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MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co SA

  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Panama Canal boss warns MSC ports deal threatens principle of neutrality

    Operator says purchase of Hutchison assets poses risk to waterway’s compliance with US treaty with Central American nation

    The Portuguese cargo ship MSC Maxine at the Port of Balboa at the entrance to the Panama Canal
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Container shipping
    Panama port owner’s deal fuels fears of dominance by world’s top shipping group

    CK Hutchison’s $23bn sale has raised worries of MSC’s increased control of global port infrastructure

    Montage shows MSC ship in dock at Hutchison’s Felixstowe port against a data backdrop
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    News in-depthPanama
    Panama port owner charts course to placate Trump and China

    MSC and BlackRock-led consortium behind $23bn deal holds talks with Beijing regulator ahead of expected review

    Cargo vessels dock at Balboa Port
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    The Big Read
    The shipping rivals plotting divergent courses on global trade

    As Maersk’s alliance with MSC comes to an end, the companies are set to pursue strikingly different strategies

    A fisherman casts a rod as a Maersk container ship sits docked at the Port of Felixstowe in the UK
  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    China
    US companies re-examining Chinese supply chains, top shipping boss says

    Head of France’s CMA CGM cautions businesses are seeking alternative freight routes as political relations sour

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    Business InsightPeggy Hollinger
    Maritime divorce puts Maersk’s strategy to the test

    As Danish shipping company seeks to transform into a broader logistics group, it faces rising competition from MSC

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Container shipping
    Container shipping lines MSC and Maersk end alliance

    Groups to terminate partnership in 2025 as fierce rivalry over transporting goods intensifies

    Container ships operated by MSC and Maersk at Felixstowe, UK
  • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
    Mediclinic International PLC
    London-listed hospital group Mediclinic accepts £3.7bn offer

    Mediterranean Shipping Company joins with Remgro in deal to diversify into healthcare

    A container ship of the Mediterranean Shipping Company
  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Mediclinic International PLC
    Mediclinic rejects £3.4bn takeover proposal

    Private hospitals group says offer from shipping group and its biggest shareholder undervalues company

    Mediclinic’s international head office in Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
    Container shipping
    World’s biggest shipping groups suspend Russian cargo bookings

    Moves by MSC and Maersk come as sanctions hit strained supply chains

    The cargo ship Namura Queen passing through the Bosphorus in Istanbul after it had been hit by a missile
  • Monday, 20 December, 2021
    Bollore SA
    Bolloré Group in talks to sell African ports and logistics business

    Dealmaking picks up in container shipping sector as pandemic boosts profits

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    UK trade
    Leading shipping lines divert vessels away from UK’s Felixstowe port

    Maersk and MSC decide to send ships elsewhere amid concerns about slow turnround times at Britain’s largest container hub

  • Sunday, 24 October, 2021
    FT SeriesLeading in a crisis
    Leading through the pandemic: keeping a cruise company afloat

    Pierfrancesco Vago, MSC Cruise’s executive chair, explains how a focus on detail helped the company survive

    05.10.2021 Geneva, Switzerland. Pierfrancesco Vago, Executive Chairman of MSC Cruises, Global Chairman of Cruise Lines International Association.      Photos are in his main office HQ, Geneva.      Photo Darrin Vanselow © FT 2021
  • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
    Shipping
    MSC commits to net zero by 2050

    Chief Soren Toft makes pledge as family-owned business is set to become world’s biggest shipping group

    A container ship of the Mediterranean Shipping Company
  • Wednesday, 11 August, 2021
    News in-depthContainer shipping
    Ports face biggest crisis since start of container shipping

    Pandemic highlights lack of investment as high demand and infrastructure restrictions cause delays

    Tugboats guide a MSC container ship arriving at the Port of Los Angeles, California
  • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
    News in-depth
    MSC poised to overtake Maersk as biggest shipping group

    New CEO of family-run business to manage aggressive growth as pandemic lifts profits

    Soren Toft
  • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
    Shipping boss warns EU carbon plans threaten to raise industry’s emissions

    Head of MSC says the commission’s move to cut CO2 will have the opposite effect

  • Saturday, 24 April, 2021
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    Shipping looks to hydrogen as it seeks to ditch bunker fuel

    Discord within oil-reliant industry over how to power the workhorses of global trade in the net zero era

  • Sunday, 8 December, 2019
    Climate change
    Shipping group steams into list of top 10 EU polluters

    MSC joins ranking dominated by coal power in sign of uneven climate clampdown

    Container ship Gulsum, operated by Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC), sits moored beside ship-to-shore cranes at the Port of Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. The first cargo of liquefied natural gas has set sail from a $15 billion Texas export terminal, amplifying America’s growing influence on the global market for the fuel. Photographer: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 14 November, 2018
    Shipping
    Shipping groups plot a course for digital collaboration

    Move will allow access to shared information on platforms such as blockchain

    Shipping containers sit stacked on the container ship Maglebi Maersk, operated by A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, as she sits docked at the RWG container terminal in the Port of Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. In the 1970s, Rotterdam was the world's largest port and 25,000 stevedores worked there. Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg
  • Monday, 4 June, 2018
    French politics
    Macron close adviser faces preliminary probe by financial prosecutor

    Prosecutor to examine whether private sector job met with civil servant transfer rules

  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2017
    Sustainability
    North Sea cod completes long journey back to sustainability

    Blue badge from Marine Stewardship Council after stock’s near-colllapse a decade ago

    ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 25: Cod is on display to be sold at Peterhead fish market on November 25, 2015 in Peterhead, Scotland. Recent negotiations could see an increase in North Sea fishing quotas covering several key species for the Scottish fishing industry, including North Sea cod, haddock, saithe and herring. Recent scientific advice recommends an increase in quotas for North Sea cod and North Sea haddock reflecting the healthy state of many of the Scottish fishing fleets most important fish stocks. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
  • Sunday, 12 March, 2017
    Shipping
    Leasing companies strengthen Chinese influence in world shipping

    Latest sign of the industry’s rapid transformation amid tough trading conditions

    Aerial photo of the front end of a large fully loaded container ship.
  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2017
    News in-depthShipping
    Container shipping faces critical moment after years of losses

    Sector shows signs of revival after deals and new sector alliances shake up market

  • Wednesday, 3 August, 2016
    Financial job losses
    Hyundai Merchant Marine plunges on convertible bond plan
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