Container Management

HMM's onshore labour union has announced plans for a general strike and legal injunctions to block the South Korean government's push to relocate the carrier's headquarters from Seoul to Busan. In a statement issued on 3 March, the union said...

When Gemini returned its ME11 service to Suez routing on 3 February, the alliance staked its 2026 network design on a bet that the strait was safe enough to justify shorter transits. The assumptions behind that bet were invalidated within...

Colombo has the connectivity. Whether it has the physical capacity to absorb a meaningful share of Jebel Ali's redirected container traffic is the question carriers are now trying to answer in real time. Speaking at the S&P Global TPM conference...

CMA CGM has christened the CMA CGM Osmium, a 13,000-TEU dual-fuel methanol container ship built by HD Hyundai Samho in South Korea. The carrier has assigned the vessel to the M2X service linking Asia with Mexico — a routing choice...

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed and the Red Sea under renewed attack, the container industry faces a question it has never had to answer at this scale: where does the cargo actually go? The theoretical alternatives — Cape...

When the Strait of Hormuz closed, it did not just shut down a shipping lane. It severed the most connected container port in the Middle East from the global liner network, and took every other Gulf port behind the Strait...

The simultaneous closure of the Strait of Hormuz and resumption of Houthi attacks in the Bab el-Mandeb has created an unprecedented twin chokepoint crisis, cutting off the Persian Gulf from global shipping networks. As carriers execute full regional withdrawals and...

Shippers with cargo moving to or from the Persian Gulf face urgent decisions this week. Vessels already in transit may be stranded at shelter ports for an indeterminate period. New bookings to Gulf destinations face uncertain timelines and rapidly escalating...

The US and Israeli military strikes against Iran that began on 28 February have triggered a simultaneous disruption of both the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, creating a dual chokepoint crisis without precedent in modern container shipping. For...

For the first time in container shipping's history, both of the Middle East's critical maritime chokepoints are effectively closed to commercial traffic. The Strait of Hormuz — the sole sea passage connecting the Persian Gulf to open ocean — is...