Profitable secondary trades are starting to flag as capacity flows down from the swamped Asia-Europe and transpacific.

There’s nothing like a ray of sunshine in an otherwise gloomy results season. But a six-fold increase in net profit sent Hutchison Whampoa stocks plummeting as everyone lunged for the sell button.

Carriers attempt to impose rates rises and surcharges to compensate for falling profitability and an uncertain finish to the year.

The fight against piracy took an ominous turn in Hong Kong this week.

Improving demand and a shortage of containers has been good for Singamas, as its interim balance sheet reveals.

Slowing consumer demand means fewer retail orders, which means less factory output and not enough cargo to fill container ships.

The days of double-digit growth and rapid expansion are over as mainland ports struggle with external and internal issues.

Flagging consumer demand in the traditional markets of the US and Europe is making the economies in Asia looks to each other, creating robust trade in the region.

In the parallel container ports and shipping universe, they are big believers in the old Field of Dreams principle.