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China’s Golden Week Holiday

The China Golden Week holidays are coming up fast. We are currently experiencing the usual space problems from China as we move closer to peak season.  With the upcoming week long holiday, suppliers in China will also be working hard to clear the stock from their warehouses – this will cause even more space issues […]

Current Conditions

Analysts are announcing that container shipping costs and service levels are at risk of spiraling out of control. As well as a massive withdrawal of capacity since the start of the Covid-19 crisis – 468 blanked departures on east-west (US to China) trades – the analyst said schedule reliability had been “extremely low”. The blanked […]

Sydney Airport plagued with cargo congestion

The same cargo congestion issues that have paralysed big airports in the US, China and Europe during the pandemic have materialised in Australia. Dnata, which stands for Dubai National Air Transport Association, the airport operations division of the Emirates Group, warned it is experiencing delays processing import cargo at Sydney Airport because of an unplanned […]

Increasing congestion at ports due to cancelled sailings out of India

Container trades out of India are faced with increasing congestion, due to a combination of blanked sailings, equipment shortages and carriers unable to clear a backlog of bookings. According to forwarding sources in the country, every carrier is facing a “space crunch across India on all trade lanes and services”. Sources added that this was […]

China’s factories recover in July

China’s factory activity expanded in July for the fifth month in a row and at a faster pace, beating analyst expectations despite disruptions from floods and a resurgence in coronavirus cases around the world, reported Reuters. The official manufacturing Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) rose to 51.1 in July from June’s 50.9, official data showed, marking […]

Containership scrapping increases as July hits three-year high

Containership scrapping reached a three-year high in July according to Hellenic Shipping News. Sixteen ships were demolished in July, including the 1998 built 9,578-TEU Sine Maersk, the largest containership to ever be demolished. Sine Maersk -image credit marinetraffic.com The numbers reached 52,800 TEU, which surpassed the 50,600 TEU demolished in June. In the first seven […]

Peak Season Prep 2020

Who can believe we’re already half way through 2020! What a year it has been. The second half of the year tends to be even faster (is that possible), so now is the time to start thinking of you planning for the Peak Season ahead. Keeping ahead of the rush is critical in ensuring that […]

Typhoon Season – China

The northwest Pacific is the most active tropical cyclone basin in the world, with nearly one third of all tropical cyclone activity forming there. This is due to the wide expanse of high sea surface temperatures. Each day, hundreds of ships sail through the waters of the northwest Pacific. Many are sailing to or from […]

Floods in China disrupt Yangtze River cargo flow

Port operations at Shanghai and Ningbo have been severely disrupted by the nation’s worst floods in decades which have led to port closures on the Yangtze River. The floods, caused by heavy rains over the last six weeks, have also impacted container operations in southern China where reefer imports have already been disrupted by stringent […]