DECEMBER 11, 2016 — South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. has signed a $700 million shipbuilding deal with Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL). Under contracts signed December 9, Hyundai Heavy
NOVEMBER 17, 2016 — Honolulu-based Pasha Hawaii says that two U.S. shipyards are finalists for the construction of two new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) fueled containerships, with an option for two more.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 — Yonhap news agency reports that South Korea is seeking diplomatic help to sort out the mess left by the collapse of Hanjin Shipping. Hanjin’s court-sanction self-restructuring plan has
JULY 28, 2016 — In what it says is a breakthrough finding for ultra-large containerships, ClassNK has concluded that the minimum required brittle crack arrest toughness for extremely thick brittle crack arrest
MAY 26, 2016 — MAN Diesel & Turbo is to upgrade the propulsion system of two 8,500 TEU Danaos Shipping containerships, CSCL Europe and CSCL America. The upgrades will include Engine-Power Limitation
JULY 9, 2015 — ABS is to class the eleven giant, second generation Triple-E container vessels ordered by Maersk Line last month (see earlier story). The carrier ordered the 19,630 TEU vessels
JUNE 18, 2015 — Following the Panama Canal expansion in 2016, up to 10 percent of container traffic to the U.S. from East Asia could shift from West Coast ports to East
MAY 29, 1015 — Crowley Maritime Corp.’s global ship management group has been awarded a new contract with Sunrise Operations LLC, a subsidiary of the Pasha Group, of San Rafael, CA, for
APRIL 22, 2015 — The Pasha Group says that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has cleared its acquisition of the Hawaii trade-lane business of Horizon Lines, Inc. (Horizon). This paves the
MARCH 18, 2015—Fuel savings measures could have a negative effect on the integrity of container lashings. Sharing his experiences from the audits on more than one hundred container vessels last year, Olivier