Container Schedule Reliability Falls to 62.6% as Peak Season Bites
Global container schedule reliability fell from 64.5% in May to 62.6% in June, with nearly 40% of vessels missing published schedules and average delays of 5.3 days.
Maersk Approaches Its Fleet Limits as Utilisation Hits 96%
Maersk chief executive Vincent Clerc says demand resilience has pushed vessel utilisation to 96% and second-quarter ocean volumes up 4.1%, forcing a reassessment of fleet expansion.
Maersk Launches Tangier-Casablanca Rail Link to Ease Port Congestion
Maersk has launched a high-frequency rail service between Tangier and Casablanca aimed at easing congestion at Casablanca, which handled 17 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of 2026.
Bangkok Maersk Makes First Suez Transit With 190,000-Tonne Cargo
Bangkok Maersk crossed the Suez Canal for the first time on 22 August, part of a northern convoy that also carried sister vessel Mathilde Maersk on Maersk's AE7 Asia-Europe service.
Amazon Drought Pushes Manaus Container Surcharges Toward $1,900 a Box
Container lines serving Manaus have published low-water surcharges ranging from $753 per teu to as much as $1,900 per box as the Amazon dry season approaches.
Maersk Expands Its AI Customs Platform as Tariff Exposure Gets Harder to Price
Maersk has widened Trade & Tariff Studio into a connected customs environment covering HTS classification, landed-cost modelling and audit readiness across a shipper's whole product catalogue.
Hapag-Lloyd Buys 25 Percent of APM Terminals Maasvlakte II
Hapag-Lloyd is taking a quarter of the automated Rotterdam terminal at the centre of the Gemini network, its terminal arm's latest move toward a 30-facility portfolio.
Maersk Drops Its Fleet Cap as Capacity Passes 4.7m TEU
Maersk has abandoned the 4.0 to 4.4 million teu ceiling that defined its strategy for the decade, with its operated fleet already past 4.7 million teu and CMA CGM closing the gap.
MSC Tests Suez Transits as Container Volumes Rise on the Corridor
MSC has sent seven eastbound vessels through the Suez Canal and Bab el Mandeb in two weeks, as Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd return services to a corridor CMA CGM never fully left.
Maersk to gradually resume operations at Venezuela's La Guaira port
Maersk has begun a phased return to operations at the Venezuelan port of La Guaira, following an earthquake in June that disrupted normal port activity.
Maersk goes from red to black
A.P. Moller-Maersk has sharply upgraded its guidance, now expecting an underlying operating profit of $2bn to $4bn this year, the clearest sign yet that 2026 is shaping up as another profitable year for container shipping.
HD Hyundai Samho delivers first very large ammonia carrier
The 93,000 cu m Jane Maersk is the first of five VLACs for Maersk, from a builder now holding 22 on order worth about $2.55bn.
Maersk revises peak season and emergency surcharges on key trade lanes
Maersk has announced new peak season surcharges for cargo moving to Saudi Arabia, North Europe and the Mediterranean, alongside revised emergency charges for exports from Oman and the UAE.
Maersk halts service to Ukraine's Chornomorsk Fishing Port amid renewed Russian attacks
Maersk has suspended its service to Ukraine's Chornomorsk Fishing Port following a fresh wave of Russian attacks on the country's maritime export routes.
Saudi Arabia's Mawani adds a Maersk service to Jeddah Islamic Port
Saudi Arabia's ports authority has added a Maersk service to Jeddah Islamic Port, strengthening the Red Sea hub's connections to the US, Morocco, Oman and India.
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd begin phased return to the Suez Canal
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will route some Gemini network sailings back through the Suez Canal, trimming a key Asia-Europe service by around four weeks.
Seaspan and Maersk widen containership efficiency drive
Seaspan and Maersk are extending their partnership with an efficiency programme across 18 chartered containerships, centred on a retrofit of four 13,000 teu vessels.
CMA CGM set to overtake Maersk as world's #2 boxline
é reported by French daily Les Echos. Saadé expects the Marseille-based carrier to move ahead of its Danish rival within roughly 18 months, though Linerlytica data suggests the switch could come as early as July 2027. T…
Maersk to order 1,000 made-in-India cargo containers
Maersk is set to place a commercial order for 1,000 steel containers with India's DCM Shriram, backing the country's push to break China's near-monopoly on cargo container manufacturing.
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