11 Dec 2022

Clogged Warehouses And Rail Delays Signal New Supply Chain Woes

  Public attention has waned two years into the crisis that disrupted global supply chains, giving the impression that everything is back to normal. On the ground, the US’s busiest port complex is still battling bottlenecks across the board. Responsible for 42% of all containerized trade with Asia, the US’s largest hubs of Los Angeles […]

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08 Dec 2022

Carriers Forecast no Improvement in Trans-Atlantic Schedules

  Carriers have warned the Tran-Atlantic’s low schedule reliability in April will continue to persist through the rest of the year. “We do not expect an improvement in schedule disruptions through the end of the year,” Matthew Hill, head of the North America import market for Maersk, told JOC.com. “The primary issue will be the […]

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02 Dec 2022

FMC FACT FINDING INVESTIGATION 29 EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE U.S. INTERNATIONAL OCEAN SUPPLY CHAIN

  Commissioner 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 […]

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12 Sep 2022

Carriers Struggle with Schedule Integrity as Port Congestion Worsens in North Europe

Alliance 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 […]

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03 Sep 2022

Congestion still playing a role

  It 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 […]

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23 Apr 2022

“No Material Impact (Yet)” on Blank Sailings

No 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 […]

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