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The Mediterranean Shipping Company has announced the launch of a new container liner service (#2811) between Florida and the Dominican Republic. The new weekly connection is set to kick off in the middle of June. MSC will deploy a single vessel to the new loop, which will call at Port Everglades, Caucedo, Rio Haina, Port […]

Hapag-Lloyd today announced the launch of a new Italy – Egypt – Turkey service, branded ‘LEX’ (#2810). The new weekly fixed-day service will call at: Cagliari, Genoa, Livorno, Naples, Salerno, Cagliari, Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said, Mersin, Izmir, Cagliari. Effectively, it will thus be a butterfly loop based at the Sardinian port of Cagliari, the main […]

The Bulletin Panama (blog)Maersk and Wilmington open new access to Central AmericaThe Bulletin Panama (blog)Maersk has been moving cargo weekly between the Port of Wilmington and Honduras and Guatemala for four years. Volumes in the first quarter of 20…

Following a number of recent developments on the Far East to Australia trade lane, the Chinese carrier Coscon is expected to increase significantly the size of ships it deploys on the trade. Over the next couple of months, Coscon should start to phase overpanamax ships of close to 6,000 teu into the trade formerly maintained […]

Samco slams speculative building as nations shore up their industrial base to boost jobs

Zim is to put an end to its involvement in the two Northern Europe related Transatlantic services that are currently part of the Israeli carrier’s offer. Zim is to leave one service where it acts as a tonnage provider: Zim’s ‘ATX’ (#129) – the 28-day ‘Transatlantic’/’Atlantic Express’ service operated jointly with Hamburg Süd (which provides […]

Charity urges London insurance market to do more to help seafarers and their families

Schemes postpone the crunch but cannot eliminate it, lawyer warns

A ship finance expert remembers the fall-out for banks from previous downturns