Tag: containerships

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. has secured a $3.72 trillion ($2.59 billion) order to build 12 LNG dual-fuel container ships.

The Port of Long Beach ended 2024 with 9,649,724 twenty-foot equivalent units processed, up 20.3% from a year earlier and a 2.8% increase from the previous record of more than 9.3 million TEUs moved in 2021.

Brazil's Minister of Ports and Airports, Silvio Costa Filho, has announced that the auction for STS10, a new container terminal at the Port of Santos, is scheduled between October and November this year.

Kawa Shipping has placed an order for three 4,800 TEU dual-fuel LNG container ships with Wuhu Shipyard, with an option for a fourth vessel.

According to Alphaliner data, demolition sales of container vessels in 2024 drop by half compared to 2023.

The MRCC operated by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) was alerted about a freighter in distress.

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group has awarded a contract to TMC to deliver its compressors to six mid-sized container vessels for Maersk.

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Niels Rasmussen, Chief Shipping Analyst, looks at the container ship order book which has reached a new record high.

Rates for shipping containers from Asia to the US surged as the deadline to avoid a strike at US Gulf and East Coast ports nears.

In 2024, the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) achieved a remarkable milestone, recording its highest-ever throughput of 2.41 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), despite facing competition.