(Bloomberg) Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks trade and supply chains disrupted by the pandemic. Sign up here. The world’s shipping lines are avoiding a key port in China hit by a Covid-19 outbreak, causing increased congestion at other seaports across the country that likely will delay the delivery of goods to the U.S. and Europe. Tightened health and safety checks have caused congestion and reduced productivity at the port of Yantian, prompting the cancellation of calls there, according to a notice from Mediterranean Shipping Co. on Wednesday. The port located in Shenzhen stopped accepting export-bound container boxes last week and suspended three berths after a coronavirus cluster emerged among the port staff and broader community. The skipping of Yantian by ships has led to growing congestion at neighboring ports in the country, said Jason Duboe, chief growth officer of logistics start-up project44. Although shipping firms are indicating that the port is now accept
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Carriers maintain interest in NWSA with fourth new service
| Apr 28, 2021 2:09PM EDT
The new Mediterranean Shipping Co. service from China to the Northwest Seaport Alliance of Seattle and Tacoma could be followed by others as carriers seek alternative gateways to Los Angeles-Long Beach.
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By Greg Miller, Senior Editor at Freight Waves,
Prosecutors called it “the largest cocaine seizure in the 230-year history of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.” Twenty tons of cocaine worth $1 billion was found in seven containers aboard the MSC Gayane at the Philadelphia port on June 17, 2019. On Tuesday, the first of the conspirators former MSC crewmember Vladimir Penda was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison for his crime.
Fresh details on who was involved in the conspiracy and how they did it have been revealed in new legal documents filed by prosecutors.
They disclosed that a total of eight MSC crewmembers aboard the ship have pleaded guilty including the chief mate and second mate.