The MSC Joanna, a 9,200 teu boxship, has been banned from calling in UAE waters for a year and the ship’s master cannot work on any ships visiting the Middle Eastern nation and faces legal action as the ship becomes one of the first landmark failures to adhere to the new March 1 ban on […]
https://splash247.com/uae-takes-action-against-msc-over-failure-to-adhere-to-new-hsfo-carriage-ban/
Available containers at many major ports around the world outside of China stand at record lows, according to new data published today. The massive box imbalance brought about by the trade war and then the coronavirus sees Chinese ports rammed full of boxes waiting to move, while carriers are...
For the first time, Maersk Line is offering an end-to-end cold chain logistics solution for grape exporters based in the Indian regions of Nashik and Sangli, thereby improving the overall transit time into North European markets by 4 days. Gearing up for the peak grape season, Maersk is offering booking management, on-land and ocean transportation, cargo tracking and customs clearance, amongst other services, as a part of the end-to-end solution.
The movement of grapes is being undertaken in...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/maersk-offers-logistics-support-for-indian-grape-exports/
Neptune Pacific Line (Neptune) has announced the acquisition of Pacific Direct Line (PDL) from PDL’s parent company, Pacific International Lines (PIL). Neptune believes the acquisition will strengthen its Melanesian and Polynesian network, provider a link to Micronesia and the French territories,...
https://splash247.com/pil-offloads-pacific-direct-line-to-neptune-pacific-line/
With cases of coronavirus outside China accelerating fast, container shipping experts are having to rethink the full scale potential drop in the trade for 2020, with one well-known analyst suggesting the disease could see a total loss of 17m teu this year. Latest data shows there are now 128,343...
https://splash247.com/liners-warned-to-brace-for-17m-teu-drop-in-volumes-this-year/
H Orient Overseas Container Line Limited (OOCL) ανακοίνωσε πρόσφατα ότι προχώρησε στην παραγγελία πέντε νεότευκτων containerships στα ναυπηγεία Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (NACKS) και Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co. Ltd. (DACKS).
Το κόστος ναυπήγησης για καθένα από τα πλοία θα ανέλθει στα $155,68 εκατ. Με βάση την τάση των διαχειριστριών εταιρειών τα τελευταία χρόνια για τη ναυπήγηση πολύ μεγάλων πλοίων μεταφοράς εμπορευματοκιβωτίων, δεν προκαλεί εντύπωση το γεγονός ότι τα...
https://www.naftikachronika.gr/2020/03/13/ta-mega-containerships-sto-proskinio/
Extraordinary ongoing delays at ports in and around Lagos in Nigeria are forcing liners to deploy extra ships to the region. In a note to clients yesterday German carrier Hapag-Lloyd revealed waiting times at APM Terminals’ Apapa facility exceed 30 days while calls to Bollore’s Tincan Island...
https://splash247.com/ships-waiting-more-than-a-month-to-offload-boxes-at-lagos/
Activities in the secondhand bulker S&P market scaled back this week with limited assets being put on the market for sale as the sellers are reviewing their ships’ profitability from both a sale and charter point of view with most vessel sizes – bar capes – now trading above opex. “Activity on the...
https://splash247.com/weekly-broker-bulkers-withdrawn-from-sale/
A.P. Moller Holding, the parent company of the A.P. Moller Group, has appointed Claus Hemmingsen and Diane Greene as new members of the board of directors, with a vote at the company’s AGM scheduled to approve the appointments next month. Hemmingsen has a long career with in the group, dating back...
https://splash247.com/claus-hemmingsen-joins-board-of-a-p-moller-holding/
Later this month America will catch a glimpse of a boxship in excess of 20,000 teu for the first time as drastic measures are put in place around the world to reposition containers in the wake of the coronavirus that has stifled supply chains. Alphaliner is reporting MSC is set to redeploy the...