Container Shipping

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Mid-Sized And Small Vessels Steer Container Market Growth
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Container Shipping Recent News

Ocean Freight Shipping Exchange Nyshex Nets $15M In Latest Round
Facilitator of two-way committed ocean contracts New York Shipping Exchange (Nyshex) announced Wednesday it has raised $15 million in a recent funding round.
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Surging Container Rates, Semiconductor Shortage Only Blips On Radar For Arrival, ELMS
Two electric van startups are facing different challenges in the months ahead, but at least one analyst remains supportive of both firms' long-term potential.
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FreightMango Partners With Vizion For Long-Term Visibility Needs
Established in India in 2019, the global freight marketplace FreightMango has attracted customers worldwide who struggle to find guaranteed capacity from well-vetted forwarders to support their growing international shipments.
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US Company Sues 'Collusive' Ocean Carriers, Alleging Price Manipulation
A U.S. manufacturer is accusing two of the world's largest ocean carriers of reneging on its container service contract for imports from Asia so that the carriers can instead charge other shippers exorbitant transportation rates on the spot market.
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Ever Given Containers Finally Being Offloaded At Port Of Rotterdam
Despite the early-morning hour, 5:15 a.m. Thursday in the Netherlands, the Ever Given "arrived amid great interest," according to a Port of Rotterdam statement. 
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Daily Infographic: New Container Prices Are Still Rising
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Port Of Savannah Sets Another Record, But Growth Seen Slowing
After reporting another record fiscal year of volume growth, the Port of Savannah's near-term encore is likely to be somewhat muted.
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EDRAY Receives $7M To Improve Port Logistics Through Flow Stacking
EDRAY, a drayage platform, is looking to revolutionize the way technology executes port logistics.   The company announced Tuesday it is looking to accelerate its growth and expand its suite of drayage solutions with a recent $7 million investment from logistics entrepreneur and investor Andrew Leto.
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Daily Infographic: Port Houston Posts 39% Year-Over-Year Container Volume Growth
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Ship Values Are Soaring Amid Secondhand Sales 'Frenzy'
Chalk up yet another record for ocean shipping. More vessels traded hands in the first half of this year than in any other six-month stretch — yet another industry signal that's flashing green.
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Port NOLA Issues Second RFP For $1.5B Container Terminal
The Port of New Orleans has issued a request for proposals for program management and controls services for development of its new $1.5 billion container terminal.
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12 HMM Container Ships' Sticker Price $1.57 Billion
HMM announced Tuesday that it will pay $1.57 billion for 12 container ships that each can carry 13,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. 
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More Container Ships Score 'Astronomical' $100,000/Day Rates
Multi-month container-ship charters continue to be signed at jaw-dropping rates above $100,000 per day. The market is getting even tighter, pushing charter rates and durations higher still. Even so, there's something to be said for shipowners taking a few chips off the table — and some are.
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Container Ship Scores 'Off The Charts,' 'Fantasy' Charter Rate: $135,000/Day
In a sign of just how frenzied the container market has become, a freight forwarder is reportedly paying $135,000 per day for a short-term charter of the S Santiago, a container ship with a capacity of 5,060 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). "Charter rates for short employment … have gone out of control," said Alphaliner in its new weekly report.
Port Of Savannah Year-Over-Year Container Volume Up 38%
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) reported this week the Port of Savannah had achieved its busiest April on record and its second-busiest month ever. The busiest occurred just one month earlier.
'The Best Quarter Ever' For Container Shipping Giant Maersk
As the saying goes: "Never let a good crisis go to waste." Before COVID struck, AP Moller-Maersk embarked on a transformation to become a global end-to-end logistics provider. The pandemic created an unexpected and unprecedented surge in cargo demand — which Maersk is now using to accelerate its corporate transformation.
Could America's Historic Import Crunch Get Even Worse?
The number of container ships at anchor off California is down from the all-time high, but that doesn't necessarily mean the U.S. import boom is winding down.
Inside The Now-booming Business Of Building Container Ships
In ocean shipping, present success often breeds future failure. Across the decades, freight-rate spikes have spurred newbuilding sprees, wiping out freight rates. Which brings us to today: Container freight rates are spiking and container-ship newbuild orders are surging at yards in China, South Korea and Japan. Is the ending of this story inevitable?
America's Container-shipping Gridlock: California Vs. Georgia
The spotlight has focused on the armada of container ships stuck in California's San Pedro Bay, awaiting berths in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
'Blue Wave' Stimulus Could Spur Import Surge On Top Of Surge
Could today's unprecedented boom in containerized imports just keep going year-round? Right through Chinese New Year in February? Through the second quarter, then the fall peak — and all the way into 2022? Could the already overwhelmed global trade network stay stuck at its ceiling until next year?
Container Slots Sell Out, Risking Holiday 'Shipageddon'
"The ships are 100% full. The containers are 100% full. You can't get a container built. You can't pick up a ship from the spot market.
Container Rates Are On Fire. How Can You Invest In That?
Containers have wrestled the ocean-shipping headlines away from tankers and bulkers as stratospheric China-to-California box rates approach $4,000 per forty-foot equivalent unit (FEU).
Seroka Working To Stem Tide Of Market Share Loss
The always cool and collected Gene Seroka nearly got fired up when talking about Southern California ports' loss of market share during a press conference on cargo volumes.