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Dockers have begun an eight day strike in Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, responsible for about 48 percent of container traffic. It handles 4 million containers a year from 2,000 ships.

The start of industrial action by Felixstowe workers follows a plethora of strikes by thousands of transport workers in the UK in disputes over pay as the cost... 21.08.2022, Sputnik International

Pandemic-era stockpiling may be over, but port congestion will take months to fully ease

The Global Shippers Forum has entered the debate on the level of competition versus concentration in...

The Global Shippers Forum has entered the debate on the level of competition versus concentration in...

Current measures of competitiveness in the global liner shipping market are incomplete and therefore inaccurate and fail to take full account of the degree of co-operation between carriers which results in a more highly concentrated industry, to the serious detriment of shippers worldwide. This conclusion is one of the findings presented in the Container Shipping ...

The Global Shippers Forum has reacted with suspicion to the announcement by the Maersk container shipping line of new fuel…

Shipping companies fear higher freight costs due to carbon tax

Shippers fear that the proposed Carbon Tax on bunker fuel, which will come up at this week’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting at the IMO, is set to raise freight costs beyond their already record levels.

Such is the serious fear of the global business organisation representing cargo owners which export and import across international supply chains, the Global Shippers Forum. Following the decade-long efforts of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to gain agreement on the so-called IMO 2023, a set of energy efficiency measures for existing ships, which final take ...