Topic: Container shipping

2,000 redundancies at Maersk, Safmarine and Damco cease to exist

Maersk is laying off 2,000 employees as a result of the large-scale reorganisation that started at the beginning of September. The end of Damco had been in sight for some time, but the Danish shipping...Read more

14-10-2020|Comment|author: Tobias Pieffers

Shipping ever safer but fires are cause for concern

The number of shipping disasters involving the complete loss of a ship fell to its lowest level ever last year. On the other hand, the growing number of serious fires on container ships is giving...Read more

24-07-2020|Comment|author: Mariska Buitendijk

Maersk introduces penalty for misdeclared out-of-gauge cargoes

Maersk is introducing a new penalty fee for the misdeclaration of out-of-gauge cargoes. The container carrier says it is experiencing too many incidents with shipments causing issues due to wrongly declared dimensions. The surcharge is...Read more

30-06-2020|Comment|author: Tobias Pieffers