Tag: MSC

• Saturday, October 14th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Chilean fruit exporters sue major shipping line

  

  Chilean fruit exporters have filed a lawsuit for a “systematic succession of abuses” before the Court of Defense of Free Competition (TDLC) against the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), it was reported in Santiago.

• Monday, July 3rd 2023 - 08:12 UTC

  MSC and Maersk alliance to end 2025; MSC investing in new vessels, Maersk in logistics

  

  Mediterranean Shipping Company and AP Møller-Maersk that since 2015 set aside their rivalry and shrugged off opposition from regulators to form a capacity-sharing alliance have now agreed to part, with different focus in the future of the industry.

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 06:37 UTC

  MSC shopping for up to 24 dual-fuelled 8,000 TEU ships

  

  World’s largest container line, Mediterranean Shipping C, MSC, is shopping again in Asia for more new builds. Maersk Broker is reporting MSC has approached top yards in China and South Korea for a new series of dual-fuelled 8,000 TEU ships, with MSC tipped to be enquiring for both LNG and methanol dual-fuel vessels.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Maersk and MSC accused in Brazil of abusing their dominating position in the container business

  

  The Brazilian Association of Port Terminals (ABTP) – a group representing 73 port companies across 235 terminals in Brazil – filed a legal request at Brazil’s Administrative Economic Defense Council (CADE) to investigate Maersk and MSC’s impact on the port market. ABTP accuses the two companies of abusing their domination in the maritime transport of containers business to favor their own terminals, raising costs and reducing options for the flow of cargo in Brazil.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  UK parliamentary committee urges MSC to review sustainable fishing standards

  

  A UK parliamentary committee has called on the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to address concerns about the organization's standard for sustainable fishing in the world's oceans. The House of Commons' Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) issued recommendations following its Sustainable Seas inquiry, whose findings were published last November.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  MSC Cruises celebrates the float out of “Grandiosa”; she will be delivered next October

  

  MSC Cruises has celebrated the float out of MSC Grandiosa at the shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France where the ship is being built. She has now been moved to a wet dock, where work on the ship will continue until her delivery in October 2019.