Too often crew are used as a pawn in a legal chess match between owners and authorities. Sometimes that can lead to seafarers being stranded, sometimes for years, as with Mohammad Aisha, through no fault of their own. It is clear that the maritime community must stand in solidarity with these crew who are denied […]

Ever Given disrupted the trade bottleneck known as the Suez Canal, which handles around 12% of global trade annually, causing hundreds of vessels to stack up at either end of the waterway in less than a week and has led to US$900 million lawsuit. The Suez Canal blockage prompts us to revisit access arrangements and […]

Sinotrans Container Lines (commonly known as Sinolines) has commissioned a pair of 2,400TEU ships from Yangzijiang Shipbuilding and a pair of 1,100TEU ships from China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Nanjing). The orders were formalised at a contract signing ceremony on 16 April, attended by China Merchants Energy Shipping’s (CMES) chairman Xie Chunlin, CMES deputy general manager […]

An environmental NGO said that container lines calling for urgent action on market-based measures (MBM) from world leaders and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) are attempting to slow the introduction of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Faig Abbasov, Director, Shipping at NGO Transport & Environment, told Container News does not believe that the […]

SeaCube Containers LLC and Carrier Transicold have announced a strategic refrigerated asset management systems platform engagement. As a result, SeaCube will be the first intermodal equipment leasing company to incorporate Carrier’s Lynx Fleet solution into its fleet with an initial deployment of 2,000 PrimeLINE refrigerated container units. The Lynx Fleet solution includes proprietary technology that […]

Wuhan is eyeing more container routes as the Chinese river-port embarks on the second phase of a river-rail project that will make it China’s largest inland river-rail transportation base. Located along the Yangtze River, Wuhan, originally the Covid-19 epicentre, has been making an economic recovery, posting container throughput of 1.96 million TEU in 2020, accounting […]

HMM will order a dozen 13,000TEU ships within H1 2021, at the direction of South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF). South Korea’s government is continuing a plan, spearheaded by MOF minister, Moon Sung-hyeok (above), that will consolidate its shipping industry, with the order of 12 new vessels that will return its shipping industry […]

Confidence in the ocean supply chain is low and for the movement of vaccines by sea there will need to be an improvement in the reliability and visibility of the logistics system. Speaking at the Containing Covid-19 conference, jointly organised by Container News and Cool Logistics, Michael Culme-Seymour, Consultant, World Economic Forum (WEF) and VP […]

Port of Koper has chosen the Belgium-based automation company Camco Technologies for the automated registration of its increasing container and rail wagon traffic. Camco will be responsible for the design, installation and support of its rail optical character recognition (OCR) portal technology. The Slovenian port’s investment plan expects to reach a capacity of more than […]

Taiwanese intra-Asia carrier TS Lines continued its secondhand ship buying spree, and plans to buy more ships, with the acquisition of two more container ships. The company acquired the 2003-built 5,551TEU TS Mumbai (ex-Naxos) from International Maritime Enterprise, part of the Embiricos group, for US$25.5 million, as well as the 2008-built 1,740TEU Hansa Falkenburg from […]