Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)

Cherry aid: carriers collaborate to shift Chilean cherry harvest

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has joined HMM, Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Hapag-Lloyd to move Chilean Cherries to the lucrative Chinese market deploying extra loaders to the trade, on a service dubbed the Cherry Express.

MSC has bolstered the west coast South America to China service with two vessels after joining the other carriers on the service this week.

The Cherry Express will run as a joint carrier agreement between November and January with the addition of the two dedicated...

https://container-news.com/cherry-aid-carriers-collaborate-to-shift-chilean-cherry-harvest/

US-based provider to transform MSC global communication systems

Mediterranean Shipping Company MSC has selected the Californian communications platform provider 8×8, Inc. to accelerate its global digital transformation.

8×8 will support MSC to transform its global communications, collaboration and customer engagement infrastructure onto a single cloud platform, deploying the 8×8 Open Communications Platform, including 8×8 Voice for Microsoft Teams, internationally across more than 155 countries and 493 locations.

MSC has harmonised its approach to systems and...

https://container-news.com/us-based-provider-to-transform-msc-global-communication-systems/

Ongoing disruption at UK ports prompts MSC surcharges

MSC has announced that due to the ongoing congestion at UK ports the carrier will introduce congestion charges for all import containers ranging from US$50-175/TEU.

Congestion charges, on all container types, for UK imports will be imposed from 1 December for Far East origin freight, the 10 December for US imports, and from 16 November, for import cargo from other regions.

The Switzerland-based operator called the UK port congestion “unprecedented”, adding that the company expects the congestion...

https://container-news.com/ongoing-disruption-at-uk-ports-prompts-msc-surcharges/

Major shipping carriers keep changing schedules amid Covid-19

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced that in order to adapt the capacity to current market demands amidst the evolving COVID-19 situation, it will temporarily suspend the NWC (Northwest Countries) to IPAK (India Pakistan) service, effective from week 20 until end of June.

Last sailing on NWC to IPAK will be:
Vessel APL NEW YORK, voyage OEG62E, ETA Southampton 4 May 2020

During this period, MSC will continue to offer Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Red Sea & East Africa with its Himalaya...

https://container-news.com/major-shipping-carriers-keep-changing-schedules-amid-covid-19/

US court judges freight forwarder and chemical maker responsible for MSC Flaminia deaths

MSC Flaminia disaster 2012

From the Handy Shipping Guide:

Early on the morning of 14 July 2012 the ship’s alarms sounded and a cloud of smoke rose from one of the holds. When the fire-fighting team rushed toward it and flooded the hold with CO2 the explosion occurred.

In the second hearing of a potentially three phase case the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has reached a verdict appointing responsibility for the deaths, injuries and damage caused when the MSC Flaminia was struck by an explosion....

http://www.longshoreshippingnews.com/2018/09/us-court-judges-freight-forwarder-and-chemical-maker-responsible-for-msc-flaminia-deaths/

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