By Bruno Kelly and Jake Spring MANAUS, Brazil, Oct 4 (Reuters) – The river port in the Amazon rainforest’s largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought…
https://gcaptain.com/levels-at-amazon-port-hits-122-year-low-amid-drought/
A.P. Moller-Maersk has announced it will begin using a freight railroad to bypass the drought-stricken Panama Canal, as low water levels have forced authorities to limit the number of large ships passing through.
The shipping container giant said Wednesday its Oceania-Americas (OC1) service, which normally uses cargo ships to transit the canal, will instead utilize the Panama Canal Railway, a 47-mile railroad running adjacent to the canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/maersk-to-use-freight-rail-to-circumvent-panama-canal-amid-drought
SAO PAULO, Oct 13 (Reuters) – A severe drought is disrupting barge traffic on the Tapajos river in the Amazon rainforest, shipping agencies told clients this week as Brazil enters the final months of 2023’s…
https://gcaptain.com/amazon-drought-continues-to-disrupt-barge-traffic/
The Panama Canal Authority has announced plans to reduce daily vessel transits to help conserve water due to an ongoing drought. The new restrictions come as the ACP has already…
https://gcaptain.com/severe-drought-forces-panama-canal-to-restrict-number-of-daily-vessel-transits/
By Agnieszka de Sousa, Flavia Rotondi and Tarso Veloso (Bloomberg) –As scorching temperatures ravage farms from the US to China, crop harvests, fruit production and dairy output are all coming under pressure. That…
https://gcaptain.com/heat-war-and-export-bans-global-food-threats-are-on-the-rise/
By Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) –The world just had its hottest June ever for land and sea, with ocean temperatures setting new highs for the third month in a row. Combined…
https://gcaptain.com/world-has-hottest-june-on-record-as-ocean-temperatures-soar/
By Jack Wittels, Megan Durisin and Celia Bergin (Bloomberg) –Shallow waters on the Rhine are disrupting barge traffic and forcing up the cost of shipping, an early indicator the continent may need to brace for a redux of the seismic economic shock caused by last year’s drought. At Kaub, a key waypoint in western Germany, the river-measure is the lowest it’s been this time of year since 2017. Any barges planning on hauling diesel further into inland Europe are restricted to loading at about...
https://gcaptain.com/europes-parched-lifeline-flashes-trade-disruption-warning/
Europe’s warm and dry winter weather has decreased demand for LNG ships and a lack of snow could lower the spring water levels of major rivers like the Rhine and…
https://gcaptain.com/warm-winter-lng-demand-inland-shipping-europe/
By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) –The Rhine River’s water level at a key waypoint is set to decline in the coming days, curbing the amount of cargo that barges can carry. The…
https://gcaptain.com/rhine-water-level-set-to-fall-again-at-key-german-chokepoint/
According to the European Drought Observatory, 60% of the EU and the UK have experienced drought. Water reserves have dropped to unprecedented lows as a result of record-breaking heat waves linked to climate change that have dried up rivers across the continent.
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