Keppel AmFELS to build LNG fueled Pasha containerships
MAY 11, 2017 — Honolulu-based Pasha Hawaii today announced that it has selected the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, TX, a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), to build two
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Navios swoops on Rickmers containerships
APRIL 21, 2017 — Navios Maritime Partners L.P. reports that it has agreed to acquire the entire Rickmers Maritime container fleet for about $113.0 million. The news follows an April 19 statement
SHI holds naming ceremony for world’s largest containership
MARCH 16, 2017 — There’s a new holder of the title “world’s biggest containership. Shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries, Ltd. yesterday held a naming ceremony at its Geoje, South Korea, shipyard for the
IBM and Maersk team to digitize container paper trail
MARCH 6, 2017 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Maersk are to collaborate to use blockchain technology to help help manage and track the paper trail of tens of millions of shipping containers
Eimskip, Royal Arctic order ice class containerships
FEBRUARY 2, 2017 — Reykjavik, Iceland, headquartered Eimskip has been in negotiations with shipyards in China to build two 2,150 TEU container vessels and has finalized a contract with China Shipbuilding Trading
South Africa suspects container shipping cartel
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 — South Africa’s Competition Commission (Commission) yesterday conducted search and seizure operations at the premises of six container shipping companies operating in the Western Cape and Kwazulu-Natal provinces. The
Piston free LNG container vessel project advances
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016—It was announced at SMM 2016 in Hamburg, Germany, that project partners GTT, CMA CGM (and its subsidiary CMA Ships) and DNV GL have joined with new project participants ABB,
Big increase in container volume handled by INTTRA
AUGUST 10, 2016 — Ocean shipping electronic marketplace INTTRA reports that it handled a 17 percent increase in container volume for the first half of 2016 over the same period in 2015.
USCG issues Safety Alert on container handling
JULY 29, 2016 — The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a Safety Alert (08-16) reminding Coast Guard Container Inspectors and others involved in the inspection or handling of intermodal containers that there
More panamax containerships head for demolition
JULY 1, 2016 — Does the opening of the Panama Canal to larger neopanamax vessels sound the death knell for the panamax containership? Copenhagen headquartered BIMCO, the world’s largest international shipping association,