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Typhoon Kong-ray creates congestion at Shanghai, Ningbo and Kaohsiung

Martina Li in Taiwan — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:31:51 +0000

Asian container ports Shanghai, Ningbo and Kaohisung are working through congestion after Typhoon Kong-Rey blew through last week.
And Kong-rey, which made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday, was the strongest typhoon to lash Taiwan since 1996.
According to EconDB, Kaohsiung, the island’s main container port, is experiencing 100% delays for all incoming box ships, which amount to 69 over the next seven days.
ONE’s vessel schedule shows the 1,100 teu Contship Era arrived in ...

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Typhoon Bebinca shuts down port operations in Shanghai and Ningbo

Martina Li in Taiwan — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:13:20 +0000

Departures from Shanghai’s container terminals are likely to be erratic following typhoon Bebinca causing serious vessel bunching that could also lead to serious disruption to vessel schedules at destination ports.
Bebinca is the strongest typhoon to hit Shanghai since 1949, and ships that moved away from the port in anticipation of the storm will return over the coming days, resulting in vessel bunching that is expected to cause delays lasting over ...

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Carriers launch new transpac shuttle services as Chinese exports surge

Alexander Whiteman — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:58:32 +0000

Container lines on Asia-America trades are set to take advantage of strong demand propelled by a rush of cargo out of China.

The latest push comes from MSC, which has reopened its Mustang shuttle service between China and the US west coast, which began in late 2021, only to be suspended when the pandemic-induced volume surges halted.

Due to relaunch in week 28, it will offer a rotation of Yantian, Ningbo, Shanghai, ...

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Hong Kong drops out of world’s top 10 busiest container ports

Gavin van Marle — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:34:27 +0000

Hong Kong fell out of the world’s top 10 container ports last year, for the first time in the history of container shipping, according to new data from Alphaliner on the world’s busiest 30 box ports.
HK saw traffic last year drop 14.1%, to 14.3m teu, establishing the long-term decline of what was always a leading container port – 20 years ago it regularly vied with Singapore and Shanghai for the ...

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Hong Kong port’s star status in the alliance universe is on the wane

Gavin van Marle — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:26:17 +0000

Hong Kong’s status as one of the world’s premier container gateways and transhipment hubs is now well on the way to becoming a thing of the past, after its exclusion as a port of call from a range of east-west alliance services.
Last week, the remaining members of THE Alliance – ONE, Yang Ming and HMM – took the novel step of announcing the VSA’s planned transpacific network for 2025, with ...

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China congestion easing after projected cargo boom fails to materialise

Sam Whelan — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:22:06 +0000

China’s port congestion is easing as Shanghai’s post-lockdown cargo boom fails to materialise, and the city’s container supply chain recovery seems unaffected by a sudden lurch back to lockdown last weekend.
Crane Worldwide Logistics said Shanghai was operating as usual after yet another round of mass testing, noting only shippers with facilities in quarantined areas would be impacted.
The forwarder added: “The majority of cities outside of Shanghai are now accepting trucks ...

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OceanX radar: Oh Joe! Inflation’s effects; port strikes; carrier fines; carbon tax is a-coming

Gavin van Marle — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:47:18 +0000

Policymakers everywhere have been searching for scapegoats to blame inflation on – in Germany and Europe it is the war and fossil fuel costs that are the chief culprits while in the US, Joe Biden has identified “foreign-owned shipping companies“ as the main driver.
Perhaps shipping lines should take a leaf from the Amazon book of business and invest in Washington lobbying or raise some PACs [political action committees] for the ...

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Pent-up Shanghai cargo exports will swamp Europe’s inland services

Alexander Whiteman — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:09:09 +0000

Europe’s inland barge terminals may find themselves overrun by an “avalanche” of containers as Shanghai’s lockdown ends, which could be by the end of the month, said one source today.
The warning comes as the worsening wait times along northern Europe’s canals appeared to be easing.
Contargo reported waits into Rotterdam of 57 hours, compared with 99 hours a week earlier, although another source seemed less than impressed with the decline.
“It’s the ...

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China transport crisis spreads as holiday looms and cities eye more lockdowns

Sam Whelan — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:33:34 +0000

The Chinese export and logistics market is moving even deeper into limbo, as the country heads for a three-day ‘labour’ holiday on Sunday .
In Shanghai, Thomas Gronen, head of Greater China at Fibs Logistics, said the lockdown impact on cargo had not improved, despite official talk of restarting manufacturing and a tiered reopening of the city.
He told The Loadstar: “Some parts of Shanghai have opened up, but these appear to ...

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Carriers adopt ‘hardcore’ blank sailing strategy as export bookings plunge

Mike Wackett — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:34:59 +0000

As Shanghai enters the fourth week of its zero-tolerance Covid lockdown, forward export bookings are said to be down by 40% or more, prompting carriers to consolidate loads and blank more sailings.
According to one carrier contact, lines may be obliged to implement a “hardcore” blanking strategy to mitigate the impact of the cargo shortfall.
The source said many of the numerous containerships currently at anchor off Shanghai port are “simply waiting ...

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