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...
CMA CGM’s intra-Asia arm Cheng Lie Navigation (CNC Line) and Singapore-based feeder operator X-Press Feeders have entered into a mutual slot exchange on their respective South Korea-Japan services, in order to offer better coverage of the route. The arrangement began in early November 2020.
Firstly, CNC Line is buying slots on X-Press Feeders’ weekly Busan-Niigata X-Press (BNX) service, which connects South Korea’s busiest container port, Busan, with the western Japanese ports of Niigata,...
https://container-news.com/cnc-line-and-x-press-feeders-in-mutual-slot-purchases/
Feeling bullish about market conditions, Taiwanese intra-Asia shipping specialist TS Lines is increasing capacity on new and existing services.
TS Lines will operate the China India West Coast X-Press (CWX) service with Korea Marine Transport Company (KMTC) and Singapore’s X-Press Feeders.
Beginning 26 October, six ships will operate the CWX service with capacities ranging from 4,200 to 5,000TEU, with X-Press Feeders deploying four ships and KMTC and TS Lines each contributing one vessel.
The...
https://container-news.com/ts-lines-revamps-asia-and-australia-services/
A fire that broke out onboard a Malta-flagged feeder vessel off the Indian coast earlier this week has been successfully extinguished, the Indian Coast Guard said. The post X-Press feeder ship fire…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/x-press-feeder-ship-fire-put-out-indian-coast-guard-says/
The Indian Coast Guard has contained a fire that broke out on X-Press Godavari container ship at anchorage near Sandheads, 100km south of Haldia Port, on the morning of 28 September.
Unconfirmed reports say that the fire was caused by misdeclared or poorly packed containers, as the coast guard was alerted to the fire that had broken out in one container on the anchored 917TEU boxship.
The anchorage off Sandheads is located...
https://container-news.com/indian-coast-guard-addresses-boxship-fire-eruption/
A new service by Containerships has shown the growing importance of the Irish market to carriers.
The service is from Dublin to Rotterdam, and Hapag-Lloyd is adding Waterford to its links out of Dublin, Cork and Belfast
The increasing threat of a no-deal Brexit is prompting Irish shippers to re-examine the availability of all-sea service links to the continent as a replacement for a UK landbridge option that could be subject to …
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The much-hyped feeder cooperation agreement between THE Alliance members Hapag-Lloyd and ONE has fallen victim to Covid-19.
Since October 2018, a “bilateral strategic feeder network cooperation agreement” has seen the two carriers sharing space on their respective feeder vessels.
However, as part of Hapag-Lloyd’s recently announced “triple-digit-million-dollar” cost reduction plan to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on its balance sheet, the carrier has suspended a number of its own feeder...
https://theloadstar.com/one-caught-on-the-hop-as-hapag-lloyd-ends-baltic-feeder-cooperation/
North European feeder operators are downsizing their fleets to mitigate the impact of falling demand from ocean carrier customers.
One Hamburg-based broker told The Loadstar yesterday there were “very few extensions” being negotiated in the sector.
“Since the end of April, most of my discussions have been related to off-hire dates,” he said, “it’s not even about the daily hire rate as the feeder guys just do not have enough business coming through to …
The post Feeder operators look to downsize...
https://theloadstar.com/feeder-operators-look-to-downsize-fleets-as-demand-for-services-falls/
Due to the recent incidents in the Strait of Hormuz and the significantly increasing insurance costs in the Middle East region, APL is implementing War Risk Surcharge based on the scope below.
Effective date for all trades excluding U.S. and China: 5 July 2019
Effective date for U.S. and China: 1 August 2019
Origin/destination: Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia (Dammam and Jubail), Kuwait, Iraq
Quantum: USD36/TEU
Notes:
1. Effective dates are based on BL dates.
2....
https://container-news.com/more-liners-implement-war-risk-surcharges-middle-east/