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Container rates rocket even higher — and there’s no end in sight
Another week, another record for container shipping spot rates. And alarmingly for shippers, upward rate momentum is accelerating. Different indexes come up with dif...
Inside container shipping’s COVID-era money-printing machine
It’s a seemingly basic shipping formula: Liners operate a fleet of container vessels, whether owned or chartered, with total capacity measured in twenty-foot e...
Shipping snarls may last well into 2022
The top U.S. maritime regulator said stretched global supply chains pushing ocean-freight rates to record highs may stay strained into 2022, raising concerns about w...
Teleport converts two A320s into air freighters
KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Group Bhd's cargo and logistics unit Teleport has operated its maiden freighter flight with a dedicated B737-800F aircraft, reinforcing its...
Maersk's ‘technical challenges’ with booking system not a cyber-attack
Maersk Line has confirmed that a failure of its booking systems was not due to a cyber-attack, but rather the result of a technical failure. The Danish carrier&rs...
Higher Shipping Fees Hurt Smaller Firms
Vietnamese exporters are struggling to send goods abroad despite high demand because of a nearly five-fold year-on-year surge in container shipping costs. Shipping...
South Korea opens new container shipping route to Vietnam
On May 24, Incheon Seaport Corporation announced that it has begun operating a new container route from Incheon port to ports in Thailand and Vietnam. Notably, th...
Suez Canal Authority Open to Negotiation on Ever Given
CAIRO, May 25 (Reuters) – The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said on Tuesday it was still open to negotiating with the owners of a giant container ship which block...
Yokohama crowned worlds most efficient container port
The Japanese port of Yokohama has been crowned as the world’s most efficient box facility in a new study launched by the World Bank and data firm IHS Markit. A...
A Summer Of Sold-out Ships Awaits As Sea Cargo Chaos Intensifies
Container shipping rates are heading higher again, driven to new heights by unrelenting consumer demand and company restocking from Europe to the U.S. that are exhau...
Hapag-Lloyd Places Huge Container Order to Combat Global Box Shortage
German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has placed an order for 150,000 twenty-foot equivalent containers amid the pandemic-fueled container crunch in Asia and around th...
‘Madness’ at the Port of Los Angeles as Cargo Surge Breaks March and Year-to-Date Records
The Port of Los Angeles processed 957,599 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) last month for a 113% leap compared to March 2020 when global trade slowed to a crawl a...
L.A.’s latest traffic jam: Dozens of container ships waiting to be unloaded
On a typical morning — before the pandemic — if you’d looked out across the Pacific from San Pedro, the southernmost part of Los Angeles, you might...
Shippers urged to get creative to combat space shortages
Shippers have been urged to get creative as capacity shortages and high rates in air cargo and other modes are expected to continue. In the latest Baltic Exchange ai...
Ship Owners Lock In Charter Rates at 13-Year Highs
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Containership charter rates have hit 13-year highs and shipowners are locking these in with carriers on three- an...
01 September 2024
Container Prices Double, Leasing Rates Triple in China
04 September 2024
Maersk sets new bar with shipping’s first climate target validation
06 September 2024
Port of Los Angeles Reports Another Busy Month for Cargo Volumes
09 Agustus 2024