A new whitepaper from Maersk has highlighted the extent of Asia Pacific’s trade growth, noting the region’s “meteoric rise as a consumption market” has prompted 50% growth in intra-Asia exports since 2019. “This includes a quadrupling of e-commerce during the past three years, which is fur...

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...

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...

Hapag-Lloyd’s Merkur Ocean, a 3,868 teu vessel, is due to call at Nhava Sheva (JNPT) on 17 June, according to port sources. The extra-loader has been deployed with the same rotation Hapag-Lloyd’s IN2 Service provides on a weekly frequency, calling Port Qasim, Nhava Sheva (JNPT), Mundra, New York...

According to Rohan Masakorala, CEO of Shippers’ Academy Colombo, the South Asian transhipment hub did suffer some operational disruption last month, but it was short lived. “I think it’s all a bit of a cooked-up story,” he told Logistic-News. “There were a couple of days where the [inter-te...