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  • Cosco finds a way round car-carrier shortage to get BYDs to Brazil
  • World’s Container Fleet Capacity Set to Reach All-Time High
  • Prince Rupert’s big bulk-to-container transload facility debuts

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theloadstar.com /3 weeks ago

Cosco finds a way round car-carrier shortage to get BYDs to Brazil

Cosco Shipping Specialized Carriers, has started shipping BYD electric vehicles in frame containers to Brazil from Zhuhai Port, in China’s Guangdong province. The move is a solutio...

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supplychainbrain.com /1 month ago

World’s Container Fleet Capacity Set to Reach All-Time High

Ships larger than 12,000 TEUs have contributed two-thirds of the 10 million TEU added since early 2021.

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joc.com /1 month ago

Prince Rupert’s big bulk-to-container transload facility debuts

The Canxport facility has opened three years after it broke ground, providing British Columbia’s bulk commodity exporters a new container gateway.

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theloadstar.com /1 month ago

Container shipping health check – more room to manage the next supply wave

Container shipping is entering autumn with more underlying support than many expected in the bear camp. How so? Global teu-mile demand has grown 6.1% this year, ahead of roughly 5%...

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joc.com /6 days ago

Rotterdam's nine-month volume flat as carriers shift transshipment calls

The drop in transit cargo was a deliberate operational trade-off made to free up space for inland freight, which has allowed hinterland volume to grow sharply this year.

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theloadstar.com /4 weeks ago

Yangtze ports test the water with longer container shipping routes

China’s Jiangyin and Nanjing have become the latest Yangtze River ports to demonstrate ocean-going ambitions. Yesterday, Cosco Shipping Specialised Carriers, the Cosco group’s mult...

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maritime-executive.com /4 weeks ago

Overcapacity Looms Over Container Shipping as Supply Pressure Mounts

The return of container vessels to the Suez Canal - Red Sea route is likely to have a profound impact on the sector, especially as it continues to rol...

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joc.com /1 month ago

Asia-Americas container shipping system on a knife-edge

Potential pitfalls, from tighter Panama Canal restrictions to stronger-than-expected import volumes, should send a warning to shippers importing from Asia to the Americas, writes J...

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ukconstructionblog.co.uk /1 week ago

How to Organise a Shipping Container for Maximum Storage

The post How to Organise a Shipping Container for Maximum Storage appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Organising a shipping container properly can make a big difference to how...

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container-news.com /2 weeks ago

Why COSCO is building a project-cargo armada

Beijing’s specialised carrier is locking up the ships that will move China’s heavy industrial exports and changing how the heavylift market works. COSCO Shipping Specialized Carrie...

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container-news.com /1 month ago

Explainer: The shipping industry’s borrowed tailwind

Red Sea and Hormuz disruptions have handed container carriers a rare run of pricing power but the mechanism doing the work is one carriers do not control, and it is already reversi...

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container-news.com /1 month ago

Asian carriers order 14 container ships in new fleet expansion

Four Asian shipping lines have placed firm orders for 14 container ships, with options potentially increasing the combined total to 16 vessels. The orders cover ships ranging from...

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deccanchronicle.com /1 month ago

VOC Port Handles 335-m Container Ship from Brazil, Sets New Record

The vessel was said to have arrived from the Port of Santos, in Brazil, with 3,276 containers.

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freightwaves.com /3 days ago

No. 2 container line studying US-UK route for nuclear ships

Maersk is studying the safety and regulatory requirements for nuclear-powered container ships, including a potential U.S.-Europe route. The post No. 2 container line studying US-UK...

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chargedevs.com /3 weeks ago

Purpose-built containers changed how one company ships damaged batteries

Sponsored by Labelmaster. Damaged, defective or recalled (DDR) batteries are classified as dangerous goods, and shipping them safely usually means one battery per container. For Re...

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maritime-executive.com /1 month ago

Container Fleet Smashes 34M TEU Record as Fleet Growth Accelerates

Growth in the container segment of the shipping industry has been making headlines for a long time, but it just smashed through a record. Surpassing t...

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supplychain247.com /1 month ago

$750 Million CANXPORT Facility Opens in British Columbia

The $750 million CANXPORT facility adds capacity to move up to 400,000 containers a year from railcars to ships at Prince Rupert.

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theloadstar.com /3 weeks ago

Investment in China’s river ports brings ocean services closer to shippers

Wenzhou’s launch of a direct container shipping service to West Africa highlights a broader transformation under way across China’s port network, as improved infrastructure and ris...

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freightwaves.com /2 weeks ago

Global container volumes hit record 17.46 million TEUs

Global container volumes hit a record 17.46 million TEUs in August, while ocean pricing reached a two-year high, CTS reported. The post Global container volumes hit record 17.46 mi...

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container-news.com /2 weeks ago

Explainer: Container shipping is sharing the risk in NSR

Container ships on the Northern Sea Route now travel with a sanctioned tanker fleet, and Europe’s ports will decide what that means. The post Explainer: Container shipping is shari...

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freightwaves.com /1 month ago

Ocean rate concerns as orders for new container ships near 40% of global fleet

Orders for new containerships have expanded to nearly 40% of the active fleet, driven by contracts for large vessels. The post Ocean rate concerns as orders for new container ships...

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container-news.com /1 month ago

The container clears the port. In India, the real delay often starts on the highway

Container shipping measures performance obsessively at the ocean and the terminal: vessel schedules, berth waiting times, freight indexes, and port throughput. For good reason, tho...

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freightwaves.com /1 month ago

World container volumes post record 17.3 million TEUs in July

Unprecedented volumes demonstrate the underlying strength of global container trade, analyst says. The post World container volumes post record 17.3 million TEUs in July appeared f...

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joc.com /1 month ago

Cosco Shipping unveils nearly $3 billion in orders for 18 newbuilds

The larger of the two orders is for a dozen 22,000-TEU ships that the carrier said will “boost [its] competitive advantage” on routes such as the Far East to Northwest Europe.

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