Freight market report – October 2022
Our latest freight market report provides multi-modal situation updates and insights, together with strike and carrier updates, that will provide you with critical insights for the weeks ahead. (more…)
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IMO 2023 poses yet another shipping challenge
From the 1st January 2023 container ships will need to meet a round of new ECO regulations, in a development that will reduce the supply of vessels in the container shipping market and may contribute to increasing costs and lower…
Read MoreFreight market report – December 2022
Our last freight market report of the year provides multi-modal situation updates and insights, together with China and carrier updates, that will provide you with critical insights for the weeks ahead. Most Chinese regional supply chains, road transport, air and…
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US West Coast ports cancel container dwell fee
15 months after announcing a dwell fee for every container left on their terminals for more than nine days, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have not levied the charge and have now announced that it will disappear…
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Freight market report – January 2023
Our first freight market report of 2023 provides multi-modal situation updates and insights, together with China and carrier updates, that will provide you with critical insights for the weeks ahead. (more…)
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The outlook for supply chains in 2023
Supply chain disruptions in 2023 should be nowhere near the scale of the past two years, because the global macroeconomic situation means volumes will be muted into the 3rd and possible 4th quarters. But geopolitical conflicts, macroeconomic changes, weather events…
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Time to help yourself to the shipping lines’ cash pile
The shipping lines pumped so much capacity into the China to Europe trade lane, to make a fortune over the last two years, that they can’t make the permanent capacity withdrawals that would protect their bottom lines and now the…
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China COVID restrictions finally loosen
Following widespread protests the Chinese government finally appear to be relaxing their zero-COVID strategy, which will give residents more freedom and finally loosen supply chain constraints. (more…)
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