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…
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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Traditional track & trace systems rely on carrier and terminal data that is often inaccurate or out of date, leading to wasted time and unnecessary cost.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…
EU end carrier anti-trust exemption
With the European Union ending antitrust exemption for the container shipping alliances and imposing carbon taxes on shipping, the lines already have a challenging 2024. The abolition of the Consortia…
Container shipping line options for 2024
Despite vocal shipper complaints and the EU’s subsequent action on CBER, there’s no compelling case that carriers abused market power during the pandemic. In fact the extraordinary impact of COVID…
Asia and freight market update; October 2023
After a full year of month-on-month falls in ocean freight rates, the Xeneta Global Index (XSI) recorded its first gain in 13 months, edging up 0.2% in September. OCEAN Although…
Optimise customer experience to grow your online business
Customer service is the critical differentiator in growing your business profitably, because winning over customers and earning their trust has less to do with what you’re selling and more to…
Shippers need to take note of EU-ETS surcharge
New EU emissions regulations are set to come into force in January, covering voyages into, out of and through the EEA and the maritime industry’s cost of compliance could be…
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