Today, we ran an article on the ILWU/ PMA labour negotiations. “The PMA has pointed out that dockworkers’ wages on the west coast are approaching $195,000 a year, and the union countered with pointing to a collective profit of $150bn for the ocean shipping industry in 2021. “One observer point...

The German carrier announced that all shipments moving via barge would be stopped until 30 June, a decision that coincided with the latest update from barge operator Contargo, which noted that its wait times at Antwerp had jumped from 33 hours at the end of May to 46 hours today. In an operational u...

Unionised truckers, including cement mixers and car-carrying trailers, have stopped work while non-unionised drivers have not shown up for work in fear of reprisals from their trade union colleagues. The steel, auto and cement factories have mostly suspended shipments due to difficulties in moving t...

However, a proposal to extend its carbon market to all departing flights was passed. Yesterday’s vote came as the maritime sector debates greenhouse gas emissions at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Shipping industry organisations such as the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) h...

Hapag-Lloyd has agreed to pay $2m in civil penalties relating to violations of D&D charges. A Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) statement said the agreement with the carrier and the fines imposed are designed to restore “full confidence” in the US ocean freight regulatory system. FMC chairma...

Yesterday he walked for 12 hours, up and down Welsh mountains on his Sea-to-Sea walk along Offa’s Dyke, from the Severn estuary in south Wales to the Irish Sea coast in north Wales. “There are still four days to go – and it has been hard,” he said. “It was supposed to be the most dramatic ...

The International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which represents nearly 14,000 port workers in California, Oregon and Washington State, and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on behalf of shipping lines and terminal operators at 29 west coast ports, have been discussing terms of a new...

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The number of fatalities was revised down by authorities, but there are still many injured in hospital. The fire has reportedly now been extinguished, but concerns have turned to the 321 teu of DG goods in Bangladesh’s major facility in Chittagong, as well as 445 tonnes of chemicals and DG goods i...

He said that CSX is missing out on “lots of business”. This is ominous news as ports, forwarders and importers are bracing for the expected surge in traffic from China after the end of the lockdown in Shanghai. Rail capacity was one of the bottlenecks in the congestion of 2021, and everybody is ...