Royal Australian Navy Anzac-class frigate HMAS Warramunga (FFH-152) transits the Savu Sea after completing a refueling-at-sea with Fleet Replenishment Oiler USNS Rappahannock (T-AO-204), Dec. 11, 2021. US Navy Photo
Australia and Canada have wrapped up their Asia Pacific deployments with the return of their ships home, while a U.S Los Angeles-class submarine has arrived at its new homeport in Guam.
Destroyer HMAS Brisbane (DDG41) and frigate HMAS Warramunga (FFH152) returned today to their...
Intra-Asia freight rates from China are soaring as forwarders discover “it’s not just Maersk” giving them the cold shoulder.
One forwarder in Shanghai told The Loadstar that 90% of container vessels departing China’s ports were delayed – bottlenecks in destination markets the main culprit.
He added: “After a period of soft rates for almost two months, sea freight prices have gone upwards again.
“The overall volume ex-China is less, but the overseas disruption …
The post Intra-Asia rates hit new...
Adm. Christopher Grady, then-commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command on Jan. 16, 2020. US Navy Photo
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Adm. Christopher Grady to serve as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Grady, who most recently was the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces, will be second-highest ranking military officer once he’s sworn into the position.
The upper chamber also confirmed Rear Adm. Collin Green to serve as the deputy commander of U.S. Special Operations Command and promoted him...
“Catch me if you can” – new Chinese privacy law causes AIS disruption
At a Glance…
On August 20, 2021, China’s National People’s Congress passed a law to regulate the processing and collection – as well as the cross-border transfer – of personal information. Known as the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), the law came into force on November 1, 2021. The effects of PIPL were immediately felt in the maritime sector, where the number of Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals in...
Chinese fishing boats heading out to sea from Zhoushan in Zhejiang province
Illegal and unreported fishing “is happening on an industrial scale” around the globe and the culprit often is China’s subsidized fishing fleet, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said today.
Speaking Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he added, “one in five fish” sold on international markets is illegally caught. Declining fish populations due to climate change and overfishing are having a...
https://news.usni.org/2021/12/16/secnav-del-toro-sounds-alarm-over-chinese-illegal-fishing
China’s General Administration of Customs has taken delivery of two new steel-aluminium patrol vessels in a series from a local shipyard. Zhongguo Haiguan 1101 ( ..
Chinese builder HID Dredger recently delivered a new cutter suction dredger to an unnamed operator in the UAE. The non-self-propelled vessel has a length of 45 metres, a ..
This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.
TOPIC: How maritime is impacting the domestic supply chain
DETAILS: What’s happening at the ports is reverberating inland. How should shippers manage their supply chains to minimize fallout, given that port pressures should extend well into next year?
SPEAKERS: Jon Monroe, founder, Jon Monroe Consulting, and Greg Miller, senior editor, FreightWaves and American Shipper
BIO: Monroe is a veteran of the container shipping...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dsc-chat-monroe-sees-supply-chain-squeeze-through-most-of-2022
Lockdowns across China’s Zhejiang province have prompted multiple factory closures, and new restrictions have been placed on trucking.
China reported new Covid cases in Tianjin and Guangzhou this week, including the Omicron variant, but the outbreak in Zhejiang, another major manufacturing heartland, remains the most serious.
For example, 20 listed companies operating in the province have suspended operations, according to Reuters, including battery, textile and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
The...
https://theloadstar.com/factories-shut-and-ningbo-restricts-truckers-in-zhejiang-province-lockdowns/
Two new all-electric vessels have begun sailing on nighttime sightseeing excursions of the Pearl River in southern China. The 42.5-metre Zhujiang Wangzi (“Pearl Riv ..