carrier into a container ship. The Stena Group company said on Tuesday it was exploring the possibility of upgrading a 65,000 dwt P-Max…

The container ship Songa Cheetah reached the port of Chittagong on Saturday and is expected to depart for Porto di Ravenna (the Port of Ravenna) in Italy on Monday on the first direct commercial cargo voyage from Bangladesh to Europe.…

Published: February 05, 2022 12:30:12 | Update: 05 February 2022 15:54:54 The container ship Songa Cheetah is expected to arrive at Chattogram Port on Saturday and depart Monday for Porto di Ravenna in Italy on the first…

Maersk India By Angelo Mathais, correspondent in India 02/03/2022 Maersk Line appears optimistic after boosting the…

Daniel Yergin discusses global oil demand, the supply chain and inflation during the 'Barron Roundtable'. the we The Department of Agriculture said on Sunday it would help fund a new container yard for agricultural exports at…

(MENAFN-IANS) New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) Adani CMA Mundra Terminal Pvt Ltd (ACMTPL), a joint venture between Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd and CMA Terminals in Mundra, has berthed APL Raffles making it the…

The tankers' association supports amendments to the EU ETS (file photo)…

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UK-based LNG junior Avenir LNG has sold its 20,000 m3 Avenir Allegiance LNG bunker vessel to Shanghai SIPG Energy Service (SSES). Courtesy of Avenir LNG Avenir LNG has entered into a Long Term Cooperation Agreement (JCA) with…

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Australia will provide $580 million in funding to support the repair and upgrading of several key ports in Papua New Guinea, many of which are nearing the end of their lifespan. Australia's timely support will help the Ports Corporation of…

San Antonio, TX, Jan. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- US Global Investors, Inc. (Nasdaq: GROW) (“the Company”), a registered investment advisory firm that focuses on specialty markets around the world , is delighted to announce that her US…

The container ship Maersk Hamburg Photo: Courtesy of Tianjin Port GroupDespite the latest outbreak of Omicron variant in Tianjin Municipality in northern China, Tianjin Port has achieved a new world record for berthing time efficiency…

By Gavin van Marle 01/14/2022 The extraordinary lengths operators have to travel to clear congested container ports was highlighted this…

The inverse relationship between trade price and overall service continues to reverse – and don't expect that trend to change anytime soon. Despite the rhetoric, the historic amount of imports from Asia negates any reported…

Container ships have more than doubled in size over the past decade to keep pace with global trade. To make room for "mega" ships, Congress has allocated billions…

Port of New York and New Jersey works to remove small but rare container ship bottleneck anchored off Long…

A seaport in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Despite the complicated developments of the COVID-19

HOULTON, Maine (WAGM) -Imagine spending up to $ 15,000 or more on a new snowmobile without even being able to ride it. In this week's Sledding the County, Brian Bouchard examines how supply chain disruptions have affected the snowmobile…

December 29, 2021: Reliability and developing a good relationship with carriers, viewing it as a strategic partnership rather than a game that can be won by ensuring the lowest price will isolate shippers from some of the risks and…

North Carolina's two coastal ports have largely avoided the major backups and delays seen at other ports across the country, and they are trying to make it known that they have room to accommodate…

About 40 miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the Gourley family's fifth generation dairy farm, a tree stands so tall it still contains the lights that were on some 20 Christmases past. The lights remain on the tree as it outgrown the…

Paolo Topic has been fitted with solar panels and a hybrid energy management system (Marfin)…

The Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC) said it was working with relevant stakeholders to end collection of container depots from importers and agents by shipping companies. The Executive Secretary / CEO of the NSC, the Hon. Emmanuel…

The chaos of the supply chain has left many items stranded, so they may arrive too late for the holidays. But eventually everything will reach its destination,…

David Erlanger's warehousing and distribution business in Riverside, Calif. Is full of boxes of wine glasses, luggage, linens and more. Once the…

California startup H2 Clipper wants to bring back airships filled with hydrogen, saying they can unlock fully green intercontinental cargo operations carrying 8-10 times the payload of any cargo plane over 6,000 miles, to a quarter of the…

By Mike Wackett 12/13/2021 MSC's move last month of its autonomous trans-Pacific service from Santana from the U.S. west coast to the…

U.S. retail container import levels remain on track to end 2021 with both the largest volume and the fastest growing on record, amid problems and disruption in the supply chain. supply due to a pandemic, according to the most recent issue…

The study “Maritime Safety 2012-2021: A Decade of Progress” concludes that decarbonization and digitization both present new risks associated with alternative fuel technologies, such as the risks of…

WASHINGTON - The number of container ships bound for America's busiest port complex has risen to nearly 100 under a new counting method, underscoring the extent of the economic stalemate the Biden administration is trying to!-->!-->…

Dive brief: Ty Inc. ships its products by air for the holidays to avoid port congestion, and the toy maker has already funded 283 cargo flights to the United States since October. according to a press release…

Freighters load and unload containers at the Qingdao Port Foreign Trade Container Terminal in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, November 11, 2021.Yu Fangping | Costphoto | Barcroft Media | Getty ImagesPorts and businesses have…

This article was written for Mobility Weekly, our free weekly newsletter. Sign up for a subscription here. It's difficult to decarbonize, it's often forgotten and it matters for more annual carbon emissions than air transport: Sea…

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MOBILE, Alabama (WKRG) - Nothing is more stressful than receiving a notification that your package has arrived, only to find out that it has been slipped at your door. This is especially difficult if it is a gift from a loved one…

PictureMigrants from another boat were rescued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and taken to Dungeness on England's south-east coast on Wednesday. Credit...Ben Stansall / Agence France-Presse - Getty ImagesThe day after at least…

Aspen Morlock, 2, and Haidyn Morlock, 4, buy Christmas trees with their family on Monday, November 22, 2021 at the Bell Nursery in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / DNA) In a national trend the Grinch would appreciate, summer drought and extreme…