Container Ships News


TMG Delivers Panama Canal Study

Oct 22, 2017

The Maritime Group (TMG)  carried out a pivotal assessment review of the tugboat operations in the new third set of NeoPanamax locks of the $5.25 billion Expanded Panama Canal and made other operational observations. TMG  was intructed…

CMA CGM among the Top Companies for Trainees

Oct 20, 2017

French based CMA CGM Group is one of the world’s largest maritime transport firms. It is also a top company for trainees, a recent survey found.After ranking 11th last year, CMA CGM reached 7th place in the Happy Trainees ranking, which…

Containership Receives a Special Welcome

Oct 20, 2017

The world’s largest containership received a special greeting when it arrived for the first time at Germany’s sole deepwater port. On October 16, EUROGATE welcomed the 21,413 TEU OOCL Germany at its container terminal in Wilhelmshaven, where…

Navios Acquires Two Container Vessels

Oct 19, 2017

Navios Maritime Containers, a growth vehicle dedicated to the container sector, announced today that it has agreed to acquire two 2009-built 4,250 TEU container vessels for an aggregate purchase price of $19.75 million.  The vessels are…

New Container Spreader from Tandemloc

Oct 19, 2017

For years mechanical container spreader frames have been a fixture on jobsites, river ports and any other location that utilizes ISO shipping containers. While container lifting frames are well worth their size and weight in operational cost savings…

Rotterdam Boosts Container Throughput

Oct 18, 2017

The number of containers handled in the port of Rotterdam continues to grow. In the first nine months of 2017, the throughput of containers increased by 10.1 percent compared to the corresponding period in 2016, to a total of 10.2 million units (TEU)…

Cautious Optimism on Multipurpose Shipping: Drewry

Oct 17, 2017

Recovering demand for multipurpose shipping combined with improved market conditions for competing sectors will result in rising market share for the multipurpose shipping fleet and a recovery in freight rates in 2018, according to the latest…

US Trade Chief Says He's Not Focused on Ending NAFTA

Oct 17, 2017

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Tuesday he is not focused on terminating the North American Free Trade Agreement and is only trying to negotiate an update that 'rebalances' the pact to reduce U.S. trade deficits. 'We…

Today’s Maritime Security: Is the Industry Prepared?

Oct 17, 2017

In late June of 2017, AP Moeller-Maersk shut down its container operations at the Port of Los Angeles. It wasn’t due to labor relations problems, equipment malfunction or other reasons that have been known to thwart port operations. It was a cyber-attack…

Hapag-Lloyd to Offer reUse Container Management Services

Oct 17, 2017

Avantida said Hapag-Lloyd has become the first ocean carrier in the U.K. to offer its reUse container management services through the Avantida platform. The application allows the re-use of import containers for export shipments of the same shipping company…

Petroleum, Food Boost US Import Prices

Oct 17, 2017

U.S. import prices for September recorded their biggest increase in more than a year amid rising petroleum and food costs, but underlying imported inflation remained modest.The Labor Department said on Tuesday that import prices jumped 0…

APL Renews Terminal Lease at Port of Kaohsiung

Oct 17, 2017

An agreement has been signed between American President Lines LLC, Taiwan Branch and Taiwan International Ports Corporation Ltd, to renew APL’s terminal lease at the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The signed deal retains APL’s current terminal plot…

Pasha Hawaii to Deploy Jones Act Vessel to Puerto Rico

Oct 17, 2017

Pasha Hawaii will provide the U.S. Jones Act vessel Horizon Spirit to ship hundreds of containers from the West Coast in support of hurricane relief and rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico. The Horizon Spirit serves as a drydock reserve ship in…

ZIM Seven Stars Express Service to Add a Kaohsiung Call

Oct 16, 2017

ZIM is pleased to announce that starting November 2017, ZIM’s popular Seven Stars Express Service (Z7S) will add a call in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, offering unique advantages to customers, said a company press release. The service includes: Direct access to New York Maher terminal…

Savi Ocean ETA Brings Transparency to Shipping

Oct 16, 2017

With Ocean ETA, shippers gain real-time visibility to ocean shipments and seamless orchestration of transitions between sea, land and air. Ocean ETA was launched by Savi, an innovator in big data/machine learning analytic solutions, supply chain management software and sensor technology…

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