Press room

•  China fines eight carriers US$65 million for price fixing 2015/12/31
•  Ningbo-Zhoushan port handles record 20m TEU in 2015 2015/12/31
•  Wal-Mart quits poor markets, mulls closing 5pc or 30 Brazil stores 2015/12/30
•  HSBC forecasts global trade to grow by 3pc in 2016 2015/12/30
•  Peel Ports Liverpool aims to draw off boxes from southern gateways 2015/12/29
•  CP disappointed with NS response, will review 'strategic alternatives' 2015/12/29
•  Box volume of Seattle-Tacoma rises 18pc in November to 283,945 TEU 2015/12/28
•  US and Cuba agree to resume normal direct postal service after 53 years 2015/12/28
•  Hamburg Sud ups USWC rate US$75/TEU and $100 from USEC to Oz 2015/12/25
•  Liners ask Hong Kong to spare alliances rigours of harsh competition law 2015/12/25
•  Busan Port's box throughput from January-October rises 4.8pc to 16.25 million TEU 2015/12/24
•  Port of Southampton docks 19,224-TEU MSC Maya, world's biggest box ship 2015/12/24
•  NYK Automotive Logistics opens new vehicle processing centre in Shanghai 2015/12/23
•  Transpacific box trade is forecast to rise by 5pc in 2015: Clarksons 2015/12/23
•  Dredging Charleston to 52-feet reaches pre-construction and design phase 2015/12/22
•  Canada seeks delay on ratifying Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal 2015/12/22
•  DP World mulls expanding Canada's Prince Rupert container terminal 2015/12/21
•  China's trade misses target, but beats global WTO average: Beijing 2015/12/21
•  Most ships now have Electronic Chart Display Information Systems 2015/12/18
•  Record load: UASC's 18,800-TEUer takes on 18,601 TEU at Port Klang 2015/12/18
•  Singapore court convicts local of doing business with N Korea arms trader 2015/12/17
•  Hong Kong port down 8.1pc in Nov to 1.6 million TEU, Singapore off 15.9pc 2015/12/17
•  MOL ups Asia-west coast South America rate US$750/TEU on January 15 2015/12/16
•  CMA CGM greets Christmas with a blizzard of Asia-Europe rate hikes 2015/12/16
•  Chinese navy carries out more drills in disputed areas of South China Sea 2015/12/15
•  CMA CGM levies US$150/TEU rate hike from Asia to the Comoros January 1 2015/12/15
•  Iran to order 600,000 TEU in newbuilds, 18,000-TEUers among them 2015/12/14
•  A-E rate up 156pc to US$703/TEU, down 6.4pc to USWC, off 7.3pc to USEC 2015/12/14
•  CMA up Asia-to-Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka rate US$100 this month and next 2015/12/11
•  Cosco-CSCL 'deal nearly done' - to be called China Cosco Shipping Group 2015/12/11