Maersk Coastal Connect’s two 2,500 teu ships will provide weekly port coverage of Tauranga, Timaru and Lyttelton, and fortnightly coverage of Nelson and Auckland. Maersk said the new service would bring “much-needed schedule resilience, flexibility and superior coverage to the New Zealand supply...

Eleanor Hadland, senior ports & terminals analyst at Drewry, told delegates a recent survey by the consultancy showed “shippers don’t expect port congestion to improve until the second half of 2023, while freight rates are never going to return to pre-pandemic levels”. Lamia Kerjoudj-Belka...

Allseas Shipping Company (ASC), a joint-venture between Allseas Global and First Containers, was formally launched at the Multimodal show in Birmingham, because, says the forwarder, it wants to maintain its independence. “When we launched this, it came under the banner of the China Express, which ...

The groups met with President Joe Biden on Friday onboard the battleship USS Iowa in San Pedro, California, to discuss a range of issues, including congestion and their “shared commitment to reach a collective bargaining agreement that is fair to both parties”. The current agreement expires at 5...

The charges vary per country, but in Bangladesh, by paying $10 for the Container Protect Essential product, an importer can enjoy up to $100 in damage repair cost coverage. If the importer pays $50, there is unlimited coverage to repair damage. “Maersk has introduced the product in consultation wi...

Both the federal government in Ottawa and the province of New Brunswick have dug up funds to support its expansion and are pumping C$37.8m (US$29.9m) into the project, which will add a second berth and rail track to more than double rail capacity. Transport Canada is allocating C$21m to increasing p...

He claims regulatory intervention is necessary for a more democratic logistics sector to emerge. Speaking on a platform with Maersk’s UK and Ireland representative, Samantha Brocklehurst, and Nick Winder, of WIN Logistics Group, at this year’s Multimodal show in Birmingham, the debate turned to ...

The bill still needs the signature of President Joe Biden, but that is seen as a formality, given his recent critical comments on ocean carriers. FMC chairman Daniel Maffei said: “I applaud today’s passage of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 by the US House of Representatives and look ...

According to the Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA), there has been little improvement to the country’s container logistics congestion this year. The CTAA said: “For the past few years, and again currently, the landside sector is facing chronic gate-in and overall capacity constraints...

Shipping costs are already high for consumers of the service, but new measures to tackle climate change will mean that, even as demand for vessel services decreases post-pandemic, the costs for carriers will rise as regulations become more stringent. International Maritime Organization (IMO) secreta...