The shock of the double-attack on the Maersk Hangzhou on Sunday has prompted the Danish shipping line to follow other leading container shipping lines and divert their vessels away from…
The Gulf of Aden is the approach to the Suez Canal from Asia, with 50-60 vessels transiting each day, but as a result of the situation in Israel attacks in…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Effective supply chains are essential to support business operation and growth, and the supply chain’s…
Some areas of global trade continue to experience extreme congestion, while other areas are operating…
With ongoing disruption continuing at Felixstowe, Maersk and OOCL have warned customers of delays, some…
