While spot container freight rates have stopped plunging in recent weeks, but there is little for lines to cheer about as they blank large numbers of Asia – US West Coast services ahead on Chinese New Year. Marcus Hand | Jan 13, 2023 Analyst Drewry’s World Container...

Shanghai's harbor skyline at night PUBLISHED JAN 6, 2023 3:01 PM BY THE CONVERSATION [By Tim Smyth] Cities are artificially lit to allow humans to make use of the night. This light pollution means that stars are often barely visible in urban skies. But reduced...

The dual-fuelled French-flagged CMA CGM 15,000 teu-Patagonia, docked at the port facility located east of the Panama Canal Atlantic entrance, in the Bay of Manzanillo, province of Colon. Early December 2022, the vessel transited the Panama Canal for the first time as...

The container lines failed to respond quickly enough to changes in the markets as volumes plummeted in the second half of 2022 instead falling back on their old ways says Drewry in its latest Container Forecast report. The financial and consulting firm writes that...

Will the CII succeed? Will green fuels take off? And will the IMO enact a carbon levy? This year, we may have the answers. PUBLISHED JAN 1, 2023 7:34 PM BY BRIAN GICHERU KINYUA As we begin 2023, maritime experts are looking into their crystal balls for the trends...

Houston will start an excess dwell time fee at its container terminals starting in February 2023 (Barbours Cut Container Terminal file photo) PUBLISHED DEC 30, 2022 6:29 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE Port Houston continues to report strong increases in...

More containerships are expected to head for scrap as demand falls and environmental regulations loom PUBLISHED DEC 30, 2022 3:57 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE Just weeks after admitting that the age profile of its fleet that is tilted towards older vessels is...

Leading charterers will refuse to use new regulatory contract clause The ocean shipping industry is just days away from the debut of the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII), a new regulation meant to combat global warming. Even as an initial baby step, the CII is not...

Analysts Sea-Intelligence have sounded the alarm over the low level of blank sailings scheduled by container lines for the Lunar New Year period. The Lunar New Year, which traditionally sees an extended shutdown of factory production in China, impacting container...

The yawning gap between container shipping spot rates and contract rates leaves a question on how much volume shippers will commit to contracts when they renegotiate. Container shipping spot rates have crumbled since the start of the year and in early December...

Recent trends for softer cargo volumes at the Southern California ports continued in November. Both the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, however, believe that it is a temporary slowdown partially due to market conditions and in part operational uncertainties...

Container volume at eight major Chinese ports increased 4.7% year-on-year in mid-November. Export container volume increased 5.2% while the domestic volume grew 3.2%. Among which, the port of Dalian posted an increasing rate of 20.8%. Export containers number...

The sudden fall-off in container spot rates has been well publicized, and it is likely to lead to leaner times for ocean carriers in the next few quarters. Some of the smaller start-up lines that launched during the pandemic are already finding it hard to cover the...

At the end of a four-day visit to Ukraine, Martin Griffiths, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said it was unlikely the Black Sea grain deal would be expanded in the near term to include more Ukrainian ports....

As container lines fail to support falling spot rates in the second half of 2022, next year could bring an all-out price war as contract rates follow spot rates down. Gary Howard | Dec 07, 2022 Online container logistics platform Container xChange said a drop in...

As container spot rates continue to plunge the gulf with long-term contract levels gets ever wider. Marcus Hand | Dec 09, 2022 The Asia – Europe trade continued to lead the downwards trajectory with Drewry reporting that Shanghai to Rotterdam spot rates lost another...

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Container volumes are returning to normal at South Korea's ports after the truck drivers ended their strike (file photo) PUBLISHED DEC 9, 2022 12:36 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE Activity at South Korea’s main ports returned to normal on Friday as the striking...

As container shipping spot rates drop to close to 2019 levels on some major trades it does not bode well for carriers renegotiating long-term contracts in the coming months. Marcus Hand | Dec 06, 2022 In particular spot rates the on the Asia – Europe trade have...

PUBLISHED DEC 5, 2022 6:32 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE As Russia's oil exports prepare for a hit from new EU sanctions, the petroleum is flowing freely at American loading terminals, which are busier than ever before. The U.S. exported a record 11.8 million...

PUBLISHED DEC 5, 2022 6:42 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE Already the busiest container port in the Mediterranean and Spain’s leading Mediterranean port in terms of commercial traffic, Valencia is moving forward on a project valued at more than $1.5 billion to...

The market share of carriers outside of the main alliances on the transpacific is falling back after rising in recent years, according to one analysis. Gary Howard | Nov 04, 2022 Sea-Intelligence noted in a recent analysis that non-alliance carriers accounted for...

PUBLISHED NOV 6, 2022 6:47 PM BY CHINA DIALOGUE OCEAN [By Jack Lo Lau] Almost a year ago, Sandor Mulsow told China Dialogue Ocean that the body charged with both protecting the international seabed and developing rules to govern its exploitation,...

PUBLISHED NOV 4, 2022 2:43 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE The United States concluded a multi-year investigation and prosecution of shipping companies operating in the Caribbean with the sentencing of New York-based Ionian Management for violations dating back to...

Container spot freight rates between China and Los Angeles have dropped to pre-pandemic peak season levels, but the rate of decline is seen as slowing. Marcus Hand | Oct 26, 2022 Shifl’s forwarder drive container spot freight index Shifex for forty-foot boxes from...

Phytoplankton can grow explosively over a few days or weeks. Ocean fertilization is designed to supercharge that process to capture carbon dioxide, but it can have harmful affects for other marine life. Robert Simmon and Jesse Allen/NOAA/MODIS PUBLISHED OCT 30,...

Hydrotug 1 is completing outfitting and trials before deployment in 2023 (Port of Ostend) PUBLISHED OCT 28, 2022 7:28 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE The world’s first hydrogen-powered tugboat arrived in Belgium on October 27 after completing construction in Spain....

Workers at the Port of Liverpool’s container operation have begun another two-week strike after pay discussions broke down. Gary Howard | Oct 24, 2022 Peel Ports, owner of Port of Liverpool, claimed that Unite the union had rejected an 11% pay offer, the highest...

September inbound container volumes across the top 10 US box ports dropped by their fastest level in 27 months. Gary Howard | Oct 20, 2022 According to the latest McCown report, inbound volumes dropped by 5.5% in September, a level not seen since the early stages of...

The Government of India has approved the construction of two new terminals in Deendayal Port, Kandla. One of the terminals is a multipurpose berth and the other is a container terminal. The two terminals will equip Deendayal port for handling Next...

PUBLISHED OCT 24, 2022 5:02 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE The UN Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) for the Black Sea Grain Initiative says that the vessel backlog that affected the program is back, and more challenging than ever. Though the program is operating...

Carriers continue their attempts at managing service capacity to support freight rates as volumes fall and congestion eases. Gary Howard | Oct 14, 2022 Drewry noted 64 cancelled sailings across the transpacific, transatlantic and Asia-North Europe & Med trades for...

Posted in Ports by Raghib Raza on Oct 13, 2022 at 04:57. The Port of Rotterdam and Spanish oil group Cespa have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish the first green hydrogen corridor between Southern and Northern Europe. The trade lane is expected...

The second strike at Liverpool is still running while a third strike was scheduled to start October 24 (Unite) PUBLISHED OCT 14, 2022 4:15 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE The labor disputes at two of the UK’s largest ports show no signs of progress as fears continue...

The container sector is heading for a short, sharp, hard landing as the supply chain normalises and large amounts of new tonnage hits the water, Maritime Strategies International’s (MSI) Adam Kent says in our latest podcast episode. Marcus Hand | Oct 06, 2022 From...

The higher average age of the Mediterranean feeder fleet could lead to a shortage when new environmental regulations come into force, according to Maritime Strategies International. Gary Howard | Oct 10, 2022 MSI said that newbuilding contracting by owners who operate...

Posted in Ports by Raghib Raza on Oct 10, 2022 at 05:44. The port of Long Beach joined the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES). ARCHES is a public-private partnership formed to procure newly available funding from a federal US...

Crimean Bridge across Kerch Strait suffered explosion and fire early in the morning Oct 8, two spans of motorway bridge collapsed and fell into water, railway bridge above motorway with cargo train including railway car tanks with fuel, is on fire. Details sketchy and...

The Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI) took another plunge this week, its fifth consecutive week of decline. Gary Howard | Sep 30, 2022 The SCFI recorded 1922.95 on 30 September, down from 2072.04 on 23 September and well down on its all time high of 5,051 in...

Fed supply chain pressure index headed in opposite direction of inflation Remember back in 2021 when inflation was “transitory” and surging consumer prices were blamed on the supply chain crisis? The Fed and macro investors became intensely interested in chaos at the...

As we once again make our way towards winter in the North Pacific, should we be bracing ourselves for another season of container losses or have we, as an industry, started to learn some lessons? Tom Bebbington, Maritime Innvoation | Sep 29, 2022  There are many...

For at least one month, the East Coast's busiest container port became the busiest container port in the U.S. PUBLISHED SEP 25, 2022 9:05 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE Last month, volumes at the Port of Los Angeles fell below both Port of Long Beach and the Port...

Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) has announced it is to invest up to RMB51.3bn ($7.3bn) in constructing container terminal and supporting projects at Xiaoyangshan. Katherine Si | Sep 23, 2022 The investment in the new area through its subsidiary Shanghai...

Container spot rates have fallen by 10% for the fourth week running as increasingly looks like the sector could be in for a hard landing. Marcus Hand | Sep 23, 2022 he bell weather Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) has lost another 10.4% over the last week...