Published October 26, 2021 — As Black Friday and Christmas approach, desperate shippers have been paying up to $2 million for a trans-Pacific chartered flight. In pre-pandemic 2019 peak season, it would cost between $400,000 to $700,000.
Read more
Published October 26, 2021 — The fire, which broke out onboard the "ZIM Kingston" last week, has been extinguished, the carrier said in a press release. On Friday 22 October 2021, the vessel, chartered by ZIM, en route from Pusan to Vancouver, ran into very heavy weather conditions. Dozens of containers fell overboard.
Read more
Published September 27, 2021 — NH Logistics joined our cooperative in 2019 to represent us in Belarus, where we did not have any partner until that time. The company has Dutch owners. Ever since, NH Logistics’ CEO Theodorus Schreurs has been looking forward to meet all of us in Rome, but because of Covid19 we had to postpone the AGM until March 2022. In 2020, the opportunity presented itself for NH Logistics to represent us in Ukraine as well. Besides these two branches, and their HQ in The Netherlands they have offices in 8 other countries which are situated predominantly in the former CIS. In total they have 38 employees.
Read more
Published September 16, 2021 — In China, Meishan Terminal in Ningbo port has reopened, following a Covid-related shutdown in August. Please be aware of office closures in China for the upcoming holidays of Mid-Autumn festival (Sept 19-21) and National Day Golden Week (October 1-7).
Read more
Published August 31, 2021 — Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has ordered another 75,000 teu dry boxes. The containers will be manufactured in China and delivered to Hapag-Lloyd in the course of Q4/2021. Since the beginning of 2020, Hapag-Lloyd has ordered no less than 625,000 teu. The carrier has currently built up a container fleet of more than 2.8 million teu, among them 250,000 teu reefer containers for refrigerated cargo.
Read more
Published August 23, 2021 — Due to an increase in e-commerce clients, our Toronto office has relocated to a brand-new warehouse space this month. This new location has more space to provide pick and pack services, transloading, storage, and other services to facilitate the growth of our Canadian warehousing services.
Read more
Published August 23, 2021 — It is just one of 19 terminals - but Ningbo Meidong Container Terminal is the one in Ningbo, the world's third-busiest box port. Usually, the terminal handles about one quarter of the port’s container cargo. Operations at Ningbo Meishan port terminal were suspended on 11 August 2021, after a single case of Covid-19 was reported among the terminal's staff. All inbound and outbound container operations at Meishan terminal in Ningbo-Zhoushan port have been redirected to other terminals since Wednesday morning until further notice.
Read more
Published June 11, 2021 — After a detected Covid-19 outbreak amongst port workers on 25 May, the median dwell time at Yantian Port (China) has risen to 18 days since the first week in June, according to the Chicago IL (USA)-based maritime analyst Project 44.
Read more
Published March 3, 2021 — In January 2020, the container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) registered a moderate surge in world trade and container volumes.
Read more