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[FBX Weekly] Ocean rates still sky high, but level as equipment shortage continues

AJOT | December 22, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

India invites bids to sell entire stake in shipping corporation

Bloomberg | December 21, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

ICTSI upgrades Cameroon terminal with new TOS

AJOT | December 21, 2020 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | Ports & Terminals

Kribi Multipurpose Terminal (KMT), the Cameroonian subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), recently implemented the Logstar®Terminal Operating System (TOS) as part of the company’s efforts to deliver world-class service at the Port of Kribi.

CMA CGM PCS in Bizerte, Tunisia

AJOT | December 21, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Navigating port congestion with global network, innovative logistics and technology

AJOT | December 21, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | Ports & Terminals

Leading global LCL consolidator, ECU Worldwide, has stepped up efforts to leverage its global network and innovative solutions to minimize adverse impact of port congestion at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports on customers’ global cargo shipments.

Traders at odds with China import ban keep coal cargoes in limbo

Bloomberg | December 21, 2020 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | Ports & Terminals

Seafarers stuck for months on vessels carrying Australian coal off China’s coast are trapped between authorities who won’t let them unload their cargoes and buyers who won’t let them leave.

Matson takes delivery of ‘Matsonia’

AJOT | December 21, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Matson, Inc., a leading U.S. carrier in the Pacific, today took delivery of Matsonia, the second of two new Kanaloa Class combination container / roll-on, roll-off ("con-ro") ships built for Matson by General Dynamics NASSCO. The two are the largest vessels of their kind ever built in the U.S. They join two new containerships, Daniel K Inouye and Kaimana Hila, themselves the largest of their kind in the U.S. commercial fleet, in completing the renewal of Matson's Hawaii fleet.

Owendo Container Terminal handles a record number of containers in connection with the visit of the Turquoise

AJOT | December 18, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | Ports & Terminals

On 14 December 2020, the container terminal at the port of Owendo in Gabon set an all-time record by unloading and loading 3,744 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers from and onto the container ship “Turquoise”.

CMA CGM Low Water Surcharge in Manaus, Brazil

AJOT | December 18, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

[FBX Weekly] equipment shortage sending Asia-Med rates beyond Asia-US level

AJOT | December 18, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

The continued peak in ocean container demand is keeping ports congested, equipment scarce and creating knock on effects on ocean rates, beyond the Asia-US lanes that are generating most of the demand.

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Bloomberg | Top Story | December 18, 2020

What happens when tycoons abandon their giant cargo ships

The pandemic has hastened the troubling practice of dumping vessels, with their crew and hazardous materials still on board

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AJOT | Top Story | December 18, 2020

National Shipping of America announces new service

National Shipping of America (NSA) has announced its new service under Marad’s American Marine Highway Program with the M-10 designation. This service is a domestic water service between NSA’s base port of Houston, TX to Port Everglades, FL which provides customers an alternative to over the road trucking. After calling Port Everglades, the service continues on to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Research from Lloyd’s List Intelligence shows how new UN push for decarbonization will increase ship scrapping in the next decade

AJOT | December 17, 2020 | Maritime | Technology

Hempel’s flagship hull coating Hempaguard X7 reaches milestone

AJOT | December 17, 2020 | Maritime | Technology

CMA CGM Empty equipment imbalance charge - Cargo from East Med, Black Sea & North Africa to Nigeria

AJOT | December 17, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

CMA CGM PSS - from East Med, Black Sea and North Africa to West Africa for January

AJOT | December 17, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

CMA CGM PSS - from East Med, Black Sea and North Africa to West Africa

AJOT | December 17, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

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Bloomberg | Top Story | December 16, 2020

Shipping sheds its dirty problem with a little help from Covid

It was meant to be one of the greatest transformations in the history of oil and shipping. Instead, a sweeping regulatory change this year to clean up the maritime industry’s fuel passed successfully and with little fanfare, rendered a historical footnote by Covid-19.

Seafarers, longshore labor, ocean carriers and MARAD all honored at virtual 2020 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award

AJOT | December 16, 2020 | Maritime

CMA CGM FAK rates from West Med, Adriatic, Black Sea & East Med to the ISC

AJOT | December 16, 2020 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

CMA CGM Freight All Kinds (FAK) rates as follows as from January 1st, 2021 (date of loading in the origin ports) until further notice but not beyond January 31st, 2021

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