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Container lines to forge common IT platform

IT executives from MSC, AP Moller–Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, and Ocean Network Express plan to set up an association that will create common information technology standards for the container shipping industry. Members of the group identified a need for a neutral and non-profit body for ocean carriers that is driven by delivering benefits for the industry and its stakeholders. The standards will be openly available and free of charge to other ... [+]

Blockchain on test in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi Ports subsidiary Maqta Gateway is pilot testing the international blockchain solution Silsal in partnership with shipping line MSC. The project will test the capabilities of the technology to exchange, identify, and acknowledge cargo documents and certificates between Abu Dhabi Ports and other port operators. [+]

Indian subcont service swaps Felixstowe for London Gateway

MSC and its VSA partners in the IPAK service to and from the Indian subcontinent are to suspend the service’s Felixstowe call on and replace it with London Gateway from 9 September. It follows problems with a new IT system at the Suffolk port. [+]

Kenya National line ‘to rise again’

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta says that the country is planning to revive its state-owned shipping line with the help of the Mediterranean Shipping (MSC), according to news agency Bloomburg. Kenyatta has signed an agreement with MSC’s first vice president Giovanni Cuomo. The report says that the original Kenya National Shipping Line, ... [+]

Liverpool to handle biggest box ships yet

Peel Ports’ new Liverpool2, container terminal will handle its largest regular caller to date when the 2M (Maersk and MSC) alliance temporarily switch their TA2 transatlantic service from Felixstowe on 22 July. At the same time, Maersk Line’s Colombia Express will also start an export service from Liverpool to Newark, New ... [+]

MSC to make temporary cut to Asia/Europe service

MSC says it will make a temporary adjustment to its Asia-Europe services around the end of the third quarter or early in the fourth quarter of 2018 due to the anticipated slowdown in demand after the Golden Week holiday in the Far East. It plans to suspend one of its ... [+]

Felixstowe hit by IT woes

Shipping lines and freight forwarders are reporting continued disruption at the Port of Felixstowe after teething problems hit a new terminal operating system. MSC said it was carrying out a diversion plan to minimise the impact on customers, while Cosco said it was divert vessels and cancelling calls in the Suffolk ... [+]

MSC joins box data club

MSC has become the latest shipping line to register its global container fleet on BIC’s BoxTech Global Container Database. It makes available technical details of more than 10 million containers, 40% of the global fleet, to database users including shippers, forwarders, terminals and software solution providers. BIC secretary general Douglas ... [+]

Maersk Line container vessel on fire in Arabian Sea – four missing

A serious fire broke out on board the 15,262teu Maersk Honam while she was en route from Singapore to Suez at 15.20GMT on 6 March, 900 nautical miles southeast of Salalah, Oman. Following unsuccessful attempts to fight the fire, 23 crew members were safely evacuated to the ALS Ceres, but ... [+]

CINS wins safety award

The Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) has won the Bureau International des Containers 2017 Award. Presented annually, the award honours an individual or organisation for notable contributions to safety, security, standardization, or sustainability in containerised transportation. It was presented to CINS vice-chairman Ken Rohlmann of Hapag Lloyd, and Jean-Christophe Triat ... [+]

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