Making a very large container ship is not the hard part, as the rapid increase in the number of New Panamax and larger container ships, like the ~24,000 TEU Evergreen A-class demonstrate.

This giant vessel can carry up to 18,230 TEU's, a record it held for just a year when it was surpassed by the CSCL Globe of China Shipping Container Lines in 2014, which had a 19,100 TEU capacity.

Shipping lanes are critical for commerce. Look at what happened last year when the Suez Canal was blocked by a single (though massive) container ship for six days. The estimated cost of lost ...

CAIRO (Reuters) -Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday that it targeted a Liberia-flagged container vessel in the Gulf of Aden, claiming its first attack on shipping lanes since ...

Ships of this size accounted for over a quarter of all container ship traffic through the Panama Canal since the start of 2025. When compared to last year, 30 percent more Neo sub-Panamax vessels ...

The Rise of Mega Container Ships Changing Ports. T he numbers are staggering. As of 12 July, Chinese and South Korean shipyards have delivered 21 ships of 12,500-20,000 twenty-foot equivalent ...

When you think of a container ship, ... Back in 2008, shipping giant Maersk's "B" ships were documented cruising at 29.2 knots by the Clarkson Ship Register as reported by FreightWaves.com.

Freight sector analysts fear container shipping chaos. ... “If you’re watching the shipping lanes, you know we’re already in something. We’re in the early stage of a tariff-driven recession ... -19 ...

The U.S. says anti-ship missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels have flown toward a U.S.-owned cargo ship and a U.S warship in the Red Sea despite airstrikes against the group.

Works are currently under way to expand the southern, single-lane section of the canal, after a giant container ship ran aground there in 2021, blocking traffic through the waterway for six days.

Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT), ICTSI’s operations at the Port of Melbourne in Australia, recently completed Phase 3A of its expansion project.. VICT can now accommodate neo ...

Danish shipping company Maersk on Friday denied a claim by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement that the militia carried out a drone strike on a Maersk vessel sailing towards Israel.