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Our blog shares articles related to shipping containers. DropBox, Inc. is an ISO shipping container modification company that specializes in designing, engineering, and manufacturing containerized solutions and engineered enclosures. For over two decades, DropBox Inc. has offered customers solutions both for sale and rent.
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11h ago
Hong Kong-headquartered blockchain platform Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN) has welcomed Ocean Network Express (ONE) as its latest member, joining founders such as COSCO, OOCL and Hapag-Lloyd as well as port companies including PSA and SIPG. “By joining GSBN, ONE gains access to the consortium’s blockchain-enabled platform, which facilitates secure and trusted exchange of data ..read more
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2d ago
Container shipping has been relying on one of its top tricks in its playbook to rein in the worst of the markets by going super slow. According to Clarksons Research, the container fleet moved at all-time slow speeds in Q1, with analysis from BIMCO suggesting that ships could go slower still. During the covid pandemic ..read more
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5d ago
Dutch shipping company Future Proof Shipping (FPS) officially launched its first hydrogen-powered inland container ship, H2 Barge 1, in Rotterdam yesterday, claiming it is a zero-emissions vessel. The ship was retrofitted with money coming from state coffers. Earlier in the week, Nike introduced the H2 Barge 1 at its European Logistics Campus in Laakdal, Belgium ..read more
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5d ago
Rodolphe Saadé, at the helm of a company which made more money last year than any other corporate in French history, is increasingly becoming a media mogul to add to his transportation background. CMA CGM, headed by Saadé, announced today it is buying La Tribune, one of France’s top business titles, adding to a stable ..read more
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5d ago
Stagnating trade and a ballooning surplus of shipping containers, following easing of pandemic era supply chain constraints, has led to a collapse in newbuild container output, which is forecast by UK consultants Drewry to slump to its lowest level in 14 years. Drewry estimates that global box production contracted 71% year-on-year to 306,000 teu in ..read more
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6d ago
Working with Seaspan, the world’s largest boxship lessor, the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping yesterday revealed the design of an ammonia-powered 15,000 teu container vessel. The ship measures 350 m in length between perpendiculars and 53.6 m in breadth. Its design incorporates a dual-fuel engine that runs on very low sulphur fuel ..read more
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6d ago
Contrasting ship sector fortunes have been reflected in South Korea where French automotive giant Renault has started shipping brand new cars in containers to avoid prohibitively high costs associated with the car carrier sector. Car carrier fortunes have been hitting record figures for the past 15 months, while container earnings have slid from their all-time ..read more
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1w ago
New-look containerships have been ordered at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. France’s Zephyr & Borée has finally put pen to paper for a series of five 1,300 teu ships which it claims are zero carbon, in a project that has been many years in the making. The ships, scheduled for delivery from late 2025 through mid-2026, are ..read more
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1w ago
One of the most famous names in German shipping died yesterday. Bertram Rickmers, 71, fell down some stairs while celebrating his wife’s 60th birthday, according to German media title Bild. “At this hour our thoughts are primarily with Bertram Rickmers’ wife Franziska, his three children and five grandchildren, to whom we extend our deepest sympathy ..read more
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1w ago
A total of 661 containers were lost overboard in 2022, out of 250m transported, representing the lowest losses in percentage since the Washington-based liner lobby group, the World Shipping Council (WSC), started the survey in 2008. The number is less than one-thousandth of 1% (0.00026%) of the containers currently shipped each year, with cargo transported ..read more