The largest container vessels in operation reveal the economic logic underpinning Asia–Europe trade and selective Middle East ...

A perfect storm in global trade is creating a shipping container capacity crunch, fueling a sudden and surprise spike in ocean freight rates. The beginning of peak shipping season, coupled with the ...

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 ...

The world's largest capacity container ship has set off on its maiden voyage. Measuring 400 m (1,312 ft) in length and 58.6 m (192 ft) wide – or the size of four soccer fields for those more familiar ...

Dutch shipowner and manager JR Shipping takes over four container spring ships and is expanding its fleet again. Harlingen-based JR Shipping said that it has added three 1,436 TEU container feeders to ...

Tugboats, dredgers and excavators have finally made some progress in their efforts to free a huge container ship stuck in the Suez Canal for nearly a week. After a tough weekend, engineers managed to ...

In recent years, market analysts have considerably widened the parameters they track to assess growth in countries, regions, and globally as far as container shipping goes. One often-overlooked ...

Take a look around you. Perhaps you’re snacking on a banana, sipping some coffee, or sitting in front of your computer and taking a break from work to read this article. Most likely, those goods—as ...

A total of 302 of 2,693 containership sailings, or 11%, have been canceled in May on all the main line trades, according to the latest data from maritime intelligence company eeSea, revealing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...