Antonis Karamalegkos
Yantian port congestion and delays to continue until late June
The situation at the Port of Yantian has not shown any signs of improvement yet with the global shipping lines announcing additional measures to...
Yantian port congestion blocks more boxes than Suez Canal incident
The ongoing container disruption in the Port of Yantian, caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, has already blocked a larger number of containers than the...
Yantian port’s Covid crisis deteriorates
The outbreak of Covid-19 seems to continue at the Port of Yantian in China with the shipping lines taking additional actions to face the...
Maersk’s Skou suggests US$450/tonne bunker tax, MSC’s Toft backs carbon pricing and decarbonisation R&D fund
Søren Skou, CEO of AP Moller – Maersk, has proposed a carbon tax on ship fuel of at least US$450 per tonne of fuel,...
TT Club stresses importance of hazardous cargo’s safe movement after X-Press Pearl disaster
TT Club has highlighted the need of addressing the issues of mishandling dangerous cargo, which in several cases leads to container ship fires, with...
Protestors claim to have prevented ZIM vessel from calling Oakland
The San Francisco-based Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) has announced that the Israeli carrier ZIM decided not to dock its ship at the...
Online booking technical challenges are not related to cyber attack, confirms Maersk
Maersk's online booking systems are facing technical difficulties in the last few days, but a company's representative told Container News that the problem has not...
X-Press Pearl is sinking off Sri Lanka
The Singaporean-flagged vessel X-Press Pearl is sinking off the coast of Sri Lanka after two weeks of salvors' attempts to put out the fire...
Hamburg congestion forces 2M Alliance to port rotation changes
2M Alliance of Maersk and MSC has decided to replace the call at the Port of Hamburg with the Port of Bremerhaven on its...
SCA calls for parties in Ever Given dispute to negotiate and co-operate
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) claims it has called on all the parties to co-operate in the Ever Given legal dispute with its chairman...
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Hapag-Lloyd applies GRI on Pakistan–Middle East trade lanes
Hapag-Lloyd has announced a General Rate Increase (GRI) from Pakistan to the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia (Eastern and Western Provinces), Jordan and Yemen, and...
Wan Hai Lines debuts new Vietnam–Thailand–India direct route
Wan Hai Lines has announced a new direct service, the Tamil Nadu–Thailand Express (TTX) service, with the first vessel arriving at India's Chennai and...
Red Sea Eases, but Carriers Wary as Suez Canal Pushes for Return
As the haze begins to lift over the troubled waters of the Red Sea, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) is carefully balancing reassurance with...
MSC and ZIM downsize joint Far East-US East Coast service network
In response to the recent changes in demand for cargo transport from Asia to the United States, MSC and ZIM have decided to adjust...