Shipping container suppliers abandon $987 mln deal after U.S. probeThe U.S. Justice Department said the deal would have combined two of the world's four suppliers of refrigerated shipping containers and fur...
Shipping company Maersk sees record profit as demand surgesIn the last three months, revenue soared to $18.5 billion from $11.3 billion in the same period the previous year. Profits in the fourth qu...
Maersk lifts profits on global supply chain crunchMaersk said that its bottom-line net profit amounted to $5.438 billion in the period from July to September, compared with $947 million a y...
Reality check awaits John Kerry and his bid to cut ships’ CO2Shipping’s current 2050 target is only a 50% reduction in annual greenhouse gas emissions versus 2008, whereas limiting global warming to 1...
Container shipping is booming again. That probably won’t lastStandardized containers transformed global trade by making it possible to get stuff on and off of ships much, much more cheaply and quickly...
White House bid to control CDC messageThe two appointees assigned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Atlanta headquarters in June have no public health backgrou...
Denmark seeks to transform ties with India with investments in niche sectorsDenmark has been an important development partner, contributing to India’s ‘White Revolution’ and growth of wind energy.
40 Tata firms to seek nod for enlisting specialist directorsIndependent directors who have completed two terms are expected to make way for new faces after having served on the board of Tata Group co...
Shipping, container firms show first signs of recovery in exportsThe exports data reported by government are in dollar terms and are catching up, after contracting for all but one month since December 201...
- Container lines like Maersk steam slower to restore profit
Container ships can't go any slower. Shipping lines are running out of options to stop losses as sailing speeds reach their lower limit.
- SCI plans to buy stake in shipyard, diversify biz
The Shipping Corporation of India, the nation’s largest sea carrier, plans to purchase a stake in a shipyard to diversify its business afte...
- GPPL to raise Rs 500 crore from the IPO
Integrated port developer and operator, Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd said it will raise close to Rs 500 crore from its public issue, which open...
- How HR managers are learnng from movies
HR managers are clued in to movies like 3 Idiots, King Arthur and Chak De for the lessons they impart.
Companies using film model to talk about HR issuesHR managers clued in to movies like 3 Idiots for lessons they impart.
- Piracy pushes ship owners to opt for Cape of Good Hope
Rising piracy in the Gulf of Aden has prompted some shipowners to change their routes to round the Cape of Good Hope instead, a detour cons...
- TUI denies merger talks with Neptune
European travel company TUI has denied a report that it is in merger talks with Neptune Orient Lines, operator of Southeast Asia’s largest ...
- Maersk appoints Carlsberg's Nils Andersen as new chief
AP Moeller-Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, replaced its chief executive officer with Carlsberg’s Nils Smedegaard Andersen aft...