International Shipping

For shippers, flexible operators key during slowdown and preparing for growth

Signs of a supply chain slowdown are appearing, and many shippers are scrambling to pivot operations that they were finally starting to normalize after two years of pandemic challenges.

Buddy Sexton, chief commercial officer at OptiX, an international logistics solutions provider with offices in Houston, Texas and Savannah, Georgia, likened the supply chain coming out of the pandemic to a clogged water line.

“The dramatic halt to global trade at the start of COVID-19 backed up an enormous volume...

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[Answer] Intermodal vs. Transloading Shipping

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Transloading and intermodal shipping are two ways to ship goods. Although they are comparable, knowing the differences between transloading and intermodal shipping can help you decide which shipping option will work best for you logistically and financially as reported by Inbound Logistics.

Shipping methods

The methods of transferring goods differ significantly between transloading and intermodal shipping. While transloading involves physically moving stock items...

https://mfame.guru/answer-intermodal-vs-transloading-shipping/

[FAQ] 8 Reasons To Use Smart Logistics

Everything and everyone in today’s highly connected world is connected to the internet.

Consumers are increasingly purchasing internationally as the number of smartphone users and internet subscribers rise. As a result, several e-commerce platforms have grown, and the Asia Pacific e-commerce sector is expected to reach US$360 billion in 2025 as reported by The Edge.

E-commerce experience

Despite the growth of e-commerce, research shows that 34% of Southeast Asian consumers are dissatisfied with...

https://mfame.guru/faq-8-reasons-to-use-smart-logistics/

Acuitive Solutions: Focusing core strengths on lesser-served niches

Thousands of intermodal containers of various colors are stacked at a port while storm clouds are in the background.

Throughout its successful, 20-year history, Acuitive Solutions has taken the road less traveled by not trying to be all things for all customers. Acuitive has instead focused on the lesser-served niches within the transportation industry, namely areas where there is high pain and low availability of solutions for international shippers. 

Acuitive has two core strengths that are common backbones to all its international logistics solutions. One is unit costing, both on the predictive side — what...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/acuitive-solutions-focusing-core-strengths-on-lesser-served-niches

EU’s Idea To Add Shipping in ETS Garners Opposition

  • Japan has officially opposed the EU’s plan to include the shipping sector in the emissions trading system (ETS).
  • It is calling on efforts to accelerate development of global measures for decarbonisation of international shipping.
  • The Japanese government is opposing the planned inclusion of shipping in the EU-ETS, which could undermine global efforts to address shipping emissions.
  • It said the EU’s plan could impact the shipping industry globally after the decision was taken under the limited...

https://mfame.guru/eus-idea-to-add-shipping-in-ets-garners-opposition/

Supply chain study: Shipping Australia supports the “strategic fleet”

Pictured: many ships of many different sizes, types, flags, owners, crews and many more. The international mixed fleet is a massively diverse fleet with massive in-built redundancy. It is the THE strategic fleet – far more so than any national single-point-of-failure fleet. Photo: Theregularjo via Unsplash.

Shipping Australia thoroughly endorsed the concept of a “strategic fleet” in our submission to the Productivity Commission’s Supply Chain Study.

Shipping Australia believes that the existing...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/supply-chain-study-shipping-australia-supports-the-strategic-fleet/

Shipping industry launches the Gulf of Guinea Declaration on the Suppression of Piracy

Pictured: a large containership underway; Photo Credit – Maritime Filming UK via Pixabay

The attacks on merchant ships in the Gulf of Guinea by Nigerian pirates must end. So far, 99 maritime companies, organisations and flag states, including BIMCO, have signed the Gulf of Guinea Declaration on Suppression of Piracy, which was launched earlier this week.

In 2020, 135 crew were kidnapped from their ships globally, with the Gulf of Guinea accounting for over 95% of the crew numbers kidnapped. This...

https://www.shippingaustralia.com.au/shipping-industry-launches-the-gulf-of-guinea-declaration-on-the-suppression-of-piracy/

E-commerce growth furthers interest in direct-from-origin shipping options

In recent years, consumers have consistently put pressure on companies to amp up their online options. E-commerce sales have steadily grown year-over-year for the last couple of decades. E-commerce’s share of total retail sales has historically climbed about 1% each year. That changed in 2020. 

Americans’ previously slow-growing fervor for online shopping was shifted into high gear when the coronavirus pandemic started making its way across the nation in March 2020. According to U.S. Census...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/e-commerce-growth-furthers-interest-in-direct-from-origin-shipping-options

SAL CEO to speak on how COVID-19 has affected international shipping

Rod Nairn AM, Shipping Australia’s CEO, will speak on 18 November 2020 on the topic of “Charting the unknown – how COVID-19 has impacted international shipping”.

Mr Nairn will be speaking between 17:00 to 18:00 at the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission AMTAC Annual Address...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/sal-ceo-to-speak-on-how-covid-19-has-affected-international-shipping/

Shipping is a vital industry and a responsible global citizen

Pictured: a large containership underway; Photo Credit – Maritime Filming UK from Pixabay

International shipping has been a major driver of sustained economic growth over the last sixty to seventy years. The ever-increasing efficiency of international shipping has helped to boost trade which has, in turn, brought prosperity to nations and has lifted literally billions of people out of dreadful poverty.

Ever-increasing efficiency and value for money

From time-to-time some commentators make wrongful...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/shipping-is-a-vital-industry-and-a-responsible-global-citizen/

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