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The fire-stricken 7,510 teu Yantian Express is expected to reach its port of refuge at Freeport in the Bahamas next week, but shippers with salvageable cargo on board should brace themselves for substantial costs and significant delays in obtaining their containers.

Moreover, shippers that did not ...

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  • Frederik deCockBuning

    January 29, 2019 at 4:45 pm

    Poor show , the carrier was very light-hearted when reporting this casualty.
    maybe the carrier was also light-hearted acting in this salvage . Suggest cargo
    owners to investigate if GA could have been avoided.