Another Chinese liner is branching out from its domestic roots to the main east-west trades. Antong Holdings-controlled Ansheng Shipping is deploying 12 ships onto the transpacific and Asia-Europe trade lanes, working in partnership with China United Lines (CU Lines). Ansheng and CU Lines are the...
British mainstream media headlines are awash with empty supermarket shelf pictures and concerns about Christmas shopping on day two of a planned eight-day strike at the country’s largest container port. Nearly 2,000 workers downed tools yesterday at the port of Felixstowe, demanding improved pay....
https://splash247.com/felixstowe-strike-sparks-further-supply-chain-woes-for-the-uk/
The demand-led spikes seen during the pandemic that propelled container shipping to record earnings are now a thing of the past, according to new analysis from Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence. Sea-Intelligence has run the numbers on supply and demand during the pandemic, and its conclusions add...
https://splash247.com/demand-led-spikes-are-over-for-container-shipping/
Officials at Israeli carrier ZIM have confirmed that a fire ripped through the 8,586 teu 11 days ago in the Indian Ocean, with the ship showing no signs of leaving its mooring at Colombo port as accident investigators look into the latest blaze to hit the liner business. According to insurance firm...
https://splash247.com/zim-confirms-blaze-on-ship-off-colombo/
Dr Anand Hiremath from Global Marketing Systems (GMS) has three simple ways for shipping to become more circular. The maritime industry contributes nearly 940m tons of CO2 emissions annually, accounting for nearly 2.5% of the world’s total CO2 emissions, according to data from UK Research and...
https://splash247.com/is-extending-the-life-of-a-ship-bad-for-the-environment/
A.P. Moller – Maersk has penned an agreement with Debo Energy in China for the supply of green methanol as fuel for its containerships under construction in South Korea. The letter of intent with Debo would see the Danish shipping giant purchase 200,000 tons of green methanol annually from the...
Reports have emerged of another sizeable fire onboard a boxship. Insurance firm WK Webster carries news of a fire on the 8,586 teu 10 days ago in the Indian Ocean. Tracking from MarineTraffic (see below) shows the ship made for Colombo after the fire erupted, where the ship remains today. The fire...
https://splash247.com/hundreds-of-boxes-damaged-in-latest-containership-blaze-off-colombo/
Reefer container freight rates across global trades rose over 50% in the year to Q2, matching gains made in dry cargo pricing, and are estimated to increase further in Q3, outpacing dry box rates, according to a new report from British consultancy Drewry. Drewry warns that some stabilisation is...
https://splash247.com/reefer-container-freight-rates-to-outpace-dry-box-pricing-drewry/
Chastened by statistics from insurers that suggest a major fire takes place on a boxship every 60 days, Danish carrier Maersk has been taking plenty of action on this issue in recent years. Maersk, which has suffered a number of fires across its fleet in recent years, including the deadly blaze on...
https://splash247.com/maersk-invests-in-fleet-wide-firefighting-tech/
The capacity size gap between the largest carriers and the rest of the field is now bigger than ever, according to data carried in the latest weekly report from Alphaliner. Today, the top 10 carriers operate 21.8m teu, versus 2.5m teu for the next 20 ranked lines, a far cry from the fragmented...