El martes, Australia dijo que levantaría su prohibición de entrada a los cruceros internacionales el mes que viene, poniendo fin de forma efectiva a todas las prohibiciones de viaje relacionadas con el COVID después de dos años e impulsando una industria turística muy afectada por las restricciones...
https://fullavantenews.com/se-levanta-la-prohibicion-de-cruceros-por-covid-19-en-australia/?lang=es
Seafarers are still suffering unnecessarily because of government actions to mitigate the impacts of the COVID pandemic, four key UN bodies have said.
The joint statement has been released by the International Labour Organization, the International Maritime Organization, the UN Convention on Trade & Development and the World Health Organization.
Seafarers are still being stranded...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/un-bodies-call-on-governments-to-alleviate-seafarer-crisis/
Cathay Pacific carried fewer than 25,000 passengers in January, a 99.2% decline from three years ago, and cargo volume is down to 21% of pre-COVID levels, according to monthly traffic figures released Thursday that illustrate the devastating impact of Hong Kong’s restrictive reaction to the omicron variant.
With its large freighter fleet and extensive long-haul passenger network, Cathay has traditionally been one of the crown jewels in air cargo. It was the third-largest carrier by amount of...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cathay-pacific-limps-through-q1-with-20-cargo-capacity
Wabash has a lot of trailers and bodies to build based on a 70% year-over-year growth in its backlog — so many that it will take practically no more orders this year.
COVID-related absences, the ongoing supply chain crisis and higher commodity prices it could not recover from customers hit the company hard in Q4. About 5% to 10% of the $2.5 billion in unbuilt orders — an increase of $600 million from the end of Q3 — slipped into 2022.
That is going to make a typically tough first quarter for...
Las cadenas de suministro australianas siguen sufriendo una gran perturbación por la escasez de personal relacionada con Covid.
Esta entrada La escasez de personal aumenta los retrasos de la cadena de suministro australiana Aparece primero en FullAvanteNews.
Continued controls on seafarers arriving in New South Wales now seem to be rather pointless because they can no longer fulfil their policy goals and their monetary and non-monetary costs now outweigh their benefits, Shipping Australia has said in a...
Relief has arrived for the struggling NSW landside freight supply chains which have been battered by workers falling prey to Omicron-Delta and to being forced to isolate by NSW government rules. An amendment that entered into force today (Friday 14 January 2022) makes it abundantly clear that freight workers have an exemption from the isolation rules that enables them to go to work.
Empty supermarket shelves and extensive...
New January 2022 data from the Neptune Declaration shows that 59.8% of seafarers in its sample have been vaccinated against COVID. This is an increase of 10.3 percentage points since November 2021.
By way of comparison, the proportion of the EU...
https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/nearly-two-thirds-of-seafarers-now-vaccinated-against-covid/
Researchers at the New York Federal Reserve have a new way to measure the logistics chaos that’s being partially blamed for consumer price inflation: the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI).
The new measure aggregates 27 indicators — including two shipping indexes, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and Harpex index — into a standard deviation from the average since 1997. It’s designed to provide “a more comprehensive summary of potential disruptions affecting global supply chains.”
So, how high...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/new-index-measures-supply-chain-pressure-and-its-really-high
