American Shipper Magazine / Transport Ocean

ECO ships worth it?

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:45:20 GMT

Ocean carriers are reaping big savings through slow steaming and using larger vessels, but a Germanischer Lloyd official said significant additional benefits can be realized through adopting improved technology.

It’s not just about the canal

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:34:08 GMT

Bracing for the cascade

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:48:09 GMT

Even bigger fuel challenges ahead

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:44:10 GMT

Even with slow steaming and economies of scale of bigger containerships, fuel is still a significant cost for carriers, amounting to about 60-70 percent of a voyage across the Pacific, recently noted Brian Conrad, Transpacific Stabilization Agreement executive director.
Bunker fuels jumped from $450 per ton in September 2010 to $745 per ton in early 2012, and contributed to the poor financial results of carriers, Conrad said during a panel discussion at the TPM 2013 conference in Long Beach, Calif.
He predicted fuel prices will remain volatile, probably in the $600-to-$700 a ton range for the foreseeable future.

The other way around

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:02:18 GMT

From slow steaming to speed optimization

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:00:20 GMT

German powerhouse?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:58:33 GMT

Index-linked contracts catching on?

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:26:04 GMT

Two-way street?

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:58:12 GMT

Carriers want a single transpacific discussion agreement. The major container shipping companies in the transpacific want to create a single organization in which they can discuss both U.S. exports and imports, rather than having separate discussion agreements for the trade in each direction.

What’s on TOTE’s horizon?

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:50:50 GMT

Niche of niches

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:14:28 GMT

Langh develops specialized container for the steel industry. The success of containerization and intermodalism is based on the fact that there are millions of identical shipping containers which can be easily shared by shippers and carriers anywhere and hold a wide variety of cargo.

A question of values

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:46:07 GMT

One hundred and fifty million dollars buys a liner carrier a fairly large container ship these days. But it also apparently buys a nice chunk of one of the world’s largest lines itself.

Charting a unique course

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:43:58 GMT

The big squeeze

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:16:26 GMT

Why would anyone invest?

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:14:14 GMT

New Year’s party? Hardly.

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:10:31 GMT

It’s time to plan for a New Year’s Eve party if you’re a shipper. Not in the mood for celebrating? Why’s that?

A demanding problem

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:24:25 GMT

Have you been served?

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:02:29 GMT

Contentious contract negotiations this summer between union longshoremen on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts and their employers have taught shippers an abject lesson: shipping goods internationally is not the same as buying a product at a store.

Embracing the forward curve

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:13 GMT

A century worth of change

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Exactly 100 years ago, the celebrated American painter George Bellows produced one of his most iconic works, Men of the Docks.