News & Highlights

• HMM unveils ambitious plan to double container fleet, capacity by 2030

  April 15th 2024

  The carrier’s expansion strategy also includes further investment in container terminals and doubling its bulk shipping capacity. (read more)

• Threat of pro-Palestinian demonstration shuts Oakland’s marine terminals

  April 15th 2024

  All four container terminals at the Port of Oakland were closed for the day shift on Monday as demonstrators protesting the war in Gaza shut down a ne (read more)

• New risk factor flares in Middle East after seizure of MSC Aires by Iran

  April 15th 2024

  The taking of the container ship and its crew by Iranian forces comes as Red Sea attacks on shipping by Tehran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have forc (read more)

• Gemini’s ‘hub-and-spoke’ model aims to eliminate blank sailings: Hapag-Lloyd

  April 15th 2024

  The new partnership expects to have enough containers positioned at its major hub ports to keep ships full on its mainline trades, thus eliminating th (read more)

• BigLift, CY Shipping expand heavy transport capacity with new orders

  April 15th 2024

  The global energy buildout in renewables and oil and gas has spurred the heavy-transport partners to order two new carriers. (read more)