The commission has sent targeted questionnaires to relevant parties in the liner shipping supply chain, inviting feedback on the functioning of the CBER, which is due to expire in April 2024. The review will assess the impact of the CBER since its renewal in 2020 and consider whether the exemption s...

The partners said they aimed to offer end-to-end logistics infrastructure and solutions covering rail, ports, maritime services, digital services and industrial zones in the East African country. “A series of potential country-level investments to grow, improve, and promote an end-to-end maritime ...

The port improved its 7% wage increase offer yesterday with a lump sum payment of £500 ($606), but this was rejected by negotiators of the Unite union. There are no further meetings planned before the eight-day strike starts on 21 August, and shipping lines plan to reschedule calls at the port, som...

These are imposed by carriers on customers unable to return empty containers before a certain deadline. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) chairman Daniel Maffei told representatives of the trucking and terminal operating community at the port of New York and New Jersey shippers should instead be com...

Korean Airlines and Asiana Airlines have cancelled flights to Taiwan, a move emulated by many airlines with safety concerns. Shipping saw less disruption, as some liner operators chose to detour to get to the Taiwan Strait. South Korea’s HMM, SM Line, Pan Ocean and KMTC Line all said they wer...

Over 1,900 workers at the UK’s biggest container port voted overwhelmingly to take strike action after the Hutchison-owned employer declined to improve its wage increase offer at ACAS on Thursday. Ocean carriers serving the port are adopting a “wait and see” strategy, but may have few options ...

Having already imposed low water surcharges on the Kaub guage, Contargo announced a similar charge for the Duisburg-Ruhrort and Emmerich gauge and warned “some schedules will not be able to be adhered to”. “Departures and arrivals will have to be co-ordinated on a case-by-case basis,” Contar...

Following calls from air freight shippers to increase visibility, Mr McCandless told Logistic-News that, despite higher API connectivity in air, end-to-end visibility was still complex. “The real problem is that the pain point isn’t in the air, it’s elsewhere. The difficulty is in the trucks th...

This propelled the container spot rate back over $10,000, to $10,494 per 40ft – but the spike is being seen as a temporary blip, given that other indices and market fundamentals are all heading in the reverse direction. Indeed, Xeneta’s XSI North Europe reading fell a further 4.5% this week, to ...

Set to open next May, with a 2.4 km berth and 18-metre deep water, the facility on reclaimed land can accommodate five 24,000 teu containerships simultaneously, enabling it to handle around 4.5m teu a year. The first batch of equipment arrived at Kaohsiung on Monday, when Chinese crane manufact...