With Shanghai progressively reopening, gateway terminals in western consuming nations are bracing for a tsunami of boxes to hit already congested quaysides in June as the peak season gets underway earlier than normal this year. State media in China this week claimed the port is back operating at...
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France’s former transport minister, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, has been barred from joining CMA CGM as executive vice president, heading up the carrier’s air cargo operations, with an independent state body deeming the appointment carried substantial ethical risks. Djebbari, a former pilot, who was...
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The intra-Asia trades, container shipping’s pipelines, are set to get the green corridor treatment.Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub announced today it is working with 11 cross-supply chain stakeholders to develop a fleet fuel transition strategy that can enable the establishment of a...
Thailand’s Regional Carrier Lines (RCL) has returned to CSSC-affiliated Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding with a new contract for the construction of two more 7,000 teu containerships. No price has been revealed for the latest order. For the first pair ordered in March this year, the Bangkok-based...
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The Port of Long Beach (POLB) announced this week that Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, will be used to power the port’s Supply Chain Information Highway, a new digital infrastructure project created to aggregate data for companies across industries and sectors to track...
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Maersk said this week that it foresees the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach soon implementing the container dwell fee, announced in October and since delayed week after week, as the ports continue to tackle congestion. The company said in a rate announcement that the likelihood the fee will be...
More statistics relating to today’s record containership orderbook are pouring in. According to Alphaliner, there are now just under 900 ships totalling 6.8m teu due to be built at yards around the world. According to Alphaliner, the pipeline of container newbuildings is bigger than the combined...
With Ukrainian suppliers being deprived of their most important export ports, Romania’s flagship Black Sea port Constanta has emerged as one of the options to ease logistics pressures on the sector. Since Russia’s invasion began three months ago, Romania, which has the largest border with Ukraine,...
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Qatar Navigation Company (Milaha) has announced the resignation of the company’s president and CEO, Abdulrahman Essa Al-Mannai, in order to pursue other duties. Al-Mannai had headed up the company for the past seven years, a period of time that saw Milaha expand geographically a great deal....
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) plans to resuscitate an old shipping name next month with the aim of opening up markets on the Indian Ocean. Lignes Maritimes Congolaises (LMC) is being relaunched on the international stage as a state-owned entity and has plans to buy bulk and boxships. The...
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