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    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Shipping industry legal action surges as Ukraine war drives ‘emotive’ disputes

      Falling profits and tension over Black Sea dangers behind rise in arbitration, lawyers say

      A container ship transits the Bosphorus
    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      Climate change
      Shipowners and traders clash over cost of climate regulations

      Dispute over who pays for cleaning up shipping emissions deepens struggle to decarbonise global trade

    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      Transport
      Logistics groups seek Asian bases to help clients offshore from China

      Trend is fuelled by cash reserves swollen by high pandemic-era earnings

      Containers are loaded onto a ship at a port in Hai Phong, Vietnam
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine defies Russian threat as container ship leaves Odesa

      Vessel safely clears Ukrainian waters despite Moscow’s warnings

      Container ship Joseph Schulte leaves the port of Odesa bound for Istanbul
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      LexClarkson PLC
      Clarkson/shipping rates: broker boxes clever amid container slump Premium content

      A crunch in global shipbuilding capacity may help support earnings from tanker broking

      A Maersk container ship sails out of the Yangshan port in Shanghai, China
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      AP Møller-Maersk AS
      Maersk forecasts long and deep contraction in global trade

      Container shipping group says companies are still cutting inventories

      A Maersk container ship docked in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      Shipping
      Shipping talks approach deal on ‘close to 2050’ net zero target

      Draft goals dismay environmentalists who had hoped for firm commitment from highly polluting sector

      Cargo container ship at Port of Rotterdam
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Shipping
      China urges developing countries to oppose ‘unrealistic’ shipping levy

      Emissions tax would impose high costs on maritime trade, says world’s largest exporter

      Black smoke emanates from a container ship leaving port
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      The Big Read
      The shipping rivals plotting divergent courses on global trade

      As Maersk’s alliance with MSC comes to an end, the companies are set to pursue strikingly different strategies

      A fisherman casts a rod as a Maersk container ship sits docked at the Port of Felixstowe in the UK
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Global container production falls as demand for goods sinks

      Steel boxes pile up at ports after sharp drop in demand following pandemic-era boom

      Shipping containers on a dock at a port in China
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      AP Møller-Maersk AS
      Maersk warns of ‘radically changed’ world as profits tumble

      Shipping group signals industry’s pandemic-driven boom is over as demand and freight rates fall

      A Maersk shipping container
    • Saturday, 29 April, 2023
      Elisabeth Braw
      How surreptitious shipping is helping Russia

      Vessels masking their transmission signals explain the surprising resilience of Moscow’s wartime economy

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
      CDL 1000: the start-up that thrived through the Covid logjam

      Chicago-based winner of FT/Statista ranking has flourished by applying tech to arcane processes in the logistics industry

      man in an office desk looking at monitor screens
    • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
      InterviewSupply chains
      Shifting production from China is impossible, says shipping boss

      Beijing’s world trade dominance will make cutting it out of global supply chains a tough task

      An OOCL vessel at a shipyard in Jiangsu, China
    • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
      World’s biggest container groups defend bumper dividends

      Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd deliver big payouts to investors despite threat of falling profits

      A Hapag Lloyd container ship
    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Container shipping costs plunge as consumer spending declines

      Global maritime trade has fallen to a shadow of pandemic peak as high inflation and reopenings hit goods purchases

      Shipping containers at Long Beach terminal
    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      AP Møller-Maersk AS
      Maersk forecasts plunge in profits

      Danish group expects drop from last year’s record $31bn to $2bn-$5bn in 2023

      The Nysted Maersk container ship enters the Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands
    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
      Maritime divorce puts Maersk’s strategy to the test

      As Danish shipping company seeks to transform into a broader logistics group, it faces rising competition from MSC

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Container shipping lines MSC and Maersk end alliance

      Groups to terminate partnership in 2025 as fierce rivalry over transporting goods intensifies

      Container ships operated by MSC and Maersk at Felixstowe, UK
    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Shipping hurt by weak demand for Chinese goods

      Carriers are skipping ports in China as international orders fall and supply chain problems persist

      Container ships at Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China
    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      InterviewAP Møller-Maersk AS
      ‘There will still be a global trade’: Maersk chief bows out after 40-year voyage

      Søren Skou set to hand over the rein with best results in Danish group’s history

      A cargo ship operated by AP Møller-Maersk in Qingdao, China
    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      AP Møller-Maersk AS
      Shipping line Maersk appoints new chief to deal with ‘challenging outlook’

      Head of Danish group’s ocean and logistics business to take over from company veteran Søren Skou

      Vincent Clerc
    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Supply chains
      US straightens out supply chains after months of inflationary snarls

      Freight rates drop on lower consumer demand and retailers’ early shipments

      Shipping containers at a rail terminal in Oakland, California
    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Trade Secrets
      Supply chain crunch easing, but ports as bad as ever Premium content

      Weakening world trade has reduced logistics snarl-ups, though poor infrastructure remains

      Containers stacked at the Port of Los Angeles
    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      AP Møller-Maersk AS
      Maersk warns global trade indicators at ‘dark red’ on looming recession

      Danish group expects earnings, demand and shipping freight rates to shrink

      Shipping containers are transported on a Maersk Line vessel through the Suez Canal
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