Posts Tagged 'shipping industry news'

Monday 28/03/22

Maersk has confirmed that its chartered vessel Dyros lost around 90 containers overboard in rough seas, in the North Pacific, around 1,200 nm east of Japan on Monday (21/03) , and the losses included nine boxes containing dangerous cargo.

The Costamare-owned 4,578 teu vessel was en route to Seattle from Yantian, but will now be diverted to another port to handle around 100 damaged boxes still on board.

Maersk said “We regret to confirm that the 4,578 teu, Liberia-flagged vessel Dyros, chartered ...

Tuesday 15/03/22

A.P. Møller Maersk, CMA CGM Group, and Hapag-Lloyd have been asked to provide documents and information to explain the reasoning behind increased shipping rates over the past two years, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis and the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy sent the letter asking the carriers to provide requested documents and information by March 16.

Each letter states that the committees are concerned the carriers in question “may have engaged ...