#Cargo
1 million boxes set new Los Angeles port record
The Port of Los Angeles handled a record 1,042,652 twenty-foot equivalent units in September, marking the busiest month in its 118-year history as rising imports hel...
Hapag-Lloyd suspends bookings to three Philippine ports as container crisis deepens
Hapag-Lloyd has suspended new bookings to Manila, Batangas and Subic Bay until the end of December, as worsening congestion and a chronic shortage of empty-container...
Israel sends Hapag-Lloyd back to drawing board on ZIM
The $4.2bn Hapag-Lloyd takeover of ZIM is not formally dead, but the transaction agreed in February has effectively been sent back to the drawing board after Israeli...
Container Rates Edge Lower Ahead of Golden Week as Suez Traffic Returns
The Drewry World Container Index edged lower this week as falling Asia-Europe rates outweighed firmer pricing on the Transpacific, with carriers preparing another ro...
Small shipments, bigger charges
But what happens if logistics charges increase? The Port Klang Authority (PKA) has a proposal in the works to raise charges for smaller cargo shipments from Janua...
CULines makes 14,000 teu leap with Hudong-Zhonghua order
China United Lines (CULines) is making a sizeable jump up the containership ladder, ordering two 14,000 teu vessels at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding just months after...
Asia-US container rates soar past $11,000, near pandemic records
Ocean carriers are capitalizing on an extraordinary spike in container freight rates from Asia to the United States, with spot prices now within roughly 18% of their...
Maersk Confirms Reports of Large New Ship Order
Maersk is moving forward with a large new ship order, equivalent to approximately 10 percent of the carrier’s current total capacity in operation. The news com...
CULines makes 14,000 teu leap with Hudong-Zhonghua order
China United Lines (CULines) is making a sizeable jump up the containership ladder, ordering two 14,000 teu vessels at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding just months after...
Backcasting enters the shipping mainstream
Japanese liner Ocean Network Express (ONE) is looking 24 years into the future to help decide where to put its money today, adopting a planning technique that is spr...
Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd to sail more container ships through the Suez Canal
COPENHAGEN, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Shipping group Maersk (MAERSKb.CO), opens new tab said on Monday that four more of its joint container services with Germany's H...
Enter the gigamax: Alphaliner makes the case for 27,500 teu ships
For a decade the 24,000 teu megamax has looked like the natural ceiling for containership size. Analysts at Alphaliner now believe the industry could be ready to bre...
Hapag-Lloyd Revamps Direct Links to Nigerian Ports
Hapag-Lloyd is set to overhaul its West Africa Express (WAX) service from this month, strengthening direct shipping links between the Mediterranean, Türkiye and...
World container volumes post record 17.3 million TEUs in July
Global container throughput reached an all-time monthly high in July 2026, as resilient world trade grappled with operational constraints and disruptions from the Ir...
CMA CGM maps out AI-assisted containership
CMA CGM, Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute and Bureau Veritas have launched a joint project to develop an assisted containership concept built aro...
06 Agustus 2026
6 Benefits of Using Air Freight Services for Urgent Deliveries
13 Agustus 2026
Why 47.5 is a scary number for East Coast ports
12 Agustus 2026