A “mega” container ship slipped underneath the Golden Gate Bridge Thursday morning to the excitement of those gathered at Fort Baker near Sausalito. “It looks like a whole city, it’s huge,” said ...
The numbers are staggering. As of 12 July, Chinese and South Korean shipyards have delivered 21 ships of 12,500-20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) so far this year. That data, complied by IHS ...
* Q4 net profit falls 8 percent to $121.85 million * Pre-tax margin at 34.5 percent vs 32.9 percent last year SINGAPORE, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd, a top Chinese ...
Container ships more than doubled in size over the past decade to keep up with global trade. To make room for the 'mega' ships, Congress has allocated billions of dollars to deepen US ports. Experts ...
Giant ships are loaded down with cargo, mostly consumer goods during the pandemic, which is causing concern about more mishaps like the one in the Suez Canal, and containers going overboard. The head ...
It would be tempting to hope the recent stranding of the 1,300-foot, 220,000-ton Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal was a one-off — just a case of a very big ship getting stuck in a narrow ...