After more than two years of chronic delays in container shipping, shippers are finally seeing continuing improvements in both transit times and in port delays, according to the latest metrics measured by Drewry Shipping Consultants. Since January, por…
The development of low sulfur fuels through the introduction of IMO2020 has been the most significant change to the way in which the global fleet has been powered since the introduction of the diesel engines in the maritime industry a little over 100 y…
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New technology and increasing automation and digitalization are combining to streamline the efficiency of the maritime industry. But along with the increasing number of integrated vessels featuring multiple interconnected systems comes the threat of re…
The global pool of shipping containers increased by 13% to almost 50 mteu in 2021, which was three times prior trend growth. This reflected lessors and ocean carriers ordering a record number of containers, while retiring fewer ageing units, as congest…
Container shipping’s equipment surplus is manageable and will recede Read More »
Digitalization of the maritime industry is set to radically enhance the operational efficiency, safety and environmental performance of ships, but right now it is taking place in a fragmented way, with no pan-industry alignment on data infrastructure r…
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