Container shipping as it is bought and sold: carrier capacity and alliance strings, blank sailings, contract season, detention and demurrage disputes, charter and newbuild markets, and the regulatory fights that decide who pays when a box sits. Filed daily by two reporters in Long Beach and one in Rotterdam.
Live pricing from Ship & Bunker shows Singapore VLSFO above $916 a metric ton, with the spread between bunkering ports now wide enough to change where carriers choose to fuel.
The Canal Authority's indefinite postponement of a planned drop to 47.5 feet keeps the current 48-foot limit in place — a rare give-back after five straight tightenings this year.
Anemoi Marine Technologies will build a 35-meter rotor sail for a Maersk 8,700-TEU vessel, targeting roughly a ton of fuel and three tons of CO2 saved per day — a single-unit pilot, not yet a fleet commitment.
Sea-Intelligence's July data shows on-time vessel arrivals dropping across every one of the 13 carriers it tracks, with no exceptions — a rare full-market decline rather than a few laggards dragging the average down.
Rotterdam moved almost exactly as many containers in the first half as last year and 2.6% less weight — and that gap between boxes and tonnage is the clearest public measure of the empty problem nobody is tracking.
The carrier just posted a 46% jump in ocean operating income and told analysts the fourth quarter will come in below last year — the clearest date yet on when the transpacific squeeze ends.
