Containerships VIII CMA CGM’s subsidiary, Containerships has integrated the port of Hamburg into its liner service BALT1. The intra-European liner service “BALT-1” started in Hamburg on 23 September with the departure of the vessel Containerships VIII. The new service is expected to increase the frequency of sailings between the ports of Hamburg, Rotterdam and Teesport […]

Port of Hamburg The Halifax Port Authority and Hamburg Port Authority have announced their collaboration to decarbonise the shipping corridor between Halifax, on Canada’s east coast, and Hamburg, along Germany’s northwest coast. The leaders of the two port authorities, Jens Meier, CEO of the Hamburg Port Authority, and Captain Allan Gray, president and CEO of the […]

Hansa Rendsburg / Source: VesselFinder Hapag-Lloyd has announced a new feeder service between the port of Colombo in Sri Lanka and the port of Chittagong in Bangladesh aiming to bring more fluidity into its transshipment movement. The German company’s new Chittagong Colombo Feeder (CCF) service is expected to enable swift connections from Chittagong to the […]

Maersk has inaugurated two new warehouses in India increasing its total warehousing footprint in the country to 306,000m² across more than 20 facilities. The new warehouses are located at Farrukhnagar, Harayana and Dadri, Uttar Pradesh and are near the National Capital Region (NCR) in the northern part India. Soren Skou, CEO of A.P. Moller – […]

MSC’s lawyers have objected to a potential default judgment from the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) for allegedly failing to produce documents relating to a shipper’s complaint. In July 2021, US furniture maker MCS filed complaints with the FMC, alleging that MSC and COSCO Shipping Lines reneged on their contractual obligations to supply shipping slots for exports […]

Port of New York & New Jersey has announced an updated version of its port supply chain dashboard, a tool that aims to increase efficiency and transparency at the US port. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey added data about Daily Average Turn Times and Weekly Import Container Dwell Time to the […]

While container freight rates across trades out of India have cooled over the past few months, new data obtained by Container News from local forwarder sources now point to a more precipitous slide in intra-Asia connections. Rate levels from India to Central/North China, Singapore and Hong Kong have slid between 30% and 50% this month from the […]

Singapore is now facing the possibility of being overtaken by China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port as the world’s second-busiest container port, 12 years after losing its crown as the world’s busiest box port to Shanghai. Alphaliner’s latest report on 21 September noted that Ningbo-Zhoushan handled 17.54 million TEU in the first half of 2022, just 1.08 million […]

Yang Ming Marine Transport chairman Cheng Cheng-mount has asserted that the ongoing correction in container freight rates is just a blip and the market should not be worried that the segment could return to its pre-pandemic struggles. At an investment seminar organised by Taiwan Stock Exchange on 12 September, Cheng said that China’s Covid-19-related lockdowns […]

MSC Amelia MSC is facing a default judgement from the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in the complaint brought by US furniture maker MCS Industries, after the Swiss-Italian liner giant failed to submit documents that the FMC had ordered to be turned over as part of the proceedings. In July 2021, US furniture maker MCS […]