Maersk will apply a revised peak season surcharge (PSS) of US$1,000 per container on shipments from North Europe to the United States, effective 19 August 2026 until further notice. The surcharge ...

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Container volumes went flat in the first half of 2026, and the Port of Rotterdam Authority says the cause is a capacity shortage, not weak demand. Its remedy is close to 4m teu of new terminal ...

Live Transnet terminal schedules show 79 ships and 145,000 container moves queuing across South Africa's ports, as ICTSI, Liebherr and Beira reshape the regional map.

The IRGC's naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz claimed its first major container shipping casualties this week when COSCO's CSCL Indian Ocean and CSCL Arctic Ocean reversed course approximately 15 ...

The global container terminal industry has just completed what may be the most financially significant year in its history. Across every major operator and most port authorities that have reported ...

The US and Israeli military strikes against Iran that began on 28 February have triggered a simultaneous disruption of both the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, creating a dual chokepoint crisis ...

MSC Group's logistics arm MEDLOG has launched construction of a 500,000 teu dry port in Egypt, the latest in a sequence of multi-decade hinterland concessions assembled as a business model rather than ...

Maersk will launch its new AC1 Far East–West Coast South America service in July 2026, deploying eight vessels with individual capacities ranging from 4,000 teu to 5,000 teu. The service rotation ...

CMA CGM has christened the CMA CGM Osmium, a 13,000-TEU dual-fuel methanol container ship built by HD Hyundai Samho in South Korea. The carrier has assigned the vessel to the M2X service linking Asia ...

ABB's new Waterside Automation solution targets the over-vessel pick-and-place — the last manual step in an otherwise automated terminal — and pitches the systems integrator, not the crane builder, as ...

MSC's 1,000th ship and CMA CGM's Fattal acquisition landed in the same week, crystallising a divergence in capital allocation between the two largest carriers — one building physical infrastructure ...