The industrial action by 12,000 port workers will halt operations at the key container hubs of Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven, and will be the third and longest period of industrial action in the increasingly bitter wage dispute. If the strike goes ahead, it will have a serious impact on lin...

The India-Europe tradelane has been the hardest hit by service disruptions. MSC blanked calls to the west coast ports of Nhava Sheva (JNPT) and Mundra last week on both its premier connections – branded the Himalaya Express (HEX) and IPAK. The two ports command the bulk of Indian containerised car...

Usually some 6,000 teu of outbound containers are waiting for shipment, but an extra 3,300 teu are now waiting following a suspension of trucks from highways, due to Eid. The seven-day truck suspension was imposed in order to facilitate the movement of public buses and other vehicles for people leav...

APL Fullerton, a 17,300 teu sister ship to the APL Vanda, is currently in the Mediterranean, north of Alexandria and steaming towards Tangier, with an estimated date of arrival on 19 July, 11 days before the Vanda, currently still at anchor off Djibouti according to the latest AIS data from VesselsV...

Some 90 vessels are involved in the agreement. Martin Gaard Christiansen, chief commercial officer at Unifeeder, said that it had been chosen to provide these services “after extensive market research”. The company wants to reduce its emissions by 50% per container by 2040, he said. “We recogn...

The 17,300 teu APL Vanda suffered a mystery incident on 3 July and is currently idling off the coast of Djibouti, off the East African coast. CMA CGM released a customer advisory on 7 July telling customers that the vessel had experienced an “unexpected incident” while en route to Europe, withou...

A report from the International Transport Forum (ITF) a think tank that is politically autonomous, but administratively integrated into the OECD, effectively concludes that global regulation has failed shippers and forwarders by engineering a situation in which shipping lines can legally ‘manufact...

Canada’s biggest box port is experiencing a wave of record import volumes and when combined with intermodal delays due to forest fires in British Columbia, it has resulted in a big spike in container import dwell times. Hapag-Lloyd said that all vessels calling at Vancouver “continue to face sig...

The ship, able to carry 399 people, was ordered at Dae Sun Shipbuilding & Engineering, and the newbuilding contract was signed at the PanStar group’s headquarters in Busan. The newbuilding price was not disclosed. The PanStar group said that in expectations of an eventual recovery in tourism p...

It’s only been five weeks since the major port and manufacturing hub emerged from its two-month “zero-Covid” ordeal, and already several districts are undergoing mass testing again, from today until Thursday. Officials say the measures are needed to avert another citywide lockdown, but critics...