Global chokepoints and domestic corridors — what is moving, and where we can name it, what it costs.
Liners are trying to halt a three-month rate slide on the trade lane, but will have their hands full amid China's holiday export slowdown and significant capacity being injected as an increasing number of services revert to Suez transits.
The maritime picture in the Strait of Hormuz is becoming harder to verify, with another delayed report of a vessel strike raising questions over how much of the fighting is...
The Panama Canal has raised the number of daily transit slots for the largest container vessels.
Spot rates have eased as expected in the approach to China’s Golden Week, but increasing congestion and accelerated returns to Suez transits make for a complex path ahead
Cargo airlines operating into Mumbai appear caught up in a double-whammy: capacity restrictions at the old airport in Mumbai City, due to airside infrastructure upgrades; and unexpected teething troubles at the new hub, Navi Mumbai International (NMIA). Both airports at India’s commercial hub are managed by Adani Group, which, with dedicated freighter slots at Mumbai suspended until June next year, has been pushing airlines and other stakeholders to shift cargo operations ...
While the port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach has been processing record volumes through the summer, tonnages have slumped at the port of Oakland and the Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) ports of Seattle and Tacoma. And for cargo owners, this means fewer options to navigate bottlenecks and disruption. The port of Long Beach clocked up a new record for August throughput, with a 2% year-on-year gain in its teu count, ...
The Panama Canal will increase daily transit capacity and allow deeper drafts for Neopanamax vessels as water conditions improve across the Canal watershed. From 15 October 2026, the Canal will offer 10 daily transit slots through the Neopanamax locks. This will bring total capacity across the Neopanamax and Panamax locks to 33 transits per day. […]
Longer-term détente on penalties targeting Chinese-linked ships could be hammered out by January according to trade expert
The Panama Canal is beginning to loosen restrictions after months of tightening, raising both allowable draft and daily transit capacity as rainfall improves the outlook for Gatun Lake. From October 15, the canal will increase neopanamax transits to 10 a day, taking combined neopanamax and panamax capacity to 33 daily slots. The maximum authorised draft …
Middle East oil exports are back to about 94% of their pre-war level, but the recovery was built largely around the Strait of Hormuz, not through it. Iran is losing leverage faster than it is losing control.
The Port Commission of the Port of Houston Authority convened its regular monthly meeting, advancing a range of initiatives spanning export development, workforce education, maritime infrastructure and Ship Channel planning. Chairman Ric Campo highlighted the recent launch of Export Houston, a three-part programme developed in partnership with the Greater Houston Partnership to help local businesses […]
In some small relief to shipping and supply chains the Panama Canal is to increase draughts and daily transits following increased rainfall.
Stress on the global shipping systems has been building since the summer, thanks to earlier peak seasons on Asia trades to North America, Latin America and Europe.
Iran is continuing to assert that it controls the Strait of Hormuz and has issued a new warning to the charters of vessels to follow its restrictions....
The Panama Canal Authority is easing some of the restrictions it began imposing over the summer to manage water levels in anticipation of a prolonged...
The Panama Canal is easing restrictions on vessel draft and daily transits after improved rainfall and water-saving measures helped stabilize conditions in the waterway’s drought-sensitive watershed. The Panama Canal Authority said the...
(Bloomberg) — Two countries signaled interest in sending ships to counter Houthi strikes in the Red Sea, top European Union diplomat Kaja Kallas said. Kallas has been pressing countries to...
Two major liners are returning India-Savannah services to the Suez Canal, cutting transit times by up to 14 days.
European imports of liquefied natural gas are rising ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter, as prolonged disruptions to flows through the Strait of Hormuz threaten to intensify global competition for the fuel.
Eight U.S. Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile struck a vessel they were operating aboard in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month, according to a previously unreported...
Gemini Cooperation partners Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will next month reroute their Asia-Med Loop 1 to transit the Suez Canal and Red Sea in both directions. Known as AE12 by Maersk and SE1 by Hapag-Lloyd, the string will become the fourth mainline service the Gemini partners have returned to Suez routings, following the Asia-North Europe Loop4 (AE5 and NE4), Asia-Med Loop 2 (AE11 and SE2), and the India-Europe Loop (ME2 and IEX), ...
A surge in vessel delays, driven by typhoons and port disruption in Asia, has left 8.5% of the global container fleet effectively unavailable. New analysis from Sea-Intelligence suggests this equates to some 3m teu of vessel capacity – a fleet roughly equivalent in size to that of the world’s fifth-largest carrier. Schedule reliability fell to just below 50% in August, following an already sharp deterioration in July. Sea-Intelligence said reliability had fallen 12.7% ...
Hapag-Lloyd has confirmed the first westbound and eastbound sailings of the Gemini Cooperation’s SE1 service through the Red Sea and Suez Canal. The container ship Umm Qarn will operate both voyages. Direction Vessel Voyage Last call before Suez Departure Westbound Umm Qarn 642W Tanjung Pelepas 27 October 2026 Eastbound Umm Qarn 649E Algeciras 5 December […]
Container shipping activity through the Suez Canal is increasing, but readers are not yet convinced that the route has returned to normal. Recent weeks have brought a series of moves towards the Red Sea and Suez route. Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk are returning four Gemini Cooperation services, while MSC has partially restored Suez transits on its […]
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