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• Employees of Maersk's tugboat company strike, affecting the operation of many ports in Australia

  Time: 2022-11-16 | Publisher: Kevin

  

  Maersk yesterday issued a stop work notice to 582 employees of its Australian tugboat company Svitzer, prohibiting its tugboat crew from working. Svitzer is the largest tugboat operator in Australia, with nearly 100 tugboats deployed in various waters.The lockout will begin at 12:00 a.m. EDT on November 18 and will continue inde...
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• The freight rate decline of several routes has expanded! Shipping companies rapidly increase the number of blank sailing

  Time: 2022-11-15 | Publisher: Kevin

  

  At present, with the continued weakness of shipping demand, freight rates continue to test towards the bottom. A number of routes fell significantly, among which the European route and the East Coast route of the United States dropped the most.According to the latest data of the latest Shanghai export container comprehensive frei...
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• The cargo volume of LB Port accelerated to decline in October, and the trans Pacific blank sailing increased rapidly

  Time: 2022-11-14 | Publisher: Kevin

  

  The declining trend of global freight demand remains unchanged. It is understood that the freight volume of LB Port in the United States accelerated to decline in October, mainly due to the reduction of consumer demand and the transfer of goods to the ports on the east coast of the United States.From last year to the beginning ...
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• The volume of goods from China declined, and the import volume of the West Coast of the United States continued to decline

  Time: 2022-11-11 | Publisher: Kevin

  

  The global freight demand is still declining, especially the volume of goods from China, which has declined significantly. The data of Descartes Systems in Canada pointed out that: as the sudden decrease in cargo volume continued to affect the West Coast of the United States, the volume of container imports in the United State...
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• The Belgian trade union held a strike, affecting all modes of transportation, and the port of Antwerp was suspended

  Time: 2022-11-10 | Publisher: Kevin

  

  With the frequent strikes in Britain, Antwerp, Belgium's largest port, also fell into a strike crisis. The port workers began to strike at Antwerp Port at local time.Inchcape Shipping Services pointed out that Belgian trade unions are holding strikes, while socialist trade unions are also calling a general strike, and Chri...
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• Port congestion in major regions has gradually eased, but the situation of ports in East America is still not optimistic

  Time: 2022-11-09 | Publisher: Kevin

  

  Compared with the initial stage of the epidemic, the congestion of major ports in the world has been significantly alleviated. However, the time when ships arrived at the port was still higher than that before the epidemic.Recently, Sea Intelligence investigated the arrival of ships in the five most important container transport regi...
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• The air transport market continues to weaken and prices continue to decline

  Time: 2022-11-08 | Publisher: Kevin

  

  With the slowdown of the global economy, the demand of the maritime market has dropped sharply, which has led to a precipitous drop in freight rates. This is also true in the air cargo market.Although the so-called peak freight season has entered, there seems to be no sign of the existence of the peak season this year. Because demand ...
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• The transport capacity of the shipping market continues to decrease, and nearly 284 container ships are idle around the world

  Time: 2022-11-07 | Publisher: Kevin

  

  Nowadays, the global shipping market is not as crazy as before the epidemic. In the face of falling container freight rates, the idle container capacity has exceeded 1 million TEU.According to Alphaliner data, as of October 24, the number of idle container ships in the world had reached 284, accounting for 4.6% of the global fleet...
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