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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Published June 3, 2022 — Shanghai fully reopened on June 1 after a city-wide COVID lockdown that started in March. Shanghai’s port, which is the largest in the world, has been operating throughout the lockdown at severely reduced capacity, causing many shipments to be cancelled, postponed, or rerouted.
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Published April 20, 2022 — The city of Shanghai and its 25 million people are under an indefinite lockdown as China deals with its largest Covid-19 outbreak since the pandemic started. The good news is that China has kept the ports open. The bad news is that the critical shortage of truck drivers is impacting shipping volume, with one source estimated a 26% decrease in early April.
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Published April 6, 2022 — From the 27th through the 29th of March, Tandem Global Logistics Network (TGLN) could finally hold its 13th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Rome, Italy, after two years of rescheduling as a result of the global pandemic. The meeting, which marked TGLN’s 15th anniversary, was hosted by Iscotrans S.p.A. and 60 delegates exclusively representing 32 countries were very happy to see each other again to strengthen their business relationships and to engage in business development meetings.
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Published March 24, 2022 — Tandem Global Logistics Germany (The Rieck Logistics Group) is investing around EUR 26 million in a new freight forwarding facility in north-west Berlin. The construction of the new terminal is already in full swing and the first concrete columns are currently being erected.
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