MSC Set to Overtake Maersk as the World’s Largest Container Line
FRANCE : Taking into account MSC’s new orders, as well as the company’s active involvement in the secondhand tonnage market, it can be said that it is all set to overtake Maersk on a
Shipping industry urged to do more to digitalise operations
Calls at conference to also step up vaccination of stranded seafarers, push for cleaner fuels SINGAPORE : More than 200,000 seafarers worldwide are either still stranded on ships or waiting to board them as
Ever Given still ‘stranded’ in Suez waters amid legal fracas
Although freed inside the Suez Canal, the megaship Ever Given and its cargo remain impounded in Egypt as its insurers dispute the bill for last month’s shipping logjam. EGYPT : The Suez Canal Authority
Jammu & Kashmir Logistic Coordination Committee constituted
JAMMU : The government on Friday constituted a 9-member Logistic Coordination Committee for integrated development of the logistic sector in Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier, through a separate GAD order no 360, the Principal Secretary
India framing 10-yr action plan to increase domestic steel shipping container manufacturing capacity
Special Secretary (Logistics) Pawan Agarwal said one of the “serious” issues that the country is facing in creating an ecosystem for container manufacturing is availability and costing of special steel used to make those
‘Sky’s the limit’ for already lofty container-ship charter rates
Alphaliner: ‘New significant milestones have been achieved on the rate front’ NEW YORK : Just when you thought container shipping couldn’t get any hotter, it has. Liners are desperate for more ships to handle
Biden’s ambitious GHG cuts will target shipping
NEW YORK : President Joe Biden on Thursday officially announced the new target for the US to achieve a reduction of up to 52% from the 2005 level of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2030.
Climate change: Shipping industry calls for new global carbon tax
Implementing a new tax will be complex, says Guy Platten, secretary-general of the International Chamber of Shipping The global shipping industry is calling on the world’s governments to tax its carbon emissions. Groups that
No cracking signs in exports flow despite emergence of Corona’s fresh wave, says FIEO President
NEW DELHI : In the history of Indian exports the year 2020-21 was undoubtedly the most topsy turvy with the first wave of Corona massively destabilising the goods flow particularly in the first quarter.
Ship Operators Move Toward LNG to Pare Emissions
Natural gas-powered vessels are becoming more popular as a halfway measure as a search continues for non-carbon-based fuels SHANGHAI : CMA CGM’s first LNG-powered container ship at its launch in Shanghai in 2019. Though