The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents more than 80% of the global shipping industry, has presented a roadmap for reducing carbon emissions to zero by 2050, if governments impose levies on shipping fuel...

A record number of container ships were stuck outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California last week. It was reported that at one point 73 ships were unable to dock, whereas usually—at least prior to C...

Another container ship ran aground in the Suez Canal yesterday, blocking the shipping lane—but this time, only briefly. The Coral Crystal, heading south and carrying 43,000 tonnes of cargo, was free within 15 minutes, ...

Shipping giant Maersk has purchased eight container ships are able to run on carbon-neutral methanol as well as bunker fuel, a significant step towards potentially decarbonising the shipping industry. Bought from Hyundai Hea...

The Ever Given, the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt back in March, finally reached the UK four months later than originally planned. Arriving at the port of Felixstowe yesterday, it drew a crowd of specta...

Egypt has dropped its compensation claim from the owners of the Ever Given, the container shipped that blocked the Suez Canal for six days, from $916 million to $600 million. According to Egypt, its claim includes damages du...

The International Chamber of Shipping, which represents more than 80% of the world’s merchant fleet, has called on the world’s governments to impose a tax on carbon emissions. The call has also been backed by org...

The stern of the Ever Given, a container ship that ran aground in the narrow Suez Canal due to strong winds, has been freed from the shoreline and refloated, according to canal authorities. The Ever Given has been blocking t...

Egypt’s Suez Canal has been blocked by a giant container ship, the Ever Given, that ran aground sideways due to strong winds. The ship was bound for the Netherlands from China. Authorities are working to refloat the 40...

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the branch of the United Nations that regulates global shipping, was hit by a cyberattack last week, taking down its website and internal web services. This followed an attack o...

In response to the devastating explosions in Beirut on August 4th, Lebanon authorities have ordered the house arrest of all port officials involved in the storage of the 2,750 tonnes of volatile ammonium nitrate responsible ...

Household appliances, building materials, and medical supplies including surgical masks have washed ashore on Sydney beaches after a container ship hit rough weather. The APL England was en route to Melbourne from China when...

Carrier CMA CGM has announced that it will be “blanking”—cancelling—a total of 23 North Europe-Asia voyages from the beginning of March to 2nd June, as a result of demand slowdown due to the coronaviru...

An abandoned cargo ship has washed up off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, after the tumult of Storm Dennis. The MV Alta, an 80-metre cargo ship built in 1976, hit trouble in September 2018 on a voyage from Greece to Haiti...

The coronavirus could be costing container shipping lines $350 million a week, according to maritime freight analyst Sea-Intelligence. The weekly export demand shortfall from China has been pegged at an estimated 300-350,000...

The shipping industry could spend up to $1.4 trillion over the next 30 years in order to meet the International Maritime Organization’s 2050 emissions target, according to a report from the University of London’s ...

A fire last week aboard the container ship COSCO Pacific was caused by misdeclared lithium-ion batteries, the company has announced. The incident occurred as the vessel crossed the Arabian Sea en route from Malaysia to India...

The coalition government of New Zealand has decided that sea freight operations in downtown Auckland are no longer viable, and plans are to be drawn up to move the operations elsewhere. The government agreed that the port, w...

The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) has published a new set of standards—or Business Requirement Specifications (BRS)—for data collected by smart containers. The s...

At the G7 summit this week, French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed France’s commitment to slow steaming as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry. It follows an earlier call by the Fren...

Shipping heavyweights CMA CGM, Cosco and Hapag-Lloyd are collaborating with terminal operators to launch the Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), a not-for-profit venture to promote the development of digital technology w...

Carriers’ decision to size up to 18,000-22,000 teu container vessels was a mistake, according to industry consultants who spoke to The Loadstar. While carriers have pursued economies of scale with the super-sized ships...

CMA CGM has added 50,000 sensors to sea cargo containers as part of a service of limited availability that will allow shippers to monitor exact location, external temperature and shock intensity during the voyage, as well as ...

One third of the owners of cargo aboard the Yantian Express, which caught fire in January, have refused to pay towards the general average. The general average, declared by shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, means that those with...