A coronavirus lockdown in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Yiwu – home to the world’s largest small commodities market – is clouding the outlook for the country’s biggest export season ahead of Christmas. The city in eastern Zhejiang province was put under a three-day lockdown on...
Container ships waiting Thursday off Savannah (left) and Houston (right). (Maps: MarineTraffic) If you only look at Los Angeles and Long Beach — the largest container import gateway in America — you’d think shipping congestion has drastically reduced. The number of ships waiting there has fallen...
The two-and-a-half year-long global pandemic has come full circle with news today of a lockdown at one of China’s largest river ports, Wuhan, the central Chinese city where covid was first detected. A district containing around 1m people on the outskirts of Wuhan has been locked...
Surplus containers are piling up at warehouses as demand wears out, resulting in rising demurrage and detention charges, contributing substantially to the operational costs for shippers. These were a few inferences that were discussed during a recent webinar hosted by Container xChange, the world’s leading...
Traffic at the Port of Vancouver could be disrupted next week as truckers affected by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s Rolling Truck Age Program contemplate job action as early as Aug. 1. From Sept. 15, the port will ban container-hauling trucks with model years older than...
Logistics managers are feeling far from “dynamic” about the latest COVID spread being reported in the Chinese cities of Gansu, Shanghai, Guangxi, Guangdong and Henan. The highly infectious BA.5 variant has been detected in seven cities and many areas are implementing the requirement of having two...
CN issued the following customer notification on July 15. As you may be aware, the current intermodal supply chain landscape in Canada has been disrupted. This is primarily due to the extended periods of time that loaded import containers remain at inland terminals without being picked...
Amid the worst political and economic turmoil in the country’s history, port operations around the island of Sri Lanka are managing to continue normally. The country is broke, having failed to repay international loans, with fuel supplies limited and power outages now a daily occurrence. The anger...
Rail flows from ports to the Canadian metropolises of Toronto and Montreal are stuck in low gear, with no end to the congestion in sight. Boxes have piled up at the ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert, as it takes longer to move them off the...
Some 3,300 trucks, laden with export cargo, are waiting at the gates of the 19 off docks in Chittagong to unload goods, while some 9,300 teu export-ready containers are awaiting vessel designation for shipment. Usually, some 6,000 teu of outbound containers are waiting for shipment, but...