The shipping lines continue to change their schedules in order to face the ongoing congestion at the Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) of the Port of Shenzhen, China, where the yard density remains high. MSC announced it will be omitting a number of calls at the Yantian port so as to minimise the impact on […]

2M Alliance of Maersk and MSC has decided to replace the call at the Port of Hamburg with the Port of Bremerhaven on its AE7/Condor service due to the severe congestion issue in Hamburg Eurogate Terminal, which is impacting schedule reliability and causing delays to shipments. The change will take effect immediately and will last for […]

According to the United Nations (UN), the agreement reached by 196 nations at COP21 on 12 December 2015, which entered into force nearly a year later on 4 November 2016, is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. Also known as the Paris Agreement, COP21 established the goal of limiting global greenhouse gas (GHG) […]

Wan Hai Lines has confirmed an order of four container vessels with 13,100TEU capacity, as part of the company’s fleet improvement plan. The new vessels will be built by the South Korean shipbuilding company, Samsung Heavy Industries, according to the contract signed on 31 May, and will start taking delivery in the second quarter of […]

Operators of two container terminals in Busan New Port have secured volumes from the container shipping alliances for at least the next five years, in anticipation of enhanced competition when more piers in the port open. THE Alliance, which consists of Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Yang Ming and HMM, has signed a contract with Hanjin Busan Newport […]

Major regulatory changes are coming, when IMO meets in its Marine Environment Protection Committee next month it is expected that confirmation of these changes will challenge the maritime sector like never before. Anders Bergh, Technical Sales Manager at Lean Marine offers a view on how to meet these new demands. Climate change is an urgent […]

The congestion at the Port of Shenzhen, China, is evolving with the port’s Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) operating at a very high yard density, according to Ocean Network Express (ONE) announcement. Additionally, several Covid-19 cases were reported earlier this week and the local authorities have tightened the sanitary and quarantine measures around the area. […]

SITC Container Lines’ ship-owning affiliate SITC Shipowning has commissioned up to ten 1,023TEU feeder ships from South Korean shipyard Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering. Its holding group, SITC International, said in a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing on 27 May that the order comprises eight firm vessels that are slated for delivery within 2023. SITC […]

Container volumes from Asia to the United States have skyrocketed by more than 30% in April compared to the same month last year, setting a new monthly record and marking the 10th consecutive month of year-over-year growth, according to data by an American research company, Descartes Datamyne. In particular, container exports to the US from […]