4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (212+ words) ABB and maritime technology company Oceanly have teamed up to integrate voyage optimisation, vessel performance monitoring and asset diagnostics in a single operating environment. The first stage of the collaboration will see ABB’s voyage and route optimisation capabilities integrated directly…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (232+ words) The next containership size race could put fresh pressure on the world’s biggest container ports, with container analysts at Alphaliner arguing this week that vessels of around 27,500 teu are now technically and commercially plausible. The consultancy has revived a ‘gigamax…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (346+ words) 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 break through it. The consultancy has revived a concept it first floated in 2021 for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (280+ words) Thai dry bulk owner Precious Shipping has sold another ageing supramax for about $14.5m, pressing ahead with a fleet renewal drive that on the same day saw it take delivery of a new ultramax from China. The Khalid Hashim-led Bangkok-listed company…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (380+ words) Hong Kong-listed CSSC Shipping has signed up for ten 80,000 dwt bulk carrier newbuildings in China in a CNH3.235bn ($481m) fleet expansion. The ship leasing arm of state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corporation has entered into contracts with Chengxi Shipyard and China Shipbuilding Trading,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (288+ words) Hans Henrik Thaulow is an Oslo-based journalist who has been covering the shipping industry for the last 25 years. As well as some work for the Informa Group, Hans was the China correspondent for TradeWinds. He also contributes to Maritime CEO…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (274+ words) Port congestion is doing container shipping an enormous favour, absorbing 2.3m teu of vessel capacity at precisely the moment the industry is preparing for a potentially brutal release of tonnage from both newbuildings and a return to the Suez Canal. New…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (305+ words) Hong Kong bulker owner and operator Cetus Maritime is in talks to take interests in 13 vessels from Hong Kong-listed Seacon Shipping in a cash-and-shares transaction tied to the handysize specialist’s planned overseas listing. Seacon disclosed in a filing that it…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (278+ words) COSCO Shipping Holdings has signed up for another 18 containerships worth RMB20.27bn ($2.99bn), taking its newbuilding commitments in the segment this year to 48 vessels and around $8bn. The latest package is split between 12 LNG dual-fuel megamaxes at CSSC’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding and six wide-beam…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (633+ words) Ports increasingly face a problem that cannot be solved simply by looking at annual capacity: too many ships arriving at exactly the wrong time. A port can have enough cranes, berths and yard space to handle its annual cargo volumes…...