China’s increasingly extreme COVID Zero policies are standing in the way of a full recovery for the shipping industry and prolonging a crisis that’s snarled ports and emptied shelves worldwide. In its attempts to keep the virus out, China is continuing to prohibit crew changes for...
Trucking Strike Could Further Impact Port of Vancouver Operations Drivers at two Vancouver port trucking companies have voted to strike “if necessary to achieve a fair agreement,” said Unifor, the drivers’ union, in a statement yesterday. A strike would affect almost 200 truckers servicing the Port...
Zim Integrated Shipping Services has joined Wan Hai in diverting ships from the Asia–US West Coast trade due to congestion, suspending its expedited service call to Los Angeles for at least seven weeks....
Rail and road operations servicing the Port of Vancouver remain heavily impacted by recent flooding in British Columbia. All main routes to the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley regions are currently closed.Rail: All rail service coming to and from the Port of Vancouver is halted because of...
The northeastern port city of Dalian in China is being a third round of lockdowns and quarantine as the city has been linked to a new wave of the Delta variant of COVID-19. Health officials have begun closing non-essential businesses including at least parts of...
Sustained high demand, diminished capacity, COVID-safe work practices and apparent labour shortages continue to place immense pressure on global air freight hubs, creating congestion at multiple airports around the world. UK freight agent Metro Shipping said that, “while there are different situations at different airports, the...
As you may be aware, authorities in the U.S. proposed in the last week of October to introduce new emergency fees on cargo stuck on the terminal at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, as part of Federal efforts to alleviate the severe...
Traffic Backs Up along the Yangtze as Pilots Are Required to Quarantine Traffic along the Yangtze, China’s longest river and a massive source of cargoes both domestically and for export, is worsening. According to analysts at Singapore’s Eastport Research, traffic has been backing up at ports near...
Global port congestion and backlogs continue to play havoc on liner schedules. According to new data from Sea-Intelligence schedule reliability remains at the low end of the range seen in 2021. In September, two out ever three vessels were behind schedule with the number of...
National Shippers Advisory Council convenes, members bash LA/LB plan...
English (Canada) English (Canada) 
Français du Canada