Container Management

With Tideworks sold, both leading independent TOS vendors belong to private equity Cargotec sold Navis in 2021 and Carrix sold Tideworks in October. Both vendors, the largest independents by their own install-base figures, now belong to software investors whose first moves have been bolt-on acquisitions and sales hires. The largest terminal operators are answering by owning part of the software stack themselves. Two ICTSI terminals changed systems this autumn, one on a scheduled 16-hour stop, the other with a 26% fall in weekly throughput reported 11 days after cutover. container-mag.com/article/wi… #TOS #terminaloperatingsystem #maritime #technology

Nearly four in five yard cranes ordered since 2025 with a stated drive are fully electric A CM count of 413 yard cranes ordered from five makers finds @Konecranes with more than half of them and its orders almost entirely battery-electric in 2026. #Chinese builders booked more units in 2026, most of them without a drive description. container-mag.com/article/ne… #containershipping #containerports #electrification

The 100% duty on Chinese cranes now moves with the US-China truce, two months at a time USTR proposes to suspend the Section 301 maritime action, including the 100% duty on Chinese ship-to-shore cranes and chassis, from 10 November 2026 to 9 January 2027, the same two months Treasury added to the Busan truce in September. The 25% four-year-review duty stays in force, the April 2027 grandfather entry date does not move, and Port Houston, which took eight Chinese cranes inside that grandfather window, is choosing a supplier for ten more under a clock that resets every 60 days. container-mag.com/article/th… #USChina #trade #STScranes #maritime

News Briefs from the last few days: APM Terminals says it stays central to Salalah after Oman ends the concession in 2028 An APM Terminals spokesperson confirmed to CM that the operator "remains a central party" to the future concession structure at Salalah, with "the final agreement under conclusion", after Oman told Salalah Port Services its concession ends on 1 November 2028 and a new operator will be named. container-mag.com/article/ap… SCA says Maersk's COO anticipates all services back through Suez by March 2027 The Suez Canal Authority says Rabab Boulos anticipates the whole Maersk network back in the canal by March 2027, and its count shows Maersk's transits nearly doubling year on year. Hapag-Lloyd told the authority it is monitoring Red Sea safety indicators. container-mag.com/article/sc… APM Terminals and Hateco to study rail freight terminals for northern Vietnam, starting in Hai Phong Hateco and APM Terminals have signed a memorandum of understanding to study a rail container terminal in Hai Phong and three further rail freight sites in northern Vietnam, at a preliminary US$3.5bn, on a railway the National Assembly re-planned and repriced in August. container-mag.com/article/ap…

News Briefs from the last few days: Dongwon pledges KRW200bn for AGVs and systems at Busan New Port's automated west terminal by 2028 container-mag.com/article/do… APM Terminals and Hateco to study rail freight terminals for northern Vietnam, starting in Hai Phong container-mag.com/article/ap… SCA says Maersk's COO anticipates all services back through Suez by March 2027 container-mag.com/article/sc… APM Terminals says it stays central to Salalah after Oman ends the concession in 2028 container-mag.com/article/ap…

Port Said calls double as Gemini reworks seven Asia–Europe services container-mag.com/article/po…

Container Management (CM), covering the container supply chain since 1984 - from trade, shipping, ports and terminals to equipment, technology and operations - has appointed Rachael White as Editor-in-Chief, effective 15 October 2026. White has worked in global container logistics for nearly 40 years. Her career in fact began at Container Management after graduating from Cambridge University in 1987. As Editor-in-Chief, White sets editorial direction across the print magazine, published 11 times a year, the weekly newsletter and CM's online analysis, and owns the analytical standard every piece has to meet. Kate Wilson continues as CM's Managing Editor. The appointment comes as CM completes its shift from trade magazine to intelligence platform. CM's editorial output and WTCP Intelligence now draw on the same base: a structured archive of CM content going back more than two decades and the WTCP Intelligence operational dataset, sourced directly from the industry and updated daily. The result is analysis of what the numbers mean for readers' decisions rather than a record of what was announced. "I spent years listening to industry executives explain the depth, weight and detail of what they needed to know, and much of it never made it into print anywhere," White said. "CM is where it does. Fewer pages that summarise press releases, more that tell a technically literate executive what a change in volumes, equipment or regulation means for next year's decisions“, White said. Read the full release here: container-mag.com/article/co… #companynews #containermanagent #corporateannouncememt

Cause and effect … Listed by Brussels or priced by London, a UK first call would lose its ETS saving: The European Commission has proposed listing non-EU ports within 150 nautical miles of the EU on their infrastructure alone, a test Felixstowe, London Gateway and Southampton would meet. Ports in countries that apply equivalent carbon pricing would be exempt, and the UK plans to price international voyages from 2028 (container-mag.com/article/li…) Port Said calls double as Gemini reworks seven Asia–Europe services: Gemini's Asia–Europe rotations from mid-November double Port Said's weekly calls to six and add an Asia loop serving only Algeciras and Tanger Med in Europe. Unlisted Salalah and Jeddah calls also shorten the legs the EU ETS prices on two services (container-mag.com/article/po…).

Recent News Briefs: Dongwon pledges KRW200bn for AGVs and systems at Busan New Port's automated west terminal by 2028 container-mag.com/article/do… HMM awards HD Hyundai US$1.44bn of contracts for eight 13,000 teu LNG dual-fuel ships container-mag.com/article/hm… Pennsylvania commits US$371.5m to PhilaPort plan for 122% more container capacity container-mag.com/article/pe… Gemini restarts Asia–Middle East loop, swapping Jebel Ali for Khor Fakkan container-mag.com/article/ge… CMA Terminals closes Nador West Med stake as East terminal nears opening container-mag.com/article/cm… Extortion group names 12 terminals, ten ship operators and port IT suppliers in unverified leak threat container-mag.com/article/ex… A.P. Moller Capital to buy Portek from Mitsui in third deal since August container-mag.com/article/a-… #shipping #ports #containershipping #containerports #trade

Eurogate will test full automation in a Wilhelmshaven mini-terminal before deciding how to automate its German terminals @EUROGATE_Group is building a separate mini-terminal at Wilhelmshaven to test full automation on its own software, with equipment bought from several makers. Its results are to be the basis for automation decisions at all of Eurogate's German terminals. container-mag.com/article/eu… #Germany #automation #containerterminal

Malaysia bars ULCVs from a new protected zone on the South China Sea approach to the Singapore Strait Every ULCV is now barred from a Malaysian protected zone that begins about 15 nautical miles northeast of Horsburgh. A separate EEZ-wide bunkering ban, in force since June, stops at Malaysia's port limits. container-mag.com/article/ma…

Rosatom takes full control of Delo as DP World's FESCO venture awaits signing container-mag.com/article/ro…

DP World's New Mooring concession sets a 1.23m teu volume floor that drops to 1m teu when a rival terminal opens, and Bangladesh is already building one. container-mag.com/article/dp…

Hutchison and TiL have resumed talks on Rotterdam's Omega terminal. They are also on opposite sides of the sale of the terminals it would be built on. container-mag.com/article/hu…

MSC says Hapag-Lloyd will leave Ipanema in April 2027, leaving its Asia service to South America's east coast on a loop matching Maersk's and one run with ZIM @MSCCargo told customers on 8 October 2026 that Hapag-Lloyd will leave the Ipanema loop from April 2027. @HapagLloydAG's Asia service to South America's east coast would then run on ASE, which calls the same five ports as Maersk's ASAS, and AS3, run with ZIM. Israel's Government Companies Authority stopped handling the application for Hapag-Lloyd's takeover of ZIM on 29 September 2026. container-mag.com/article/ms…

Ammonia brings the terminal into bunkering during cargo work container-mag.com/article/am…

German dockers accept the September offer after a strike ballot that needed 75% of members called to vote Ver.di's bargaining commission accepted the ZDS 12-month package on 6 October, three weeks after 64.7% of surveyed members rejected the same terms; indefinite strikes needed 75% of members called to vote. The 3.4% wage element alone is worth about €7.4m a half-year on HHLA's Container segment personnel line, against segment EBIT of €17.2m. container-mag.com/article/ge… #Germany #strike #verdi

Konecranes sets Port Solutions a market-share target and leaves its margin floor at 9% Port Solutions earned 10.4% in the first half of 2026 against an unchanged 9% floor, with a 7% growth target, EUR 1.83bn of orders on the books and first-half sales down 13.3%. container-mag.com/article/ko… #ports #OEM #containershipping

A customs manifest can now keep a container off the ship at Malaysian ports, Hapag-Lloyd has told shippers. Its 48-hour cut-off before arrival is the carrier's own; the statute says 24 hours before departure @HapagLloydAG has told customers that Malaysian port operators can refuse to load a container without a complete K5 or K6 customs manifest, with shipping instructions due at least 48 hours before vessel ETA. The filing deadline in the Customs Act is 24 hours before departure and has stood since 2020; Customs has posted no notice on its announcements pages, and five other major carriers' Malaysia pages say nothing. Hapag-Lloyd's 48-hour cut-off is one of three carrier no-load deadlines announced or in force since 30 September, alongside Maersk's for Australia, New Zealand and the EU. container-mag.com/article/a-… #containershipping

Adani doubles Colombo West as Vizhinjam expands. It is building on both sides of India's transhipment contest. container-mag.com/article/ad…