Maersk Group has returned to South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for its latest series of ultra-large container ships.
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08 May 2015
The recent increase in rates for container vessels has lost some of its momentum following a spike in redeliveries of large gearless vessels from short periods and round voyages in the trans-Pacific trade.
08 May 2015
A new ship design could be just what the refrigerated shipping industry — and banana shippers, in particular — needs to remain in control of their supply chain.
07 May 2015
Vessel acquisitions by U.S.-listed owners have dropped dramatically this year. The only public companies that are still buying in both the secondhand and newbuilding markets are container ship lessors.
07 May 2015
Costamare is set to pocket more than $100 million from an offering of preferred stock in the Greece-based container ship owner.
06 May 2015
The economics of the mega-ships of 18,000 20-foot-equivalent units that container lines are building and deploying may not be all they are cracked up to be. The savings that carriers are touting as the reason for ordering them may not be as great as advertised when all their costs are factored in.
05 May 2015
Navios Maritime Partners, the NYSE-listed Greek dry bulk and container ship-owner, restated its focus on the container sector as it reported lower first quarter income.
03 May 2015
Alianca Navegacao e Logistica launched a 4,800-TEU, the Bartolomeu Dias, in the Brazilian and South American coastal service and plans to launch a second ship this summer.
01 May 2015
Charter rates for containerships up to 6,500 twenty-foot equivalent units are on a roll as a rush of new liner services injects a further boost to an already dynamic market, Alphaliner reported.
29 Apr 2015
Reederei NSB developed a concept to widen a Panama container ship rather than lengthen it, and completed its first project — the MSC Geneva — increasing the TEU capacity by more than 20 percent.
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