Container Management

791 Points Offline: How Jebel Ali’s Shutdown Reshapes Global Liner Shipping

For carriers, the minimum response is blank sailings on Gulf-linked rotations. But the deeper problem is whether any Gulf ...
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CMA CGM pushes dual-fuel tonnage into secondary trades with latest methanol vessel

CMA CGM has christened the CMA CGM Osmium, a 13,000-TEU dual-fuel methanol container ship built by HD Hyundai Samho in ...
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Salalah: Middle East’s only accessible container port as Hormuz and Red Sea close

The simultaneous closure of the Strait of Hormuz and resumption of Houthi attacks in the Bab el-Mandeb has created an ...
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Where Do the Boxes Go? Mapping Alternative Capacity Outside the Straits

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed and the Red Sea under renewed attack, the container industry faces a question ...
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Gulf War Risk Insurance Crisis: What the Iran Strikes Mean for Container Shipping

Shippers with cargo moving to or from the Persian Gulf face urgent decisions this week. Vessels already in transit may ...
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Hapag-Lloyd and DSV strike first multi-fuel decarbonization framework as regulatory pressure mounts

Hapag-Lloyd and DSV have signed what they describe as the first framework agreement of its kind to allow multiple sustainable ...
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Hormuz Blockade and Houthi Resumption Close Both Middle East Chokepoints to Container Shipping

For the first time in container shipping's history, both of the Middle East's critical maritime chokepoints are effectively closed to ...
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Maersk’s $2.5 Billion Question: Suez Return, Overcapacity and the 2026 Freight Rate Reckoning

Maersk's 2026 guidance contains a US$2.5 billion question, and the answer depends on a single variable. The company is ...
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The new terminal arms race: how carriers are redrawing the map of container shipping

The announcement that APM Terminals and Eurogate plan to invest €1bn in upgrading North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven marks the latest ...
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The brownfield problem: why APAC’s electric terminal equipment transition is an infrastructure question, not an equipment one

Walk the halls of any port equipment exhibition today and you will find electric variants of nearly every piece of ...
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The $23bn CK Hutchison Ports Deal That Could Redefine Global Terminal Ownership

When CK Hutchison announced in March 2025 that it would sell an 80 per cent stake in 43 container terminals across 23 countries to a BlackRock/TiL consortium for US$22.8bn, the deal was framed as a ...
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