Six months after the merger process started, UASC was integrated with German carrier Hapag-Lloyd.
United Arab Shipping (UASC)
United Arab Shipping (UASC)
Prior to merging with Hapag-Lloyd in 2016, UASC, or United Arab Shipping Company, was the world’s 18th-largest container shipping company, with 53 vessels with a combined capacity of approximately 400,000 TEUs. Founded in 1976, the Dubai-based ocean carrier served Asia from Singapore, Northern Europe from Hamburg, the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent from Dubai, the Mediterranean and North Africa from Istanbul, and the Americas from Cranford, New Jersey, USA.
UASC, previously the largest shipping company in the Middle East, was established jointly by the six Gulf Arab states Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and U.A.E.
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14 Nov 2017
UASC is making its presence felt as the carrier is merged into Hapag-Lloyd operations.
14 Sep 2017
US maritime regulators on Thursday voted to allow ocean carrier members of THE Alliance to form an emergency fund.
29 Aug 2017
Transport volume grew by 14 percent to 4.22 million TEU.
05 Jul 2017
The notes will be listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
28 Jun 2017
Hapag-Lloyd has been taken off Standard & Poor’s CreditWatch.
30 May 2017
The shareholders also approved the expansion of the company’s supervisory board.
24 May 2017
“This is an important strategic milestone and a big step forward for Hapag-Lloyd.”
17 Mar 2017
The two carriers had planned to close on the transaction by March 31.
21 Dec 2016
Hapag-Lloyd says it is confident of closing on the merger with United Arab Shipping Company very soon following reports the deal faces delay over financing issues.
23 Nov 2016
Merger will create the world's fifth-largest container line.
22 Nov 2016
The merger would create the fifth-largest container line.
14 Nov 2016
Hapag-Lloyd posted a higher net profit in the third quarter, but the German container line’s operating result dipped.
08 Nov 2016
THE Alliance on Tuesday announced details of its network of routes and port calls.
01 Nov 2016
Hapag-Lloyd has filed concessions to European Union competition regulators to secure approval for a planned merger with the United Arab Shipping Company.
26 Aug 2016
Hapag-Lloyd shareholders Friday paved the way to a merger with United Arab Shipping Company and creation of the world’s fifth-largest container shipping line.
24 Aug 2016
Hapag-Lloyd revealed that the United Arab Shipping Company booked a loss in 2015 and is still losing money ahead of a shareholders’ meeting to clear the way for a merger.
18 Jul 2016
Hapag-Lloyd and United Arab Shipping Company Monday signed a merger agreement.
07 Jul 2016
“The commitments aim to increase price transparency for customers and to reduce the likelihood of coordinating prices,” the European Commission said.
29 Jun 2016
United Arab Shipping Company’s shareholders voted for a merger with German carrier Hapag-Lloyd.
28 Jun 2016
Hapag-Lloyd Tuesday said it had reached an agreement on the terms and conditions of a merger with United Arab Shipping Co.
08 Jun 2016
Shippers have been told by another carrier of the steep cost of non-compliance with the new container weighing regulations.
07 Jun 2016
United Arab Shipping Company is the latest container line to choose Inttra to help comply with a new international container weighing regulation.
02 Jun 2016
The shareholders of United Arab Shipping Co. signaled support for a proposed merger with Hapag-Lloyd.
25 May 2016
Hapag-Lloyd has postponed its annual shareholders’ meeting scheduled for June 1.
19 May 2016
United Arab Shipping Company shareholders are to vote early next month on a cooperation deal with Hapag-Lloyd.
12 May 2016
Five non-vessel-operating common carriers and forwarders have paid the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission to settle allegations they misrepresented cargo to carriers.
27 Apr 2016
Standard & Poor’s has placed Hapag-Lloyd on negative credit watch.
21 Apr 2016
Hapag-Lloyd and United Arab Shipping Company are in merger talks, in a surprise move that will accelerate consolidation in the troubled container shipping industry.
11 Apr 2016
Rapidly expanding United Arab Shipping Company announced that it is beefing up its East Coast South America operations with a new joint venture agency in Uruguay as part of a broader strategic push in the region, fueled by expected growth in refrigerated shipments.
29 Mar 2016
United Arab Shipping Co. has appointed TRAC Intermodal as the carrier’s sole chassis provider in the United States. Stuart Sandlin, president of UASC North America, said using a single chassis provider will benefit customers and make UASC more competitive in quoting carrier haulage rates under which the ship line arranges inland transportation.
02 Mar 2016
United Arab Shipping Co. this week issued two trade notices enhancing its coverage on trades to and from India.
16 Feb 2016
CMA CGM and Cosco are leading efforts to create a new vessel-sharing alliance that could include Evergreen Line and OOCL and would shake up three of the four major east-west carrier groupings, the Alphaliner newsletter reported.
16 Feb 2016
Fifteen leading ocean container carriers, including Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM, have offered to change their practices for setting freight rates to settle an antitrust probe, the European Commission said Tuesday
17 Dec 2015
United Arab Shipping Company has loaded what it describes as a world record 18,601 TEU on one of its brand new fuel efficient mega-ships that is now heading for Felixstowe.
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