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Container shipping

  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    Maersk resumes shipping through Red Sea after ceasefire

    Industry’s return to the corridor would cut transit times and lower freight rates

    The Maersk Athabasca container ship, loaded with multicolored shipping containers, sails through the Suez Canal.
  • Wednesday, 10 December, 2025
    CMA CGM to step up Red Sea journeys as Houthi tensions ease

    Shipping companies eye shorter routes through Suez after rebels signal halt to attacks

    A CMA CGM container ship carries stacked shipping containers through the Suez Canal.
  • Thursday, 6 November, 2025
    Global trade
    China ‘stability’ buoys global trade as Maersk defies Trump tariff fears

    Danish group lifts financial guidance to top end of range on strength of consumer demand

    Vincent Clerc speaks during a press conference
  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    Energy Source
    Honeywell unveils new technology to decarbonise heavy industries

    Also in today’s newsletter, Swedish zinc mine hosts the ‘world’s deepest marathon’

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    Aerial view of a large MSC container ship approaching a port terminal in Qingdao, with stacked cargo containers and high-rise buildings nearby.
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    Trump’s port fees will weaken China’s shipbuilding dominance, says shipping boss

    Fleet owners are already rethinking orders from Chinese yards, says head of Japanese Shipowners’ Association

    Hitoshi Nagasawa stands behind a glass case displaying a detailed model of a NYK Line cargo ship.
  • Monday, 15 September, 2025
    Shipping industry enlists AI to tackle rising number of cargo fires

    Failure to declare dangerous goods and ever bigger ships mean blazes are more common and harder to put out

    The Singapore-flagged containership Wan Hai 503, suffered a serious fire while traversing the Indian Ocean in June
  • Thursday, 7 August, 2025
    Maersk brushes off US tariffs to lift outlook

    Container shipping boss says ‘weakness in the US’ balanced by strength elsewhere

    A Maersk container ship, cranes and hundreds of containers at the Port of Los Angeles
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Milne
    Market squalls threaten to throw container shipping off course

    How does an industry that built and benefited from globalisation survive when its main cheerleader turns on it?

    A container ship arrives at Lianyungang port
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Supply chains
    European ports ‘overflowing’ as Trump tariffs cause congestion

    Barges and container ships face unusually long waits at major hubs with problems expected to last several months

    Container ships at Hamburg
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Shipping
    Oil tanker owners reluctant to brave Strait of Hormuz, Frontline chief says

    Israel’s strike on Iran raises questions about waterway handling quarter of world crude oil supplies

    The crude oil tanker Front Altair owned by the Norwegian company Frontline
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Visual investigation
    How smuggled US fuel funds Mexico’s cartels

    Sophisticated criminal networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico’s president

  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    Special ReportOceans
    Shipping lines go cool on Arctic Ocean route

    Melting ice could make shorter transits between Asia and Europe a reality but there are economic and geopolitical risks

    Maersk’s new ice class container vessel, Venta Maersk, is seen docked at the port of Saint Petersburg on September 28, 2018
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Panama port owner’s deal fuels fears of dominance by world’s top shipping group

    CK Hutchison’s $23bn sale has raised worries of MSC’s increased control of global port infrastructure

    Montage shows MSC ship in dock at Hutchison’s Felixstowe port against a data backdrop
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    ExplainerFT Guides
    Supply chains and logistics

    From drones and robots to driverless trucks, a look at the technological changes in logistics

    A worker in a high-visibility orange safety vest and black shirt stands in a large warehouse
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    FT GuidesSupply chains and logistics
    US port operators turn to automation

    Terminals increasingly look to robots amid rising demand

    A stylized digital illustration of a cargo ship carrying stacked containers against a muted brown background
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    CMA CGM SA
    French shipping magnate Saadé pledges $20bn US expansion in nod to Trump

    Boss of CMA CGM says expansion will add further 10,000 jobs in US

    CMA CGM chief Rodolphe Saadé, left, announced the move in the Oval Office on Thursday
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    LexTrump tariffs
    Trump trade overhaul clouds China’s shipping forecast

    US president’s proposed new fees risk higher costs for companies, consumers and a struggling global trade system

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    A Cosco container ship at sea
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    Shipping
    Russian ship under sanctions over N Korea arms sails for Europe

    Entry of notorious Maia-1 into European territory waters would pose fresh challenge to western sanctions system

    Maia-1, formerly known as Neptune Crown, pictured in November 2020
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    AP Møller-Maersk AS
    Maersk chief expects no ‘massive impact’ from tariffs and forecasts trade growth

    Vincent Clerc makes prediction as shipping group reports rise in operating profit to $6.5bn for 2024

    A Maersk container ship is docked at Aarhus Havn in Denmark
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Shipowners’ record order book for container vessels prompts downturn warnings

    Total capacity of ships on order overtakes pandemic levels despite uncertain outlook for global trade

    An MSC container ship and cranes at  the San Antonio port in Chile
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Shipowners switch to smaller vessels as world trade reroutes from China

    Attacks on Red Sea ships have also hit demand for bulkiest carriers

    Aerial view of a Panama-registered cargo ship at the Longtan Wharf of Nanjing Port in China
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Russia
    Russian cargo ship sinks in Mediterranean after engine room explosion

    The Ursa Major had been under US sanctions linked to war in Ukraine

    The Ursa Major on the Bosphorus in Turkey last year
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    AP Møller-Maersk AS
    Maersk chief predicts intensifying trade tensions after US elections

    Increasing gap between export growth from China and west could lead to increasing hostilities, says Vincent Clerc

    The Gudrun Maersk container ship is docked at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai, China. The ship is heavily loaded with stacked shipping containers, and large cranes are positioned above.
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    LexElectric vehicles
    Global EV ructions will put a drag on shipping too

    Laeisz’s deal to sell its pure car and truck carriers fleet is a hint that the market has peaked

    Premium content
    Rows of Zeekr electric vehicles covered in protective white sheets are lined up at the Port of Taicang in Jiangsu Province, China, awaiting shipment to Europe. The cars are neatly arranged in a large parking area.
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    News in-depthCorporate Person in the News
    Harold Daggett, US port union boss disrupting global trade

    The powerful longshoremen president has closed eastern and southern US docks

    Harold Daggett with striking dock workers
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