TOC Asia 2019

‘ASEAN tiger’ shippers say they don’t need ULCVs on the intra-Asia trade

As the ASEAN “tiger economies” continue to reshape the world’s largest container trade, some domestic shippers are questioning the industry’s march towards ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs).
With 31m teu and 100 port pairs, intra-Asia accounts for roughly one-in-four boxes shipped worldwide every year.
And, according Drewry director Han Ning, the rise of the “ASEAN tiger” economies is deepening the region’s trade ties, particularly between South-east Asia and the Far East’s “older tigers” …

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JIT shipping could cut surging fuel costs and boost schedule reliability

Just-in-time (JIT) vessel arrivals could answer two of container shipping’s most pressing problems: surging fuel costs and poor schedule reliability.
Vessel tracking specialist MarineTraffic is working with the IMO’s Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to slash the time containerships spend idling outside ports by implementing a “JIT sailing” concept.
Argyris Stasinakis, MarineTraffic’s partner for business development, said the industry could achieve massive fuel savings and improved supply chain...

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Boxing clever can help reduce the growing cost of empty container repositioning

Costly empty container repositioning has been exacerbated by the US-China trade war, as more empty boxes than ever before head back to Asia.
However, artificial intelligence (AI) and the digitisation of one-way container leasing could help alleviate the shipping industry’s US$20bn empty box problem.
According to Jeremy Nixon (pictured above), chief executive of Ocean Network Express (ONE), the major impact from the trade spat so far has been to increase the existing …

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Shippers should be ‘careful what they wish for’ on block exemption regulations

Shippers should think twice about lobbying the EU to lift the block exemption regulation (BER) for liner shipping, it was claimed yesterday.
Wading into the recent war of words between shippers and carriers, speakers at the TOC Asia Container Supply Chain conference in Singapore suggested removing the BER would yield no benefit to cargo owners.
“There was a lot of heated discussions at the recent OECD meeting in Paris,” revealed Sea-Intelligence chief …

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IMO 2020 doomsday predictions are overblown, claim – ‘box lines will cope’

Doomsday predictions surrounding the IMO 2020 sulphur fuel cap and its impact on container lines are unfounded, according to Alphaliner chief analyst Tan Hua Joo.
Speaking yesterday at the TOC Asia Container Supply Chain conference in Singapore, Mr Tan poured scorn on projections of market chaos and carrier bankruptcies.
“This is the most important subject for the industry in the coming months,” admitted Mr Tan, “but there’s been some pretty catastrophic predictions being …

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Carriers making heavy weather of punctuality – but it’s not all their fault

Typhoons and other adverse weather events are playing havoc with carrier schedules, presenting a “major challenge” to the industry as it aims to recover from the record low levels of schedule reliability.
According to Jeremy Nixon, chief executive of Ocean Network Express (ONE), global warming has triggered more adverse and variable weather across key shipping lanes: a “remarkable increase” since 2016 when there were just nine major typhoons in Asia, compared …

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TOC Asia 2019: heavy weather blows liner schedules off course

TOC Asia 2019: heavy weather blows liner schedules off course

Singapore, 9 April 2019 –An escalating number of typhoons and adverse weather events is playing havoc with carrier schedules, leaving a “major challenge” for the industry to recover from the record-low levels in schedule reliability experienced in 2018.

According to Jeremy Nixon, chief executive of Ocean Network Express (ONE), global warming has triggered more adverse and variable weather across key shipping lanes, including a...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/04/09/toc-asia-2019-heavy-weather-blows-liner-schedules-off-course/