Maersk Line

Shippers believe container line consortia are anti-competitive and lack transparency.

Cargo rate platform adds “deep link” to Maersk’s booking portal.

Advent Intermodal is seeking to increase transparency along the Panama “land bridge” between the coasts.

Crude-tanker rates have now reached levels not seen since before the global financial crisis.

This week, VLCC tanker rates are rising, whereas both trans-Pacific box rates and Capesize bulker rates are slipping.

Dry bulk spot rates have pulled back from recent highs, while trans-Pacific container rates have held their gains.

The beleaguered dry bulk shipping sector is nearing its post-financial-crisis peak. Is it sustainable?

Maersk is partnering with Indian digital freight startup BlackBuck to enter the Indian containerized trucking market for export-import logistics.

Barbara Spector Yeninas had the moxie to launch a business serving the male-dominated maritime industry 45 years ago. That determination has kept her going for more than four decades, although these days she’s wearing sneakers instead of stilettos.

The Caribbean is container shipping’s all-important crossroads of the Americas.

It has now been a half-decade since the emergence of large-scale container liner alliances. What’s their track record?

Competiton regulations prevent container shipping lines discussing individual cargo owners between themselves, but this regulation may prevent the lines from warning each other about the potential dangers of a cargo. Its time for a change in the rules some say.

The latest economic projections from the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development predict a global slow down in trade. Acquiring a new business in this climate is a challenge that CH Robinson has accepted.

Restructuring of the global economy means that manufacturers are shifting their production centres nearer to the markets they serve, in a process that Maersk calls reshoring or near-shoring, and poses a risk to the liner industry’s future revenues.

Maersk says it will expand the technology behind its customs house brokerage business as well as developing its integrated logistics business.

Maersk makes a move for Vandergrift Inc. as it steps up its efforts to become a genuine door-to-door operator.

Container shipping line Maersk will move 16 containers on river Ganges (National Waterway-1) from Varanasi to Kolkata in India on February 12, marking the entry of commercial shipping players in India’s nascent inland water transport network.

Overcapacity and low utilization rates have plagued the Asia to Europe trades for some years, and with a further 1.1 million TEU capacity set to be delivered between now and the end of 2020, the supply and demand ratio is expected to affect freight rates up to the end of 2022.

Reefer technology is changing fast and the internet of things is helping to accelerate changes to the industry. Maersk has launched an upgrade to its reefer container management system that includes the virtual sailor, captain Peter.

Zim and the 2M Alliance have signed a secind vessel sharing agreement in the trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe trades. The deal significantly boosts Zim’s service offerings while 2M says the new deal offers mutual benefits and efficiencies.