Container Imbalance

HMM Launches Digital System To ‘Track & Trace’ Empty Containers

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South Korea’s flagship container carrier HMM has designed its own online system to locate and exchange empty containers with other companies, reports the Loadstar.

Resolving the container imbalance

The company yesterday applied to patent its HMM Container Interchange Platform (HIP). “HIP is a self-developed service to quickly exchange HMM’s containers with other companies’ to resolve the container imbalance by region,” said HMM.

It said an imbalance of container...

https://mfame.guru/hmm-launches-digital-system-to-track-trace-empty-containers/

COVID19 Container Imbalance ‘Tipping Point’ Causes Forwarders To Help Shippers With Logistics!

According to a Freight Waves article written by Chris Gillis, a global association representing the freight forwarding industry warned in a Wednesday position paper that the coronavirus pandemic’s severe impact on supply chains means the imbalance of container equipment to keep cargo moving is at a “tipping point.”

What is it?

The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (known by its French acronym FIATA) called container imbalances a“perennial issue in the supply chain” in...

https://mfame.guru/covid19-container-imbalance-tipping-point-causes-forwarders-to-help-shippers-with-logistics/

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