HAMBURG : Solid container shipping demand has driven up freight rates over the past two months, Hapag-Lloyd Chief Executive Mr. Rolf Habben Jansen said in a call with reporters on Wednesday. Attacks on vessels
COPENHAGEN : Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc has said that the coming months will be challenging for carriers and businesses alike, as the Red Sea situation stretches into the third quarter of 2024. Speaking at
SINGAPORE : Congestion at Singapore’s container port is at its worst since the Covid-19 pandemic, a sign of how prolonged vessel re-routing to avoid Red Sea attacks has disrupted global ocean shipping, with bottlenecks
WASHINGTON DC : Detention and demurrage (D&D) cases handled by the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in the United States have trebled since the pandemic and are set to reach historical highs by the end
HODEIDA : A merchant ship was damaged by a drone attack in the Red Sea near Yemen early Sunday morning, though no injuries were reported, according to a British maritime security agency. Vessels in
LONDON : Urgent action must be taken in the Red Sea to stop attacks on merchant shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, leading industry groups said on Wednesday, after the sinking of a second ship. Iran-aligned
The global commercial shipping industry could cut down its carbon emissions by 47 million tonnes per year by deploying artificial intelligence for sea navigation, a study by autonomous shipping startup Orca AI showed on
LONDON : Indian traders are reeling under the impact of rising ocean freight rates, triggered by the Red Sea crisis and congestion at several key ports in the global supply chain, causing container prices
SINGAPORE : Singapore’s port, already one of the busiest in the world, is facing a sustained period of congestion as vessel diversions to avoid the Red Sea push more container ships to the Asian
HAMBURG : Hapag-Lloyd told Reuters that the German shipping company does not expect the Suez Canal to be open again anytime soon, despite a recent ceasefire between Hamas & Israel. The world’s fifth largest