For the second time in approximately a month, one of CMA CGM’s large containerships, the newly inaugurated CMA CMG Belem (13,000 TEU) has lost boxes overboard in storms off South Africa. Industry observers had noted that the large boxships would…
Heavy seas and strong winds are continuing to batter shipping along the South African coast and the massive containerships on route to sail the Cape of Good Hope due to Red Sea diversions. CMA CGM is reporting that one of…
Niger has shut off oil exports to China via its pipeline to Benin’s coast, Oil Minister Mahamane Moustapha Barke Bako said on Thursday, deepening a standoff between the West African neighbours. At the Agadem oilfield in eastern Niger, the minister…
Tangier Med has been a major success over the last 14 years going from zero to handling 8.6 million teu last year. Sitting just across the Strait of Gibraltar Tangier Med is today equivalent to being the third largest port…
The trade in sanctioned Russian oil has shifted from Greek waters to eastern Morocco in the Mediterranean, according to Bloomberg. Determined efforts by the Greek coast guard has pushed tankers transferring sanctioned Russian oil out into the Mediterranean Sea to…
In mid-May, residents in East Africa woke up to internet disruptions that persisted for nearly a week. Preliminary investigations by communications authorities found that damage to deep-sea cables near a coastal town in South Africa – which supply East Africa…