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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: https://t.co/JD8JdoAwEd

#companynews #containermanagent #corporateannouncememt

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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 (https://t.co/ve395NNhFo)

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 (https://t.co/9Zuc39LLE6).

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Recent News Briefs:

Dongwon pledges KRW200bn for AGVs and systems at Busan New Port's automated west terminal by 2028
https://t.co/R6bHVVI9NX

HMM awards HD Hyundai US$1.44bn of contracts for eight 13,000 teu LNG dual-fuel ships
https://t.co/UKLuW2DIWa

Pennsylvania commits US$371.5m to PhilaPort plan for 122% more container capacity
https://t.co/S1Gl2ftw6n

Gemini restarts Asia–Middle East loop, swapping Jebel Ali for Khor Fakkan
https://t.co/9vs2ukqhcp

CMA Terminals closes Nador West Med stake as East terminal nears opening
https://t.co/7K164uxT16

Extortion group names 12 terminals, ten ship operators and port IT suppliers in unverified leak threat
https://t.co/qUVxExPn5S

A.P. Moller Capital to buy Portek from Mitsui in third deal since August
https://t.co/uu13pBUhib

#shipping #ports #containershipping #containerports #trade

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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.

https://t.co/1TkomACBuE

#Germany #automation #containerterminal

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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.

https://t.co/lapbogO42F

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Rosatom takes full control of Delo as DP World's FESCO venture awaits signing https://t.co/ClNIr1dTL3

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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. https://t.co/KPGRNM20t0

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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. https://t.co/pWB6NXpgm2

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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.

https://t.co/wYdGQqial5

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Ammonia brings the terminal into bunkering during cargo work https://t.co/WdxTnT7l2e

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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.

https://t.co/wdr08S8J9F

#Germany #strike #verdi

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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%.

https://t.co/4trFuW75MG

#ports #OEM #containershipping

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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.

https://t.co/6JUuF8KAY2

#containershipping

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Adani doubles Colombo West as Vizhinjam expands. It is building on both sides of India's transhipment contest.

https://t.co/Slo0RtYF8o

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HD Hyundai delivers the first ship with its lashing-free system, partially applied

HD Hyundai's 13,000 teu ship for a French carrier is the first fitted with a partial, hybrid version of its lashing-free technology, which it says lets the ship carry more than 10% more cargo weight on deck.

https://t.co/X9Ak3KB2aX

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Software before steel: YILPORT’s Gebze gain is a rehearsal for automation

YILPORT tuned its yard-dispatch software on Gebze's 31 manual cranes before the automated fleet arrives at Liscont, Leixões and Gävle. Executives at YILPORT and @KalerisOfficial explain how the figure was measured, why the vendor quotes a 10% floor, and who controls the crane once it drives itself.

A 21% jump in yard-crane moves per hour at Gebze, on the same 31 cranes, is the headline figure but the more important result is what the deployment is setting up at three European terminals.

#ports #containershipping #TOS #yilport

https://t.co/AekoBAkGyn

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CM Reader+ subscriber content:
Monthly Market Analytics Report - September 2026

In September carriers brought capacity back to the Red Sea while ordering more of it for the end of the decade. On 14 September Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd moved four more Gemini services to Suez, including their first Asia–North Europe string, in the week Houthi forces reached Perim Island on the Bab el-Mandeb. Asia–Europe rates fell as the shorter rotations released ships: Drewry’s Shanghai–Genoa dropped 21.2% in four weeks, while withdrawn capacity held Shanghai–Los Angeles 15.0% higher. WTCP Intelligence’s market-balance index fell from 66.5 to 54.3, and its price-blind network-stress index held near neutral. The orderbook reached 45% of the fleet, a ratio last seen in late 2008, after Maersk confirmed 26 LNG dual-fuel ships of 18,600 teu. Hapag-Lloyd raised its 2026 EBITDA guidance to as much as US$4.4bn on the spot rates the Suez return is eroding. The August port volumes released in September counted the typhoon season: Shanghai fell 14.7% to 4.28m teu while Xiamen grew 12.1%, and the backlog moved to Southeast Asia. Washington announced a two-month extension of its China port-fee and crane-duty truce to 10 January 2027, but without a Federal Register notice the suspension still lapses on 9 November.

https://t.co/DLuLnA31o0

Quarterly Market Analytics Report — Q3 2026

Q3 2026 separated the two chokepoints in carriers' pricing: the Red Sea came back service by service while Hormuz stayed shut. Freight composites ended the quarter flat as Asia–Europe and transpacific rates moved US$4,003 apart, carriers raised guidance on Cape distances and kept ordering, and port growth moved from the Chinese origin gateways to the relay hubs.

https://t.co/TRhH7pcqoY

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Some articles of last week:

CMA CGM says FedEx deal nearly triples CEVA's North American contract logistics footprint as forwarding and automotive weigh on its margin
https://t.co/Os6Hh3KFF6

Port of London passes Felixstowe on container units a year before London Gateway's fifth berth opens
https://t.co/16TuS9empL

Berlin let Cosco onto Hamburg's quay at 24.99%. It is moving to stop an 80% hold on the rail behind it.
https://t.co/vLtjY1pNtL

DP World signs for its first Nigerian port in the district where Dangote plans its own deep seaport
https://t.co/ChCGzRyDQ7

Hybrids make up 247 of 260 straddle carriers ordered since January 2025, with conversion to battery-electric left for later
https://t.co/6Pr4OPyKhl

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Friday's newsletter:

https://t.co/Xja5udSkIa

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Recent News Briefs:

Suez now carries four times the container capacity counted at the Bab el-Mandeb
https://t.co/NreJuDEwN2

Israel stops reviewing ZIM's special-share application as Hapag-Lloyd lifts its 2026 guidance
https://t.co/9kNzLETSRN

CMA CGM's answer to Samsung's US$186m claim challenges the FMC's power to award reparations
https://t.co/FLJWqIs5EV

Hapag-Lloyd stops taking new bookings to Manila, Batangas and Subic Bay until the end of the year
https://t.co/2BkOc9xtwx

Maersk will operate its Asia–East Coast South America service alone after its shared loop with CMA CGM ends
https://t.co/7vPPCqlefq