ONE CEO Jeremy Nixon: Seaspan investment is synergistic

Ocean Network Express (ONE) CEO Jeremy Nixon said today that the pan-Japanese liner operator’s acquisition of a 28.5% stake in Atlas Corp., the parent company of Seaspan Corporation, is a purely financial transaction, but also a strategic move as Seaspan will become ONE’s largest tonnage provider.

Currently, 12% of ONE’s chartered ships are from Seaspan but this will go up to 25% when newbuildings Seaspan ordered are ready.

Seaspan is now the largest tonnage provider of container ships and its...

https://container-news.com/one-ceo-jeremy-nixon-seaspan-investment-is-synergistic/

International Maritime Hall of Fame inductees announced

The Maritime Association of the Port of New York and New Jersey (MAPONY/NJ) has announced the 29th International Maritime Hall of Fame inductees.

They are Griff Lynch, executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority; Brian Buckley McAllister, president of McAllister Towing; Jeremy Nixon, CEO of Ocean Network Express; Semiramis Paliou, director and CEO of Diana Shipping and chair of the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association; and Bill Shea, CEO of DCLI.

International Maritime Hall of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/international-maritime-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced

ONE unveils eight-year US$20 billion plan for newbuildings and terminals

Ocean Network Express (ONE) plans to invest US$20 billion to build new container ships and acquire terminals from this year to 2030.

Speaking at an online media conference on 23 March to discuss the pan-Japanese liner group’s mid-term plans, ONE’s CEO Jeremy Nixon said that the company will invest in 150,000 TEU of newbuildings annually.

Nixon said, “We have leased 38 vessels which will be deployed from 2023 to 2025, and that’s about 500,000 TEU. That process has already started and will replace...

https://container-news.com/one-unveils-eight-year-us20-billion-plan-for-newbuildings-and-terminals/

Shattered Schedule Recovery Resulting Delayed Sailings

More ships are being held at departure ports in Asia for a week or more, as carriers wrestle with the recovery of their shattered schedules, says an article published in the loadstar.

Warning More Sailings to be Delayed

They have drawn a blank in their attempts to secure additional capacity to mitigate the impact of port congestion, and are warning shippers to expect more sailings to be delayed.

Rolf Habben Jansen

Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen told customers today the carrier’s fleet was “fully...

https://mfame.guru/shattered-schedule-recovery-resulting-delayed-sailings/

Career Tracks: World Shipping Council elects CEOs co-chairs

Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, and Jeremy Nixon, CEO of ONE, have been elected co-chairs of the board of directors of the World Shipping Council (WSC).

The board of directors also announced this week it had welcomed Matson Navigation and X-Press Feeders as new WSC members.

Jansen and Nixon have begun serving a two-year term as co-chairs. They succeeded Ron Widdows, who had served as the WSC chairman for more than a decade and previously announced his intention to step down once a...

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Talking TEUs and tequila

Container lines and shippers commiserated over the coronavirus pandemic’s effect on their businesses during an Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) virtual conference Wednesday.

“COVID-19 obviously has had a significant effect on the global economy, on the U.S. operations and here in Asia. It’s like we’ve almost doubled down  on the complexity of the U.S.-China trade dispute we all faced together in 2019,” said Ocean Network Express (ONE) CEO Jeremy Nixon.

“After Chinese New Year here we...

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Now profitable, ONE expands reefer fleet

Ocean Network Express (ONE), which last week announced it had turned a profit, said Tuesday it was expanding its refrigerated container fleet by 5,000 40-foot units.

Two hundred of those units will be equipped with advanced controlled atmosphere technology, said Singapore-based ONE, which said it already has one of the largest state-of-the-art reefer fleets and procured 6,000 units last year.

Global refrigerated container volume grew by more than 7% in 2019, according to ONE, which said that...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/now-profitable,-one-expands-reefer-fleet

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