#Freight Forwarding
SM Line Containership Could Be Docked at Canadian Cruise Terminal For ‘Weeks’ After Breakdown
A South Korean containership could be docked at the cruise terminal in Victoria, British Columbia for “several weeks” after breaking down off the west co...
British Freight Lobby Calls for Investigation Into Container Shipping ‘Profiteering’
The British International Freight Association is calling on the U.K. government to investigate the state of competition within the global container-shipping market,...
Post-Panamax container ship maimed by fuel in North Pacific, 11-day saga
Container ship SM BUSAN arrived at Victoria Anchorage, B.C., Canada, on tow of two Seaspan tugs and offshore tug MAERSK LAUNCHER (IMO 9425746), at around 0300 UTC Ja...
China Floats First 24,000 TEU Boxship Built for Evergreen
China’s Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding, a division of CSSC, floated Evergreen Line’s newest containership which is being called the world’s largest c...
Evergreen Hands Out Huge Bonuses for Record-Setting Year
Evergreen Marine Corp (EMC), the Taiwanese ocean carrier, is reportedly handing out generous annual bonuses after a great year for the company’s finances. Some...
Euroseas Announces New Containership Charters at More Than Twice the Rate of Existing Contracts
Greek containership operator Euroseas has announced its latest head-turning charters for two of its ships at “more than twice” the rate their existing co...
How ocean carriers dove deeper into logistics, air cargo in 2021
For big ocean freight lines, 2021 was marked not only by record profits stemming from COVID-related constraints on shipping patterns and capacity but by significant...
Expect more shipping chaos as Omicron forces transport workers to quit
From seafarers refusing to get back on ships to truck drivers whose concern over Covid-related border closures trumps the lure of higher pay, the transport industry...
Shippers Plan New Strategies, Stopgap Measures to Ease Freight Pain
Businesses rattled by high logistics costs and freight bottlenecks are extending the workarounds they adopted during the pandemic and taking on new strategies to eas...
Cargo salvage booms as abandoned goods litter supply chain
Global supply chain problems have thrown up everything from abandoned containers full of rotten red cabbages to beer kegs and dog blankets. The stranded, u...
The Loadstar: A Year of Covid Variants and Milking the Freight Rate Cash Cow
Starting the year in lockdown and ending the year in lockdown, it all seems like a scene from the Bill Murray classic film Groundhog Day, but in between we did...
The Unique Way Cargo Ships May Soon Cross The Ocean
It may — at first glance, anyway — seem far-fetched, but a French shipping company, a multinational aerospace corporation, and a French technology compan...
San Pedro Ports Delay Container Dwell Fee For Seventh Week
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are once again postponing the implementation of the new “container dwell fees,” marking a seventh week in a row....
Ningbo shippers divert as exports are hit by Covid-restricted trucking
Forwarders are shifting volumes to congested-Shanghai to avoid landside delays, despite carrier schedules so far unaffected by the newest Covid-disruption at Ningbo....
Boxship newbuilds will just join port queues unless landside bottlenecks fixed
Summarising the last year in container shipping Xeneta chief analyst Sand highlighted that if volume growth in 2021 over pre-pandemic 2019 was compared against fleet...
03 November 2024
‘It’s all happening again.’ The supply chain is under strain
08 November 2024
Global Freight Rises But Shows Signs of Weakness in U.S.
23 Oktober 2024
Arctic Shipping Route to See First-Ever Panamax Containership
18 Oktober 2024