Sea freight surcharge review
As the container shipping lines make their first attempt of 2024 at raising freight rates from Asia, with huge GRIs announced for mid-December and January, we review the ‘temporary’ surcharges…
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Boost for Hong Kong air freight
The pre-Christmas spike in eCommerce volumes out of China means that demand for air cargo space has been driving rates up from Hong Kong over the past two months, with…
Emissions Trading Scheme surcharge
The EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) was established in 2005 to tackle greenhouse gas emissions within the European Union and extends to container shipping from the 1st January 2024,…
Asia to US East/West Coast rate disparity falls
Historically East Coast sea freight rates from Asia have always been significantly higher than West Coast rates, because much smaller traffic volumes were routed to the East Coast, but recent…
EU rolling out CO2 linked road toll increases
European road freight rates will be under pressure from the 1st December as a new toll system linked to CO2 emissions begins its roll-out in Germany, with the rest of…
Moving the ride for off-season
We are happy to share that we are now playing a vital role in the off-season life of overseas professional baseball players, by carefully preparing and transporting their prized automobiles…
Clarity; Tracking with verified data
Traditional track & trace systems rely on carrier and terminal data that is often inaccurate or out of date, leading to wasted time and unnecessary cost. Our new Clarity Track…
Panama Canal restrictions may trigger supply chain changes
At the start of the week AIS tracking site Vesselfinder showed 123 ships waiting to transit the Panama Canal, which is almost a third over the average since the Canal…
Boost for global air freight market
Global air freight indexes suggest that freight rates may not only be stabilising, but even rising on some routes and while there is no evidence of any significant peak the…
Shipping lines working hard to restore rates
The container shipping lines are fighting to impose freight rate increases across the major Atlantic and Pacific trade-lanes, in an attempt to recover operations back into the black and lose…
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