Press room

•  Charleston container volume up 4.6pc in last 7 months to 1.12 million TEU 2016/02/23
•  Newly created China Cosco Shipping to retain its old divided rival alliances 2016/02/23
•  Hs tats not in, Singapore off 10pc to 2.49 million TEU, Shanghai off 7pc 2016/02/22
•  A-E rate off 23pc US$332/TEU, Asia-Med off 24pc, USWC off 19pc 2016/02/22
•  East-west trade imbalance produces ever-rising box repositioning costs 2016/02/19
•  Cosco Pacific January volumes rise 0.7pc to 5.8 million TEU 2016/02/19
•  Cosco-CMA CGM plan with OOCL, Evergreen, would wreck most alliances 2016/02/18
•  CMA CGM levy Asia-Europe rate hikes headhaul and backhaul March 1 -15 2016/02/18
•  Mega-ships up Colombo's 2015 box volume 5.7pc to 5.18 million TEU 2016/02/17
•  OOCL implements shipping ban on whale, shark and dolphin 2016/02/17
•  Shippers seek delay in UN's forced box weigh-ins - delay impossible: WSC 2016/02/16
•  Transpacific rates from Asia to US east and west coasts remain flat 2016/02/16
•  Schedule reliability among shipping lines improves over course of 2015 2016/02/15
•  Big ocean carriers snared in five-year fault-finding probe 2016/02/15
•  TraPac may take part of Oakland's Outer Harbour after PA's exit 2016/02/04
•  Baltic dry index slips to new low as demand continues to fall 2016/02/04
•  January manufacturing PMI shows further Chinese contraction 2016/02/03
•  France's CMA CGM signs vessel sharing agreement with Iran's IRISL 2016/02/03
•  Cargotec to acquire German maritime IT firm, INTERSCHALT 2016/02/02
•  Reefer shippers can exploit expanded Panama Canal, says top US 3PL 2016/02/02
•  MOL restructures box and dry bulk, warns of US$1.45 billion loss 2016/02/01
•  A-E off 14pc to US$469/TEU, Asia-Med dropped 22pc to $488/TEU 2016/02/01
•  Seaspan to take delivery of 14,000-TEUer Taiwan's CSBC 2016/01/29
•  China could demand sanctions against EU after winning WTO appeal 2016/01/29
•  MSC offers new weekly loop from Yokohama to Djibouti from February 12 2016/01/28
•  AMP investigates sinking of cargo ship off Panama's Colon City 2016/01/28
•  Greek maritime unions hold 48-hour strike this week over pensions 2016/01/27
•  Hong Kong container volume surpassed by Ningbo-Zhoushan port 2016/01/27
•  Dutch 'disappointed' with OECD-backed EU order to cut port tax breaks 2016/01/26
•  Low-sulphur fuel sales almost triple in 2015 at Port of Rotterdam 2016/01/26