cargo congestion

Stealing your own freight: O’Hare cargo delays force drastic measures

A forklift moving stacks of boxes in a warehouse.

Desperate logistics service providers in Chicago are resorting to a number of new tactics, including bribery and undercover extraction missions, to avoid worsening congestion that is trapping shipments for more than a week at O’Hare International Airport’s cargo terminals, according to industry executives.

Shipment volumes at O’Hare have exploded in the past 18 months as businesses turn to air transport for critical imports of personal protective equipment, replenishment of depleted inventories...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/stealing-your-own-freight-ohare-cargo-delays-force-drastic-measures

Container Cargo Market Hot Amidst Covid 19

  • Windfall profits, cargo congestion, freight rate inflation, fleet expansion acceleration – welcome to life in the global marine cargo supply chain circa May 2021.
  • It’s also a continuation of that life from mid-2020, when the sudden spike in transpacific trade caught every link.
  • In that chain off-guard after 2020’s first-half pandemic torpedo hit the world’s container cargo fleet.
  • Highly volatile marketplace that has been suffering from chronic overcapacity issues and cutthroat freight rate...

https://mfame.guru/container-cargo-market-hot-amidst-covid-19/

Fed up with cargo congestion, freight forwarders flee O’Hare airport

Aerial view of O'Hare Airport cargo terminal.

Cargo congestion has gone from bad to worse at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, forcing importers to wait several days to retrieve shipments and prompting two large logistics companies to migrate airfreight operations an hour west to an uncrowded facility in Rockford, Illinois.

There is so much cargo piling up at O’Hare that airline-handling agents for the first time in memory are actually renting warehouses in surrounding townships to hold the overflow until it can be sorted for customer...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/fed-up-with-cargo-congestion-freight-forwarders-flee-ohare-airport

Cargo congestion plagues Sydney airport in Australia

A white cargo tug moves a shipment after unloading from the rear ramp of a massive cargo plane. dnata is an airport services operator and faces congestion problems at Sydney Airport.

The same cargo congestion issues that have paralyzed big airports in the U.S., China and Europe during the pandemic have materialized in Australia.

On Wednesday dnata, the airport operations division of the Emirates Group, warned it is experiencing delays processing import cargo at Sydney Airport because of an unplanned spike in volume from additional freighter services and passenger planes operating in cargo mode. The passenger aircraft include large shipments of medical supplies and personal...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cargo-congestion-plagues-sydney-airport-in-australia

Cargo clogs U.S. airports as freighters proliferate

Big white 747 freigher with nose cone up to load cargo.

Snapshot: Cargo congestion is a big problem behind the scenes at some major U.S. airports. The coronavirus forced big industry changes that have exacerbated existing inefficiencies due to poor coordination and infrastructure.

  • Ground handlers are understaffed and big freighters are dumping cargo faster than they can process it.
  • The lack of passenger flights has changed the entire dynamic of cargo handling at airports.
  • New technologies are helping to improve communication among airliners, freight...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/cargo-clogs-u-s-airports-as-freighters-proliferate

Shanghai Pudong airport continues to choke on cargo

Cargo terminal at Shanghai Airport.

Cargo terminals at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport remain extremely congested, but logistics companies responsible for getting shipments from their customers and on planes say the flood of freight trapped in warehouses is slowly beginning to recede.

“There are some green shoots of progress,” Neel Jones Shah, global head of airfreight at tech-enabled forwarder Flexport, said in an interview. “Some backlogs have been worked through. We’re getting a little bit of clearance in our own...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/shanghai-pudong-airport-continues-to-choke-on-cargo