No relief from 'ridiculously expensive' container shipping rates
Trans-Pacific container shipping rates remain exceptionally strong despite a dip earlier this month.
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Trans-Pacific container shipping rates remain exceptionally strong despite a dip earlier this month.
A fall in UK-born lorry driver numbers attributed to early retirement appears to have fuelled the shortage
Global ports are growing more gridlocked as the pandemic era’s supply shocks intensify, threatening to spoil the holiday shopping season, erode corporate profits and drive up consumer prices. Bloomberg’s Port Congestion Tracker shows a typhoon in Asia spawned another wild week for shipping in a year with multiple challenges—a vessel…
Global ports are growing more gridlocked as the COVID-19 pandemic era’s supply shocks intensify, threatening to spoil the Christmas shopping season, erode corporate profits and drive up consumer prices. Bloomberg’s Port Congestion Tracker shows that a typhoon in Asia spawned another wild week for shipping in a year with multiple challenges — a vessel wedged in the Suez Canal, a dozen major storms, rolling COVID-19 lockdowns disrupting key manufacturing hubs in China and Vietnam, a shortage of truckers and dockworkers, and a resurgence of consumer demand. As of Friday, at least 107 contai...
Shipping consultancy Drewry has repeatedly upped its estimates for total ocean carrier earnings this...