The container shipping market has become used to cyclicality over the decades, and it experienced an unprecedented peak in 2021 and 2022 with record rates and profits for liners. But with consumers ...

An ocean container capacity crunch has hit global trade just as peak shipping season starts, with freight spot rates up some 30% over the past few weeks and heading higher. Bad weather, longer ocean ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The global container shipping industry is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few large ...

Consumers gearing up to buy the latest imported appliances, clothes or electronic gadgets this holiday season might want to spare a thought for the companies that will struggle to make money for the ...

Last weeks, the world's oceans got that little bit more crowded when shipping line MSC put its newest container ship into service for the first time. The record-breaking MSC Irina became the largest ...

While drama in the container shipping sector has calmed a bit, container carriers still wrestle with unexpected drops in demand. Peter Sand, Xeneta, discusses vessel capacity moves and their likely ...

The return of vessel queues outside Singapore, and many other ports for the first time since Covid, points to trouble in the system that transports 45% of global trade by value. At least 6-7% vessel ...

The Georgia-based port has approved several projects that will add more container units this year. The Georgia Ports Authority has approved capital improvement projects that will expand shipping ...