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Iran Blames Israel for Blast on Container Ship in Mediterranean

Bloomberg | March 15, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

CMA CGM Bunker Recovery Adjustment Factor - Africa Lines

AJOT | March 12, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

CMA CGM Panama Canal Surcharge revision

AJOT | March 12, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Iran Says Container Ship Damaged by Blast in Mediterranean Sea

Bloomberg | March 12, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

CMA CGM Port Congestion Surcharge in UK ports for cargo ex India

AJOT | March 12, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

CMA CGM BAF update for Algeria & Tunisia Roro services

AJOT | March 12, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

MSC rate updates effective starting on April 10, 2021

AJOT | March 12, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

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House Republicans and Democrats Voice Concerns to FMC That Ocean Carriers Decline to Ship U.S. Agriculture Exports

Stas Margaronis | March 11, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

On March 9th, a group of Democratic and Republican Congressional representatives led by John Garamendi (D-CA) and Jim Costa (R-CA) announced that they authored a bipartisan letter to Michael A. Khouri, chair of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), voicing concern over reports that certain vessel-operating common carriers (VOCCs) are declining to ship U.S. agricultural commodity exports from U.S. ports.

CMA CGM from Morocco to North Europe, Baltic, Scandinavia & Poland

AJOT | March 11, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

CMA CGM Bunker Recovery Adjustment Factor - intramed short sea services

AJOT | March 10, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

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FBX Weekly: Ocean rates leveling off ex-Asia, but climbing on the transatlantic

AJOT | March 10, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Key insights: 1. Ocean rates ex-Asia have levelled off for the most part, with Asia-US East Coast falling 6%, US West Coast increasing 6%, and Asia-Europe 2. Strong demand and ocean carriers moving capacity to more lucrative lanes has pushed transatlantic rates up 20% since the end of January to $2,198/FEU after staying mostly on par year on year since the start of the pandemic. 3. Freightos.com search data shows port congestion at LA/Long Beach is leading shippers to look for alternative destinations, mostly on the East coast. 

MSC withdraws the port congestion surcharge for all Australian ports

AJOT | March 10, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

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Freight rate surge resulting in deferred drydockings

AJOT | March 10, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Nippon Paint Marine is seeing liner operators increasingly postpone dry-dockings as they look to keep vessels operational to meet the recent surge in demand for container shipments.

MSC bolsters trade between Southeast Asia and US West Coast with new Sentosa service
Maritime
AJOT | Top Story | March 10, 2021

MSC bolsters trade between Southeast Asia and US West Coast with new Sentosa service

MSC is introducing a new container shipping service in order to fulfill customer demand for cargo between southeast Asia and the U.S. west coast and with a view to improving reliability in the transpacific network at a time when the entire market remains under considerable systemic pressure. 
Maersk is said to weigh sale of $1 billion cold container unit
Maritime
Bloomberg | Top Story | March 10, 2021

Maersk is said to weigh sale of $1 billion cold container unit

A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S is considering a sale of its refrigerated container business as demand for the cold storage units surges during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to people familiar with the matter.
Exporters take unusual steps to ease container shortage
Intermodal
Bloomberg | Top Story | March 09, 2021

Exporters take unusual steps to ease container shortage

Some of the world’s biggest exporters in Asia are intervening to alleviate a shipping container shortage that jeopardizes their overseas trading.
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World Shipping Council appoints leading profiles in environmental and safety regulation in shipping

AJOT | March 09, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

The World Shipping Council (WSC) is excited to welcome to the team Mr John Bradshaw, in a global role as Technical Director for Environment and Safety, and Dr James Corbett as Environmental Director, Europe.

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MSC GRI scope: ECSA to USA & US Gulf to ECSA

AJOT | March 09, 2021 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

MSC will apply a General Rate Increase (GRI), effective April 15th, 2021 from East Coast of South America for the following trade:

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