NOVEMBER 27, 2014—United Arab Shipping Company (UASC)’s first ever LNG-ready ultra large container vessel, the 15,000-TEU M/V Sajir, was recently named at Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries’ shipyard in Ulsan, Korea. The
NOVEMBER 18, 2014—The 19,000 TEU CSCL Globe, the world’s largest containership was recently christened in South Korea during a ceremony at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI). The CSCL Globe is the
NOVEMBER 6, 2014 — Leading freight transport insurer TT Club says that contamination accounts for nearly half of all claims relating to tank container incidents, with damage to tanks adding another third
NOVEMBER 1, 2014—The first two of seven 9,300 TEU containerships for Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores (CSAV) were recently christened at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) in Geoje, South Korea. The ceremony was attended
SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 — Helsinki, Finland, headquartered Containerships Ltd Oy says it is considering “as acquiring … as our own assets” a series of four 1,400 TEU dual fuel containerships that it
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014—Two dual-fuel 3,100-TEU containerships under construction at General Dynamics NASSCO, San Diego, CA, for TOTE, Inc., will receive a $324.6 million Title XI loan guarantee from the U.S. Maritime Administration,
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 — Late last month, engineers at General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard placed the world’s first dual-fuel slow speed engine into the world’s first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) fueled containership. The
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 — The first containerships to use Wärtsilä’s two-stroke, low pressure, dual-fuel technology will be a series of new 1,400 TEU Baltic feeder vessels being built for GNS Shipping GmbH
AUGUST 28, 2014 — Investment firm KKR (NYSE:KKR) and Borealis Maritime today announced the acquisition of a portfolio of nine feeder container vessels in a sale process coordinated by Commerzbank. The vessels
JULY 23, 2014 — DuPont subsidiary Belco Technologies Corporation, Parsippany, NJ, has partnered with the Maersk Group to successfully demonstrate Belco Marine exhaust gas s,,crubber technology aboard the 8,112 TEU containership Maersk
