Published January 20, 2023 — In terms of throughput, Shanghai is again ahead of Singapore in 2022. Despite the pandemic shutdowns, the Shanghai International Port Group (SIGP) handled more than 47.3 million teu last year.
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Published January 17, 2023 — The Copenhagen-based maritime agency provider Sea-Intelligence recently published an analysis of the cargo streams on the North America West Coast (NAWC).Compared to 2019, volume growth in 2022 stagnated during the first two months of the traditional Q3 peak season and showed an outright contraction in September 2022. This trend continued into October and November as well.
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Published December 20, 2022 — As China shifts away from a zero-Covid policy and eases restrictions, the leadership will be prioritizing economic recovery in 2023. This comes as China reported its monthly trade data for November, which was the lowest in two and a half years.
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Published October 19, 2022 — It is our great pleasure to inform you that our colleagues at Tandem Global Logistics Japan have been approved as a cargo agents of the International Air Transport Association this month.
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Published October 13, 2022 — The Copenhagen-based maritime intelligence provider Sea-Intelligence recently leveraged the capacities deployed by the carriers with the rates in the market. In the weeks following Golden Week (weeks 41-43), carriers are taking out significant levels of capacity per week on a higher scale than in 2019. These levels are also higher than those that were scheduled three weeks ago.
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Published September 2, 2022 — Our colleagues in Turkey succesfully shipped a large LPG tank from Iskenderun to Jebel Ali port (United Arab Emirates) in August. They also arranged the pre-carriage with lowbed trucks from the factory to the port of Iskenderun.
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Published August 25, 2022 — Copenhagen-based maritime analyst Sea-Intelligence sees reasons to assume that the demand-led spikes seen during the pandemic that propelled container shipping to record earnings might be over. Sea-Intelligence has gone over the numbers on supply and demand from February 2019 till June 2022, drawing the conclusion that volumes are going down.
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Published July 19, 2022 — America is facing the twin threats of rail and trucker strikes just as signs emerge that its ports on both coasts are getting overloaded once again. The ongoing negotiations between dockworker unions and employees on the US west coast is also fraying nerves for many involved in supply chains.
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Published June 27, 2022 — Having navigated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw significant drops in container volumes in 2020, carriers have shown a willingness to adjust capacity to demand, skipping sailings to keep utilisation and rates elevated. Port congestion and equipment shortages have also contributed to keeping rates up, with current spot rates from Asia to the US West Coast at $7,930, and trans-Atlantic rates from North Europe at $6,593, both figures up significantly from the previous year.
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