South korea Trade Photo 118889644 © FootageLab Dreamstime.com

The Korean government has again intervened in the container shipping market amid rising concern that smaller shippers (SMEs) will be starved of slots during the peak season.

Every Korean liner operator is to mobilise all available vessels for nine transpacific and four South-east Asian extra loaders this month.

And, expecting tight shipping capacity to persist into the fourth quarter, HMM and SM Line, Korea’s only ocean-going carriers, will deploy at least six ad hoc transpacific sailings every month from October.

Meanwhile, the Ministry ...

Please Register

To continue reading, please login or register for full access to our free content
Loadstar subscriber
New Loadstar subscriber REGISTER

Comment on this article


You must be logged in to post a comment.