Red Sea crisis forces Maersk to increase capacity over strategy limit
Maersk Line appears to have temporarily abandoned its strategy of maintaining capacity at no more ...
The 2M is the latest container shipping alliance to return more capacity to the transpacific trades.
2M partners Maersk and MSC said today they “continued to see strong demand and volumes with imports into the US”.
Maersk told customers today the TP8/Orient and TP11/Elephant services, which had been “structurally blanked in the second quarter”, had been reinstated and that the number of blanked sailings during China’s Golden Week holiday would be lower than normal this year.
However, it warned shippers there was still ...
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George Kochanowski
September 22, 2020 at 3:31 pmUsing Staxxon’s Folding containers would be a great help as one could ship more empties in the same number of slots on a ship while using less chassis to get the empties to the terminal.
Recall that as few as 2 or as many as 5 empties get bundled to travel as one standard ISO container.
Staxxon announces the completion of engineering of its 40ft High Cube design. A design based on its CSC compliant 20ft design.
Staxxon is currently working with end users and carriers, both large and small, to begin sea trials of its transformational technology.
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