Gavin van Marle

1 week ago | theloadstar.com | Gavin van Marle

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) wrapped up its biannual decarbonisation negotiations last week with an agreement on greenhouse emissions that will lead to levies being applied to the most polluting vessels from 2028 onwards. Here’s some key takeaways. The agreement itself is not yet binding. The way the IMO – specially its Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) – works is that members meet in Spring to talk the talk and then reconvene in the Autumn to vote.

1 week ago | theloadstar.com | Gavin van Marle

After taking delivery of the 16,000 teu MSC Germany this week, Swiss-headquartered carrier MSC broke another record by becoming the first container line to reach 900 ships in its fleet. According to Alphaliner, the world’s largest shipping line’s total fleet capacity, including those of its subsidiaries, now amounts to 6.47m teu, around 2m teu ahead of second-placed Maersk Line.

1 week ago | theloadstar.com | Gavin van Marle

Following its clearance by competition regulators to complete its acquisition of DB Schenker, Danish freight forwarder DSV has announced a series of management changes at the newly merged entity. DSV said that it was now scheduled to formally complete the deal on 30 April. It also announced that current DB Schenker Europe region chief executive Helmut Schweighofer will become the new chief executive of the combined of the Road Division.

1 week ago | theloadstar.com | Gavin van Marle

Liner schedule reliability data continues to show the Gemini Cooperation achieving the highest on-time vessel arrival performance – although it is beginning to trend downwards. According to the eeSea liner database, which has begun to publish on-time arrival performance on a weekly basis, across all trades the Gemini partners Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, hit an on-time arrival rate of 86% for the first quarter of this year, way ahead of the other vessel sharing agreements (VSAs).

1 week ago | theloadstar.com | Gavin van Marle

Maritime accidents are usually a long time in the build-up – a collision course set while vessels are hundreds of miles apart; a cargo buried deep in a hold smoldering for days – and then they happen very quickly indeed. Could the same thing be about to happen to the entire container shipping market? The current state of play is thus: the eastbound transpacific trade may be half the size of the intra-Asia in terms of volumes, but the far higher rate ...