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French ocean carrier CMA CGM received this week the container vessel CMA CGM SEINE from CSSC Hudong Zhonghua. The LNG-powered 23,872 teu ship and her three sisters are an improved variant of the nine LNG-powered vessels that CMA CGM received from CSSC Group in 2020 and 2021. The vessel type is referred to as the The post CSSC delivers the CMA CGM SEINE – the first of four improved ‘Jaques Saadé’ Megamaxes first appeared on Global Maritime Hub.

Alphaliner’s annual count of the top-10 carriers’ reefer capacities shows that the ‘reefer ranking’ generally follows the overall size of the respective liner operators’ fleets. The only exception is ZimShipping, which is the world’s 10th largest carrier, but still occupies the 8th spot for reefers, ahead of HMM__official and Yang Ming. As the world’s largest The post European carriers maintain lead in reefer cargo market first appeared on Global Maritime Hub.

Last week, we analyzed the global Top 30 container ports’ latest annual performance, which was positive for all but two of them in our rankings. The port of Tanger Med is among those that stand out in terms of annual progress, having again enjoyed a stellar year. The Moroccan port logged a 19% year-on-year increase The post Tanger Med more than triples its throughput in a decade first appeared on Global Maritime Hub.

The non-operating owner (NOO) fleet of small to medium-sized cellular container vessels of 700 to 9,000 teu, the most traded in the charter market, lost a staggering 2.3 M teu of capacity in the last fifty-six months. The plunge started in August 2020, when shipping lines, particularly MSCCargo and cmacgm started raiding the second-hand container The post The NOO fleet shrank by 2.3 M teu in last five years first appeared on Global Maritime Hub.

The Greek vessel operator, which currently ranks 21st in Alphaliner’s TOP 30 NOO Ranking, is to add 10 Container Ships, presently on order, to its active fleet of 23 units.  However, while its currently operated vessels have an average capacity of ~4000 TEU, the larger size of the ships on order (over 8700 TEU on The post Capital Executive Ship Management to double its fleet and become a Top 20 Non-Operating Owner (NOO) of Container Ships? first appeared on Global Maritime Hub.