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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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16h ago
Singaporean shipowner Grace Ocean and shipmanager Synergy Group face trial in Baltimore after lawyers for the city filed a case yesterday, claiming the ship that knocked over a huge bridge killing six people last month had left port with “unseaworthy” conditions. The legal battle over the Dali containership’s fatal allison with the Francis Scott Key ..read more
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16h ago
The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) legal committee is meeting this week in London and is discussing one of shipping’s darkest, most intractable problems, crew abandonment, with record numbers of seafarers being left to fend for themselves by owners across the world. Latest statistics from the database coordinated by the IMO and sister United Nations body ..read more
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2d ago
The world’s leading shipping associations have highlighted the inequality seafarers face as hostages. “The world would be outraged if four airliners were seized and held hostage with innocent souls onboard. Regrettably, there does not seem to be the same response or concern for the four commercial vessels and their crews being held hostage,” states an ..read more
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5d ago
A Japanese feeder line has embarked on a zero-emission boxship project. Imoto Lines, together with compatriot tech firm Marindows, is aiming to produce ships that achieves zero CO2 emissions not only during operation but also within ports and while docked. State funding has been granted for the development. Imoto intends to create a hybrid ship ..read more
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6d ago
Liner lobby group, the World Shipping Council (WSC), has appointed Joe Kramek as its new president and chief executive officer. Kramek will succeed John Butler, who will retire at the end of July after nearly a decade at the helm. Before taking the top job, Kramek served as the WSC’s director of US government relations ..read more
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1w ago
Japanese liner Ocean Network Express (ONE) has unveiled a reduced emissions shipping service designed to meet the shared decarbonisation goals of the shipping industry. The new shipping service, named ONE LEAF+, offers customers the opportunity to manage their emissions and minimise environmental impact across the value chain. The name is short for “low emission-able freight ..read more
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1w ago
Hapag-Lloyd is being tipped to seek out further acquisition targets in order to remain in touching distance of the top names in liner shipping. Germany’s top carrier unveiled its medium-term business plans through to 2030, which include an aggressive fleet growth with the line’s CEO, Rolf Habben Jensen claiming the goals were the company’s “most ..read more
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1w ago
Shanghai has built up an unprecedented commanding 10m teu lead over its nearest boxport rival in rankings of the top 30 container ports worldwide compiled by Alphaliner. Shanghai has been the world’s largest container port for the last 14 years, beating Singapore into second place. It now stands on the cusp of being the first ..read more
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1w ago
The Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), an initiative of Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels (coZEV) facilitated by the Aspen Institute, which includes the likes of IKEA, Nike and Amazon as founding members, has selected the winner of its first tender. ZEMBA announced Hapag-Lloyd had won the two-year contract to ship goods on voyages ..read more
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1w ago
The US west coast will bid farewell to a container destination come the end of September. Officials at Portland in Oregon have decided to close and likely repurpose the city’s sole mothballed container terminal this autumn as the facility no longer has any regular customers and has been losing millions of dollars for the past ..read more