News / 2M restores transpacific capacity and pleads for return of empty containers

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21/09/2020

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 ...

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George Kochanowski
September 22, 2020 at 3:31 pm
Using 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.

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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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