But the container shipping industry is facing its toughest period in at least a decade. Companies such as MSC, Maersk and CMA ...

A perfect storm in global trade is creating a shipping container capacity crunch, fueling a sudden and surprise spike in ocean freight rates. The beginning of peak shipping season, coupled with the ...

The largest container vessels in operation reveal the economic logic underpinning Asia–Europe trade and selective Middle East integration. The 5 largest container ships and the concentration of global ...

The container shipping market has become used to cyclicality over the decades, and it experienced an unprecedented peak in 2021 and 2022 with record rates and profits for liners. But with consumers ...

Dutch shipowner and manager JR Shipping takes over four container spring ships and is expanding its fleet again. Harlingen-based JR Shipping said that it has added three 1,436 TEU container feeders to ...

While drama in the container shipping sector has calmed a bit, container carriers still wrestle with unexpected drops in demand. Peter Sand, Xeneta, discusses vessel capacity moves and their likely ...

Continuing to modernize and expand its operations, the Port of Virginia recently debuted additional capacity to safely handle simultaneous calls of ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs).

Standard shipping container exterior showing width and structure commonly used for residential container home projects. The company provides clarification on shipping container dimensions relevant to ...

An ocean container capacity crunch has hit global trade just as peak shipping season starts, with freight spot rates up some 30% over the past few weeks and heading higher. Bad weather, longer ocean ...