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Container shipping
Maersk Spot Makes Container Shipping As Easy As Booking An Airline Ticket!
The shipping industry is stuck in the past and the challenges are many and well-known; last-minute changes in pricing; lengthy booking processes, and limited predictability makes planning and budgeting for customers a nightmare, writes Sushil Sriram, Head of Maersk’s Revenue Management Europe in an article published on the Maersk website.
Customer BottlenecksThe article further illustrates how Customers in their private lives can easily ‘click-book-pay’ an airline ticket or a hotel but this...
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Ambitious Sri Lanka wants to become a global maritime and logistics centre
Sri Lanka has ambitions to move up from being a south Asia transhipment hub to a global maritime and logistics centre on a par with Dubai and Singapore.
“Geographically, what a lot of people don’t understand, is Sri Lanka has immense advantages,” said Rohan Masakorala, chief executive of Shippers’ Academy Colombo.
“We’re in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with these two hubs almost equally either side: Sri Lanka is four days’ …
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Australian shipper raps hiked port fees for containers and eyes bulk transport
One of Australia’s largest agricultural shippers has lashed out at “rapid increases” to port infrastructure fees levied by the country’s terminal operators.
Last week, a report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed how the country’s stevedores are using the controversial charges to offset declining volumes and quayside revenue.
As a group, DP World Australia (DPWA), Patrick, Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT) and Hutchison Ports, increased average...
Flexport opens container freight station in Vietnam as supply chains shift
Flexport has partnered with Vietnam’s Indo Trans Logistics (ITL) to open a new container freight station (CFS) outside Ho Chi Minh City.
Located in Thu Dau Mot City, around 30km from the southern commercial capital, the cross-dock facility will serve as a vital hub for Flexport’s South-east Asia operations, the company said.
“As more businesses move to diversify supply chains, they are seeking strategic locations to better serve them,” Flexport noted.
“One ripple …
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Amidst Increasing Sizes & Stagnant Growth,Container Shipping Balance To Worsen: BIMCO
Demand drivers and freight rates Global growth in container volumes has picked up slightly in the second quarter of the year, with growth in the first seven months reaching 1.2%, compared to the just 0.8% in the first quarter, writes BIMCO’s Chief Shipping Analyst, Peter Sand in article published in their website which describes the container shipping market scenario .
Low figure masking differences?Sand goes onto highlight how despite this rise, the growth figure remains substantially below...
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40 Feet High Cube Containers To Spur Adoption Of Dry And Reefer Containers – Report
According to a study report, the global shipping containers market is anticipated to witness significant market valuation and a robust growth rate during the period of assessment 2017-2025.
The comprehensive shipping containers market research report focuses on various trends, developments, opportunities, restraints, drivers and challenges impacting the growth of the global shipping containers market. These factors vary in magnitude in different regions for which a detailed analysis is covered...
Data Shows 9.6% Reduction In CO2 Emissions From Container Shipping Since 2015 – Clean Cargo
Annual report from Clean Cargo, representing approximately 80 percent of ocean containerized shipping and major global buyers, reveals steady progress in emissions reductions but highlights continued need for bold solutions to meet decarbonization challenge
Carbon dioxide emissions from 17 of the world’s leading ocean container carriers, representing approximately 80 percent of global containerized shipping, continued to fall in 2018, according to a new report from BSR’s Clean CargoTM.
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Decarbonisation and greener fuel now looming large on shipping’s radar
Decarbonisation is now the second most important issue for the shipping industry, according to a report released today by the Global Maritime Forum.
The Global Maritime Issues Monitor 2019, which surveyed respondents from 46 countries, ranked only the “global economic crisis” ahead of “decarbonisation of shipping” as the issue to have the greatest impact on the industry over the next decade.
“And the pending 2020 IMO low-sulphur regulation appears to be on …
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HPH results sum up Hong Kong port woes, but terminals alliance brings hope
The long-term decline in container volumes at the port of Hong Kong has again been highlighted with the release of Hutchison Port Holdings Trust’s (HPH) nine-month results.
However, some hope for the maritime hub’s future may be on the horizon, following the “tremendously successful” launch of the Hong Kong Seaport Alliance (HKSPA) by HPH, Cosco, Asia Container Terminals and Modern Terminals.
HPH operates the three Kwai Tsing terminals in Hong Kong and, …
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