During the 20th Annual Fleet Forum Conference, Euro Transporter have been named as the winner of the UPS sponsored Best Transport Achievement Award, for their ambitious Fleet Transformation Project.​Each year we receive multiple ambitious entries for the award, which means a leap forward for the o...

The ban was imposed in June, nine days after a deadly fire at a container depot in Chittagong, and brought Bangladesh’s $22m hydrogen peroxide export business to a halt. Singapore is Bangladesh’s main transhipment port for the chemical. PSA lifted restrictions after the inventory level for hydro...

This will entail investment of around $250m across the shipping line’s 1.6 million boxes. While many reefer containers are already fitted with such equipment, Hapag-Lloyd is considered a first-mover in equipping ordinary containers with tracking, which includes GPS location data, tempera...

Ukrainian Black Sea and Azov Sea ports shut down shortly after the invasion, and Russian naval forces blocked Ukrainian facilities, threatening to attack any merchant (and non-merchant) vessels attempting to approach the terminals. At least 16 merchant ships have been fired on since the beginning of...

The carrier has not said how many of the lost or damaged boxes were carrying dangerous cargo, or indeed what any of the lost and damaged units contained. The company said: “APL Vanda has stopped at Djibouti to clear the damaged containers on deck before safely continuing her voyage. “Operations ...

“They had no idea the shipping container was full of toxic gas. But mere moments after opening it, the two workers began to feel the effects. One man fell unconscious, convulsing with epileptic seizures. The other felt an irritation in his throat and began salivating uncontrollably. “The cargo p...

AIS data shows the 17,300 teu ship is now docked at the China Merchants-operated Doraleh Terminal at 05:30 local time, after arriving under its own steam this morning local time. A CMA CGM statement delivered today, said: “On 3 July, APL Vanda reported that about 55 containers from a sin...

The ability to measure changes in temperature in real time potentially overcomes one of the main problems shipping lines have been struggling with for a long time – the early detection of, and tackling of, fires inside containers. “As an incident starts to unfold, having that early warning is cr...

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...

They will resort to finding unique selling points, which could see them turn to track and trace solutions. Recently, Hapag-Lloyd began to fit tracking and telemetry to its containers, stealing a march on its competitors and starting “a train that will not stop” among carriers, according to some ...