After a year of headlines lamenting a congested supply chain, a report ranking port efficiency made it official: Southern California’s ports were the least efficient in 2021. The backlog of ships awaiting a berth in San Pedro Bay last year topped 100 — a threshold that didn’t consistently abate until Lunar New Year of 2022. Released […]
Read MoreCommissioner Rebecca F. Dye today released her Final Report for Fact Finding 29, “The Effects of COVID-19 on the U.S. International Ocean Transportation Supply Chain,” a two-year investigation involving hundreds of Commission stakeholders participating through Team meetings, phone conversations, emails, and presentations to various groups. Commissioner Dye presented the Final Report with twelve Final Recommendations to […]
Read MoreAlliance carriers need to add three ships per loop to sustain weekly frequency and maintain schedule integrity on the Asia-North Europe corridor, Alphaliner analysis showed. After assessing the completion of round-trip voyages between 1 May and 15 May, Alphaliner noted that ships on Asia-North Europe loops arrived back in China, on average 20 days late […]
Read MoreIt is not news to anyone that global shipping continues to be a mess. As China is still being ravaged by COVID, and Ukraine and Russia are still in the darkest days of war; it begs the question: when will logistics return to normal? The U.S. is facing some of the largest inflation rates […]
Read MoreChina has mandated a strict “zero COVID” policy since the onset of the global pandemic, which has led to tight lockdowns across the country whenever cases have started to spike. Recently, lockdown restrictions have been enacted in major cities like Shenzhen and Shanghai, as China deals with one of its worst outbreaks since Wuhan in December […]
Read MoreNo material impact on blank sailings has yet been observed from the lockdown in Shanghai said Sea-Intelligence. The lockdown in Shanghai differs from the Yantian closure in 2021 as Shanghai port remains open and operational, Sea-Intelligence said, with the “problematic part” being the closed manufacturing sites and warehouses, as well as a reduction in available […]
Read MoreThe outlook on U.S. logistics is grim to say the least. Despite efforts to help ease congestion and increase workflow, the volume that ports, rails, and warehouses are dealing with is unprecedented. The infamous congestion seen at Los Angeles and Long Beach has yet to be dampened, and now the list of nearly impossible ports […]
Read MoreThe Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has provided an additional 30 days for public comment on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Demurrage and Detention Billing Requirements. interested parties now have until April 16, 2022 to file comments with the Commission. The Commission initiated the ANPRM to gauge if a new rule governing demurrage and detention […]
Read MoreSam Chambers Splash247 Shenzhen might have got through the worst of another Covid lockdown, but the ripple effects of China’s battle with omicron are seeing ships back up along the nation’s coastline with carriers forced to change schedules to avoid growing congestion issues. Shenzhen came out of a seven-day lockdown yesterday, and while its […]
Read MoreBy Mike Wackett The Loadstar Average vessel waiting times for berth and labor have improved significantly at the San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in the past few weeks, halving the number of queueing ships to below 50. Moreover, according to the latest data from the Los Angeles Signal port optimizer platform, […]
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