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Ports and carriers plan to add up to 50,000 chassis in southeast US
The ports and carriers that are part of the South Atlantic Chassis Pool (SACP) have signed a letter of intent to increase and upgrade the pool. Through this joint effort, the Georgia Port Authority (GPA), Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport), North Carolina State Ports Authority (NC Ports) and the...
https://splash247.com/ports-and-carriers-plan-to-add-up-to-50000-chassis-in-southeast-us/
Biden vows to tackle competition issues in liner shipping
President Joe Biden will shortly order American transportation agencies to address competition in rail and shipping, as shippers struggle with sky high freight rates. Biden’s executive order will tap the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) and the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to come up with...
https://splash247.com/biden-vows-to-tackle-competition-issues-in-liner-shipping/
Arne Fredly buys into MPC Container Ships
Norwegian tycoon Arne Fredly has emerged as a major shareholder in Oslo-listed MPC Container Ships. Fredly, who controls tanker firm Hunter Group, has spent around NOK60m ($6.85m) building up a 2.8m share base in MPC, one of the fastest growers on the Oslo Bors this year. MPC’s share price has...
https://splash247.com/arne-fredly-buys-into-mpc-container-ships/
Ever Given undergoing inspections at Port Said
After a packed media send-off, the Ever Given headed north yesterday, arriving at Port Said in the evening where it anchored at the port’s outer limits. The ship, which became lodged across the Suez Canal for six days in March sparking a huge legal tussle over compensation claims, remains at anchor...
https://splash247.com/ever-given-undergoing-inspections-at-port-said/
Jebel Ali port rocked by containership explosion
An explosion and subsequent fire rocked DP World’s Jebel Ali terminal in the United Arab Emirates last night. Social media posts caught the huge explosion from afar in scenes reminiscent of last year’s Beirut port blast. Dubai Media Office confirmed the source of the blast was a small containership...
https://splash247.com/jebel-ali-port-rocked-by-containership-explosion/
Ever Given weighs anchor
A ceremony is underway in Egypt this morning to mark an agreement on compensation for the fiasco, with the giant boxship having raised its anchor, ready to head north and leave the country where it has been in since a transit of the Suez Canal went badly wrong on March 23. The ship was responsible …
TS Lines selects Shanghai Waigaoqiao for 7,000 teu quartet
The mid-sized containership sector orderbook, almost starved of any newbuilds nine months ago, is beginning to look lengthy. Taiwan’s TS Lines is the latest carrier to put pen to paper for 7,000 teu class ships, signing yesterday for four ships with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding. The four 272.5...
https://splash247.com/ts-lines-selects-shanghai-waigaoqiao-for-7000-teu-quartet/
More than 1m teu worth of boxships have changed hands so far this year
Records keep falling across every segment of the container shipping industry. In sale and purchase, 1.025m teu of secondhand tonnage changed hands in the first half of the year, an all-time high for any six-month period according to data from Alphaliner. A total of 301 ships were sold in H1, with...
https://splash247.com/more-than-1m-teu-worth-of-boxships-have-changed-hands-so-far-this-year/