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Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) is looking to capture more Vietnamese export traffic through a new road-air corridor that takes cargo from Hanoi through mainland China before connecting with flights from Hong Kong. But while Hacis, the value-added logistics arm of Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (Hactl), has comp…
Airlines and forwarders cannot be expected to identify undeclared batteries in ecommerce parcels if sellers fail to pass on accurate product information, an ecommerce specialist has warned following IATA’s call for dangerous goods checks to move further upstream. In a new white paper, IATA said 81% of dangerous goods …
Global container shipping reliability is at its lowest level for four years, as the congestion in Asia continues to disrupt liner operations. According to Sea-Intelligence, schedule reliability fell by 5.9 percentage points month on month in August, to 49.9%, marking the second consecutive monthly decline. The analyst…
Container freight rates on the India-Middle East trade have continued to climb, as ports in the conflict-affected region grapple with operational challenges. According to data from market sources, spot rates from India to the Middle East have spiked by 25%, to 40%, since the last week of August, as vessel capacity pre…
Unrelenting congestion and rising bunker prices have pushed intra-Asia rates up for a month. Drewry's Intra-Asia Container Index climbed for a fourth straight week, with typhoon and geopolitical disruptions combining with pre-Golden Week (1 October) demand to drive up spot rates across key routes. On 17 September, int…
Only nine commodity carriers passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, eight of them exiting the waterway, Reuters reported in its now regular update on tanker numbers in the strait. The Thursday total is a further decline on already depressed numbers that have now gone from double to single digits, with the 10…
Capacity for ship-to-ship transfers of crude oil off the coast of Oman has reached its limits after Saudi Arabia diverted its flows from the port of Yanbu amid Houthi attacks, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed trading sources and analysts. The report said Saudi Arabia has sold some 60 million barrels of crude, to b…
Oil is increasingly getting more expensive before it even reaches a refinery. Freight now accounts for roughly a fifth of the cost of a crude cargo, turning the tanker market into a major driver of the price buyers pay. At the center of the squeeze is the very large crude carrier, or VLCC, the supertanker that can mov…
Saudi Arabia’s workaround for the Strait of Hormuz now carries a war-risk insurance bill nearly as expensive as sending tankers through Hormuz itself. Quoted premiums for Saudi-linked tankers calling at the Red Sea port of Yanbu have tripled to around 3% of a vessel’s value from less than 1% in early July, according t…
Russia has begun commercial crude exports from Rosneft’s Vostok Oil project, putting barrels on the water from its new Arctic terminal after years of sanctions, investor exits, and construction delays. Three ice-class tankers loaded about 250,000 metric tons of crude from the Bukhta Sever terminal on the Taimyr Penins…
Saudi Arabia has sold almost 100 million barrels of crude to Asian buyers via the Strait of Hormuz since the middle of last week, when it pivoted to the chokepoint it wanted to avoid with the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea. With the pipeline out of service, the Kingdom has sold 100 million barrels of crude, which i…
Some forwarders on Europe-SubSaharan Africa trades are continuing to report strong momentum, their feelings backed by data, as Container Trades Statistics (CTS) continues to report healthy volumes in both directions. CTS’s July data (it reports two months in arrears) shows volumes climbed 2.3% compared with 2025 figur…
China's Jiangyin and Nanjing have become the latest Yangtze River ports to demonstrate ocean-going ambitions. Yesterday, Cosco Shipping Specialised Carriers, the Cosco group's multi-purpose shipping arm, launched a container shipping service from Jiangyin to Mexico's Manzanillo. More than 500 containers, loaded with m…
Indian container trade stakeholders at JNPA (Nhava Sheva Port) are reporting a growing shortage of empty boxes for exports, as widespread vessel schedule disruption weighs on equipment shipping cycles. The shortage of empties is especially acute for French liner CMA CGM, according to market updates, but is affecting m…
Nearly three months after IATA introduced new rules governing Direct Air Waybills (DAWBs), there remains considerable confusion among airlines and freight forwarders over what has actually changed – and who is now liable when something goes wrong. Some forwarders appear unaware of the potential implications, while oth…
Hapag-Lloyd has cut contracted capacity allocations under its Quality Freight Product (QFP) service by as much as 40%, according to one forwarder, raising questions over the flexibility of the carrier’s guaranteed-capacity offering amid the disruption in Asia. QFP, launched in 2021, is a contractual service designed t…
The Global Coalition of Fresh Produce (GCFP), an alliance of produce shippers, wants to raise resilience and transparency in logistics through a charter of best practices, to be tabled next month. Its members are worried about reliability issues that pose an existential threat to their business. According to the GCFP,…
Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen is understood to have arrived in Israel this week for a series of crucial meetings to convince the government to give the greenlight for its takeover of Zim. “The CEO of the German company Hapag-Lloyd, Rolf Haven Janssen, will arrive in Israel tomorrow, Calcalist has learned. The pur…
The U.S. government is ready to support Argentina’s key LNG project by lending up to $6 billion to the project led by Argentina’s energy group YPF in partnership with Italy’s Eni and Emirati energy firm XRG. As part of a newly launched Andes-Atlantic Corridor, a joint U.S-Argentinian initiative to strengthen and moder…
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Look: Bloomberg's sources name UPS as the carrier of the F-35 parts China reportedly holds, while The Nightly's sources name Ceva Logistics. Lockheed calls the parts low risk, but the harder problem for logistics is how controlled cargo left its route at all. On Wednesday, as Xi Jinping landed near Washington for a st…
Crude oil prices took a dip today amid reports that there was willingness for peace in the Middle East on both sides of the conflict. The dip partially offset gains made earlier in the week, keeping oil benchmarks elevated. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $102.20 per barrel, and West Texas Intermedi…
Ship-to-ship transfers and pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, where available, have become the primary export route for most Middle Eastern oil. Oil producers in the region have demonstrated what some see as remarkable adaptability to the new circumstances. In fact, it is a matter of survival. And it comes at a…
Uzbekistan is intent on establishing logistics lily pads on the shores of the Caspian and Black Seas to advance Tashkent’s Middle Corridor trade agenda. A statement published by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s office on September 21 revealed that Uzbek and Georgian officials have already signed an agreement to establis…
The launch of a full-blown trade war between the US and Canada, coupled with recent transatlantic talks between Canada and the EU, as well as the UK, is beginning to fundamentally change the country's freight flows. The US 50% tariffs on Canadian goods and the targeted response on US imports has provoked Canadian impo…
Forwarders are urging those engaged in trade between Europe and Latin America to “book earlier”, amid issues of availability and port congestion on both sides of the tradelane – albeit with little of this playing out in the present shape of rates. According to Container Trades Statistics (CTS), after a difficult start…
Only three commodity vessels moved through the Strait of Hormuz in the past day, preliminary tanker-tracking data by Kpler showed on Wednesday, as the oil market weighs the potential resumption of U.S.-Iran talks against continued disruptions in the Middle East. The three commodity vessels, which included one Panamax …
Uber Freight is stepping up investment in its European 4PL business, despite acknowledging that shippers increasingly care less about whether their logistics provider is labelled a 3PL or 4PL. The company yesterday announced plans to expand its European fourth-party logistics operation, investing in technology, operat…
The world’s largest container shipping lines are becoming less-reliant on chartered vessels – most of the top 10 carriers reducing their exposure significantly since the Covid-era freight boom. New analysis by Alphaliner shows the proportion of chartered capacity in the fleets of most major carriers has fallen since 2…
While global container shipping is entering its traditional fourth-quarter off-season, freight rates on the transpacific trade could stay high, according to Yang Ming chiefs. Yesterday, during an online investor conference, the Taiwanese shipping line executives pointed to a combination of Panama Canal constraints, li…