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Shipments Delayed: Ocean Carrier Shipping Times Surge in Supply-Chain Crunch
Cargo ships have been delivering their loads later than ever this year, adding to the supply-chain woes that are undercutting efforts by...
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May 19, 20214 min read
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Biden waives US shipping law to mitigate fuel shortages
The Biden administration has temporarily waived a century-old U.S. shipping law for one company in order to mitigate fuel shortages on...
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May 16, 20212 min read
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India’s Covid-19 Surge Adds Pressure to Seafarers Stranded at Sea
Shipping companies struggling with cargo bottlenecks are again facing a potential crewing crisis as major ports refuse to accept or...
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May 13, 20213 min read
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Too cold to handle? Race is on to pioneer shipping of hydrogen
Hydrogen is touted as an inevitable green fuel of the future. Tell that to the people who'll have to ship it across the globe at...
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May 12, 20215 min read
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Shippers Brace for Two More Years of Freight Rate Pain
By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Shippers must brace themselves for at least two more years of elevated freight rates and tight supply,...
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May 9, 20212 min read
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Shipping Delays and Supply Shortages to Constrain Firms All Year
Companies worldwide expect supply-chain constraints resulting from logistics backlogs and the global semiconductor shortage to continue...
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May 2, 20212 min read
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More Shipping Containers Were Lost At Sea In Two Months Than In An Entire Year
Thousands of shipping containers have fallen overboard in recent months as massive new ships, demand for products from overseas during...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
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Are We Still Feeling The Effects Of The Suez Canal Blockage?
On the morning of March 23 2021, a 400-metre-long shipping tanker called the Ever Given wedged itself across the waterway of the Suez...
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Apr 27, 20213 min read
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Ship Operators Move Toward LNG to Pare Emissions
The maritime industry, under growing pressure to reduce shipping’s carbon emissions, is coming to a growing consensus that liquefied...
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Apr 23, 20214 min read
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Egypt impounds Ever Given ship over $900 million Suez Canal compensation bill
(CNN Business)Egyptian authorities have seized a massive cargo ship which blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week last month, amid a...
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Apr 14, 20213 min read
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Higher Shipping Costs Are Here to Stay, Sparking Price Increases
Stubbornly high shipping expenses for businesses are getting sealed into contracts for the next 12 months, forcing companies to pass the...
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Apr 12, 20214 min read
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Maersk claims progress in carbon neutral methanol hunt
Maersk’s head of decarbonisation believes that the company’s commitment to a having carbon neutral ship running on green methanol in 2023...
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Apr 11, 20213 min read
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Hapag-Lloyd CEO expects container market congestion to last until third quarter
In the wake of Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal for close to a week, Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen expects the market to...
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Apr 10, 20212 min read
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Maersk opens for short-term bookings again after Suez blockage
The container market continues to be affected by the week-long traffic jam in the Suez Canal, which has further exacerbated container...
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Apr 9, 20212 min read
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Ocean-Shipping Demand Staying ‘Very Strong,’ Hapag CEO Says
Robust demand for shipping goods across the world’s oceans shows no signs of slowing down, the chief executive of Germany’s largest...
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Apr 9, 20212 min read
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Commodity Shipping Rates Are Surging and the Rally Isn’t Over
For a glimpse of how quickly and unevenly economies are recovering from the pandemic, look no further than the market for shipping raw...
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Apr 7, 20214 min read
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Maersk adds new Asia/US East Coast string
Maersk Inc. North America has announced a new service linking ports in Vietnam and China with the US East Coast via the Panama Canal....
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Apr 6, 20212 min read
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Lead investigator in Suez Canal blockage probe boards ship
Divers inspected the underside of a colossal container ship that had blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt, spotting some damage to the bow but...
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Apr 2, 20212 min read
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Suez Canal Opens, but Shipping Will Be Snarled for Months
The bridge of the oil tanker Navig8 Aronaldo erupted in cheers after Capt. Malik Naushad told his crew to prepare to weigh anchor...
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Mar 31, 20217 min read
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Suez Canal reopens after Ever Given cargo ship successfully refloated
SUEZ, Egypt — The giant container ship that blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for the last week resumed its journey on Monday after being...
icarussmith20
Mar 30, 20213 min read
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