Houston, we have a problem!! Ask the WH to organize a fast acting Task Force and Congress to find someone foreign to blame: [image] Congress discusses forcing liners to accept US export container bookings -... American politicians are discussing taking drastic action to force global lin…

The blame game 2.0: [image] Viewpoint: ‘Disruption indicator’ blames US ports for 80% of global inefficiency Despite the victory of saving Christmas, the congestion problems at the nation’s largest ports have not improved.

The FBX Index for Container trade doesn’t give much hope for help to alleviate the congestion in the near future: https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/fbx-index-what-will-be-the-new-reality/

Three solutions: Modernize and automate US ports (longshoremen STFU); More small ships going to small underutilized US ports; Become more self-reliant with more domestically produced quality long lasting goods, and less dependent upon cheap foreign goods with short lifespans. (E.g., Make refriger…

Maybe using gas carriers as container carriers could help? No, not conventional LNG Carriers but one built to carry liquified gasses in ISO containers: [image] Gerry Wang finds container work for novel gas carrier - Splash247 MPPs, dry bulk carriers – even product tankers have been prop…

With all due respect to the ship’s owner, he may think it is a gas carrier, but that is a container ship. What the owner uses it for is up to them, but it is set up to carry 40ft boxes. Those boxes could be standard 40ft dry containers, tanker containers, flat racks, and probably a mix of 20 footers…

[image] Boxport congestion worsening rapidly - Splash247 Global container port congestion is rapidly worsening despite headlines of easing traffic at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Logistics giant Kuehne+Nagel’s digital platform, seaexplorer, has developed what it terms as…

[image] Port congestion contagion spreads - Splash247 The global nature of the container port congestion saga, which has dogged supply chains during the pandemic, is illustrated clearly today with data from consultancy eeSea. The Danish firm has sent Splash a map (see below) charting the…

Container freight costs are dropping: [image] Drewry’s composite global spot box index ducks below $9,000 per feu for the... Drewry’s World Container Index, a global average of spot freight rates, dipped below the $9,000 per feu level today for the first time since July. However, analyst…

More Mega Container Vessels available to carry containers between hub ports may help: [image] Evergreen in for three more 24,000 teu ships at Hudong-Zhonghua - Splash247 Evergreen Marine has returned to CSSC-affiliated Hudong-Zhonghua with a new shipbuilding contract for the construction…

The respite from the CNY effect is over. Now for the next Covid effect: [image] European and American terminals brace for whiplash effect from latest China... Terminals in Europe and North America have been told to brace for another whiplash effect from delayed shipments out of southern …

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