Port of Baltimore helps ease supply chain woes
Mercedes-Benz is one of several major shippers using the Port of Baltimore to get over supply chain hurdles. On Monday, the car carrier Noble Ace delivered 1,800 new Mercedes-Benz vehicles at the
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VIDEO: Maersk rethinks the containership
Maersk has taken the wraps off the design of its eight 16,000 TEU methanol-fueled containership newbuilds. And the decision to opt for methanol is just the start of the innovations they incorporate.
CMA CGM implements early container pickup incentives
In an effort to improve the fluidity of the largest import gateway in the United States, the CMA CGM Group, is to implement an Early Container Pickup Incentive Program at the ports
MAN ME-GI engines to power 10 new Seaspan containerships
Marking another success for MAN Energy Solutions in the Chinese market, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group has ordered 10 MAN B&W 7G80ME-C10.5-GI engines in connection with the construction of 10 LNG-fueled containerships for Seaspan
Container shipping earnings hit all time high
Move over Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, you’re currently being outperformed financially by the ocean carrier giants. Actual net income for the container shipping industry in third quarter 2021 was $48.1 billion,
VIDEO: Zero-emission, zero-crew box ship makes first trip
The world’s first all-electric autonomous containership, Yara Birkeland has completed its maiden voyage in the Oslo Fjord. The 120 TEU vessel will be used by Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara to transport mineral
San Pedro Bay ports to delay charging “dwell fee” on lingering boxes
The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach are to delay consideration of the “Container Dwell Fee,” to be slapped on ocean carriers for boxes lingering too long at
San Pedro Bay ports to slap charges on carriers for containers that stay in terminals
In an attempt to improve cargo movement amid congestion and record volumes, the San Pedro Bay, Calif., ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are to assess a surcharge to ocean carriers
Pasha to repower veteran box ship to LNG dual fuel
A 42-year-old Pasha Hawaii containership, the 2,400 TEU Horizon Reliance, is to be converted from steam propulsion and converted to dual fuel—presumably LNG—propulsion. The ship is one of four Jones Act containerships
VIDEO: Fire breaks out in containers on Zim box ship off Victoria, B.C.
The Canadian Coast Guard reported Sunday night that a fire that broke out in 10 containers aboard the containership Zim Kingston near Victoria, B.C., had been stabilized and that emergency tow vessels,