Here’s something that should raise a chuckle: Indonesia has 141 ports handling international cargo and they all want to be hub ports.

Shippers and the carriers on the transpacific have been at each other’s throats for as long as we can remember, but this year is different.

Angry shippers have been slugging container carriers lately, prompting Gianluigi Aponte to come out swinging.

At least that’s according to an investment banker, so any resemblance between his prediction and reality may be purely coincidental.

The complete disruption of global trade is just one sunken tanker away.

Contract negotiations in the transpacific trade have started between container lines and their customers, but the difference this year is that both parties are coming at each other from mutually exclusive positions.

China is on a bulk-building spree in a bold bid to take the extreme volatility out of the market.

There was only one big surprise in Hong Kong yesterday as heavyweight port operators released their annual results, and it had nothing to do with the maritime business.