Thai intra-Asia carrier Regional Container Lines (RCL) has purchased its largest ever ship in what appears to be its maiden second-hand vessel acquisition.
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The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) voted on Tuesday to grant the temporary relief from certain service contract and tariff filing requirements requested by French ocean container carrier CMA CGM.
The carrier sought relief from commission regulations earlier this month as part of its efforts to respond to a crippling cyberattack on its computer system in late September.
The commissioners granted the request for exemption from relevant service contract filing requirements and relevant...
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French ocean container carrier CMA CGM has “urgently” petitioned the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to temporarily exempt it from meeting certain tariff publication and service contract filing requirements while it continues to clean up its systems from a recent cyberattack.
The carrier asked the FMC to use its authority under the Shipping Act to institute the exemption for a period of 60 days, starting on Sept. 27, when it was struck by the ransomware attack.
CMA CGM said the cyberattack...
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Major ocean freight consolidators in the U.S. market see no shortage in demand for expedited less-than-container load (LCL) service requests from freight forwarders during the ongoing global pandemic.
These services promise roughly 12-day port-to-port transits between China’s dominant seaports and Los Angeles and Long Beach in Southern California, compared to mostly standard, monthlong ocean transits for eastbound, trans-Pacific container traffic.
Although expedited LCL services are three to four...
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Australia has put containership operators and masters “on notice” of a new inspection campaign targeting cargo securing.
Following recent incidents resulting in containers being lost overboard, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has vowed to inspect every cargo ship calling at Australian ports between August and October.
It said incidents like the 81 containers lost by YM Efficiency in 2018 and the 50 lost by the APL England in May had caused …
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A series of high-profile container losses off the coast of Australia has prompted the maritime authority to introduce a focused inspection campaign from 1 August for container vessels calling at Australian ports.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said the campaign will run until 31 October and will target cargo securing arrangements on foreign container ships operating in Australian waters, which are required to have cargo securing arrangements approved under regulation 5 of...
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CMA CGM Group has decided to drop its APL brand on its network on the Pacific trades with the French carrier becoming the group’s exclusive commercial carrier brand from 1 October 2020.
The French shipping group believes that with the expertise and the experience of CMA CGM it will be able to serve its customers more effectively and focus on delivering complete, tailored solutions in the transpacific market.
Thus, APL will focus exclusively on servicing the US Government as a long-time service...
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The CMA CGM Group announced Monday it is simplifying its trans-Pacific trade network.
As of Oct. 1, CMA CGM will become the group’s exclusive commercial carrier on the trans-Pacific trade, while APL will focus on its work for the U.S. government.
“All of our commercial cargo going forward on the trans-Pacific will move on a CMA CGM bill of lading. APL will focus all of its efforts on serving the United States government. We operate nine U.S.-flagged ships for the U.S. government today and we do...
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The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has released APL England to allow the ship to sail from Australia to undertake repairs in China.
The ship will leave the Port of Brisbane this evening without cargo and with a new Master. AMSA inspectors attended APL England and were satisfied that the ship was fit to sail to China to undertake repairs. The ship’s previous Master who is facing multiple charges relating to the incident, will leave the ship and be repatriated home.
Prior to allowing...