And so they’re going on the water to an improved container liner system that’s been developed over the last few years.

Just last week a big Japanese container liner gave notice of its intention to slow down,' he added.

Some 400 container liners serve Hong Kong weekly, connecting to over 500 destinations around the world.

The shipping market is divided into two main categories: scheduled ("container liner") and non-scheduled ("tramp") services.

"The Commission confirms unannounced inspections in the container liner shipping sector" on Tuesday, it said in a statement.

In 1966, a container liner service from the USA to the Dutch city of Rotterdam commenced.

Packaging bags (thermo bags, pallet covers, container liners)

It was subsequently transformed into a container liner company in 1976 and was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in May 1996.

The preliminary investigation covers the period from around 2008, according to the Danish company A.P. Moller-Maersk, which owns the world’s largest container liner.

PONL is mainly a container liner shipping company. It is also involved in container terminal services, logistics and air transport.

ISS Bahrain provides port agency, vessel husbandry, container liner, freight-forwarding, marine survey, and project support services in the Kingdom.

Besides Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Zeeland, the ports of Moerdijk and Vlaardingen also support container liner shipping.

A pre-sterilized, disposable needle and other disposable-type equipment such as syringes, gloves, tubing, mattress covers, masks and waste container liners - is used only once and then discarded.

Five Star Shipping & Agency Company Pty Ltd is the sole agent of COSCO container liner services in Australia.

Data is given for the three main container liner routes: U.S.-Asia, U.S.-Europe, and Europe-Asia.

In 1987 a strategic decision to start actively seeking outside shipping agency principals to complement the in-house core business activity of container liner shipping - Ben Line Agencies was established.

European Commission inspectors on Tuesday raided the premises of container liner shipping firms in several EU states, including Denmark and Germany, as part of a probe into a possible cartel.

Chris Bourne, Managing Director, Mitsui OSK Lines (Europe) Ltd, one of the leading deep-sea container liners operating from Southampton, said: These new details are very good news.

Incorporated in the Marshall Islands, Global Ship Lease commenced operations in December 2007 with a business of owning and chartering out containerships under long-term, fixed rate charters to world-class container liner companies.

The port is served by various container liner services, namely, APL, K Line, Maersk Line, MOL, NYK, PIL and several regional container lines.

The TAA also contained provisions governing other aspects of container liner transport, in particular the chartering of 'slots‘ or space, equipment exchange, the fixing of rates for cargo-handling activities in port and the joint management of maritime transport capacity.

Currently, COSCO operates three fixed container liner services into Australia and New Zealand, namely Sino/Australia service, North Asia/Australia service and North Asia/New Zealand Service.

ICS is unique in that unlike other international shipping trade associations it represents the global interests of all the different trades in the industry: bulk carrier operators, tanker operators, passenger ship operators and container liner trades, including shipowners and third party ship managers.

This House sets great store by the fact that the Commission spells it out that other forms of cooperation, including the consortia block exemption, would continue to apply to this container liner shipping sector, because important operational agreements can be made in this respect, for example in terms of capacity.

W.W. Lee, chief executive for container liner business at South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping, blamed the falling rates on ”panic” and said the ”damage is serious,” with the result that ”if current rates are extended out over 12 months, it is likely that the trade will encounter significant financial challenges.”