The latest inane utterance by South Korea’s president adds to our suspicions that the sinking of its warship a couple of months ago had nothing to do with North Korea.

With so much idle capacity and arriving newbuilds, container lines will be fighting over each other to deploy ships in areas where business is good.

When it comes to financial results, the world’s container lines sure know how to take shareholders on a wild, wild ride.

A ‘stern warning’ is the namby pamby response when a boot on the throat is required.

When you have 140,000 vessels calling at your port every year, sooner or later some of them will bump into each other.

The container market is improving every month and as the peak season approaches, we can’t help wondering which carrier will be the first to break ranks on slow steaming.