The new orders include 16 feeder ships averaging roughly 3,100 twenty-foot-equivalent units, and seven 5,900-TEU post-Panamax ...

Evergreen Marine plans 23 container ships in $1.47bn capacity push across feeder and mid-sized segments. Find the latest news from the maritime industry on the PortNews website.

The largest container vessels in operation reveal the economic logic underpinning Asia–Europe trade and selective Middle East ...

According to Mr. Baack, smaller vessels dominate the intra-regional trades, yet the fleet is aging, and the order book remains skewed towards larger ships. He highlighted favourable long-term demand ...

Container ships are the backbone of global trade, carrying 80–90% of the world’s non-bulk cargo and enabling the efficient transport of standardized containers across oceans. These vessels come in ...

Container ships are an astonishing feat of human innovation and engineering. Their size, weight, and capability to carry gargantuan loads of cargo across large expanses of the ocean have ...

“In 2023, 2.3 million TEU of container ship capacity was delivered, beating the former all-time high by 37%. Year-to-date another record has been set as more than 1 million TEU has already been ...

The return of vessel queues outside Singapore, and many other ports for the first time since Covid, points to trouble in the system that transports 45% of global trade by value. At least 6-7% vessel ...

When only six ships with a capacity of 4,746 TEU were contracted in the fourth quarter of 2023, many might have thought that the container ship contracting spree that began in 2021 had finally cooled.