Mediterranean Shipping Company

COVID has been great for container shipping, terrible for cruising. What does this mean to MSC, which is big in both?

Container lines and tanker owners rapidly and preemptively suspend business with Russia.

MSC, a giant shipping line, wants to buy an Italian airline. If successful, it will then be in the passenger airline and air cargo businesses.

MSC sues Deere, patent owner sues six shipping lines, box-overboard cases pile up, and Hanjin’s ghost tries to collect.

Shipping lines are flush with cash and using it to expand into logistics services.

The latest example of an ocean carrier expanding into the logistics space involves MSC trying to buy a piece of Bolloré Logistics.

A small number of non-U.S. entities determine vessel and container levels for U.S. ocean supply chains.

The maritime meeting among trade partners comes as container shipping remains hot.

New details on record 2019 cocaine haul aboard MSC Gayane — which may not have been the first run — as U.S. wraps up convictions.

Cosco and MSC fight back against accusations that they inflated rates, violated contracts and broke U.S. law.

A U.S. manufacturer defends its complaint filed against container ship giant MSC with the Federal Maritime Commission despite the carrier’s denial of contract violations.

The container ship now is expected to anchor in San Pedro Bay on May 1.

More than a third of the crew on the MSC Gayane smuggled cocaine in June 2019. The first prison term has just been handed down.

Pearl service customers’ imports likely will be delayed arriving from Asia.

Twenty tons of coke was found aboard an MSC ship in 2019. MSC just revealed that it’s spending $100 million more on security in response.

The lack of Lunar New Year shutdowns contributes to the busiest February on record.

Will your cargo ship arrive on time? Globally, the chances are now 50-50. In the Asia-U.S. container trade, it’s less than one in three.

Ocean carriers toed the line on capacity control in 2020. What does this new normal mean to shippers, yards and leasing companies?

The French shipping giant’s network is down.

China could decide enough is enough if trans-Pacific rates rise too high.