Therefore they are “incomplete” and “inaccurate”, claims consultant MDS Transmodal (MDST) As the EC gears up for its two-year container shipping Consortia Block Exemption Review (CBER), expected to be announced this week, a joint report by the Global shippers’ Forum (GSF) and MDST, publish...

Misdeclared booking weights can cause the weight allocations of individual alliance partners to be exceeded, ships to shut out cargo, contracts to underperform and revenue to be lost. For instance, Japanese carrier ONE said a $2,000 per container weight discrepancy charge (WDS) would be applicable f...

Transport & Environment (T&E) today said the results of passing on the cost of clean shipping to the end customer would be ‘negligible’. In the past, the cost of transport for a pair of the ubiquitous trainers was put at one cent, today T&E ague that the decarbonisation will increase...

The funds were invested in a Series C round that is usually a start-up’s final phase of venture capital financing. With this latest tranche, Deliveree, which operates in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines (under the brand Transportify) has raised $109m in the past five years While Deliveree h...

Ocean freight Since the reopening of Shanghai, we have seen mixed signals from the market. Though commercially, companies are returning to the office, the manufacturing ramp-up is proving to be a more prolonged process. As a result, the overall market remains softer than predicted. As recently repor...

The consultancy said some 8.7m boxes are likely to be fitted with tracking devices in the coming years, an estimate contrasting with a figure of 3.6% by the end of 2021, obtained through a ‘census’ of equipment. Reefer and intermodal containers are well-represented in the Drewry findings, being ...

The ship thought to be the 9,400dwt Forest 6 general cargo vessel, was loading a container of 25-30 tonnes of chlorine using a quay crane at around 4.18pm local time when wires snapped, the container dropped onto the deck and exploded, spreading toxic gas around the port and vicinity. Local beaches ...

The Ship It Zero resolution was introduced by city council member Cindy Allen in April and mirrors the resolution passed by Los Angeles in November The resolution includes a call to create a green transport corridor on the transpacific lane between Shanghai and LA and LB ports, a programme announced...

The International Maritime Organization’s Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) will require verification that, at at its first annual or intermediate survey after 1 January 2023, a vessel meets these standards. And many ageing containerships c...

The difficulties for deepsea container lines in loading and unloading cargo at the largest hub port, and the obstacles to shippers and forwarders collecting and delivering cargo, have been well documented. One answer for carriers has been to unload European imports at secondary ports, where ber...