Global chokepoints and domestic corridors — what is moving, and where we can name it, what it costs.
Nippon Express has expanded its NX Ocean Fast Track service with a new option offering delivery from the Port of Los Angeles to major destinations across the United States within five days. The new service, called US 5-Day Cross, covers shipments from Tokyo, Shanghai and Haiphong via Los Angeles to destinations across the US. It […]
The issue of fatigue among tug operators at the Panama Canal is again attracting attention after the captain of a tugboat is said to have died due to...
Multiple sources are confirming that two more tankers reported strikes, bringing the total to six ships in one week and 110 incidents directly related...
Another tanker has been struck in the Strait of Hormuz, bringing the number of vessels reported hit in the strategic waterway since Sunday to at least six. UK Maritime Trade...
Global shipping is not running short of ships. The bigger problem is that a growing share of them are getting caught in congestion. Roughly 12% of global container ship capacity...
Saudi Arabia is planning an offensive against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen, with options being considered including a coastal push to secure the Red Sea shipping route or an assault on multiple fronts, regional and Western officials told Reuters.
Executives at three major container lines say Asia port congestion removed significant functional capacity from the trans-Pacific trade in September, raising expectations that the earlier-than-anticipated peak season now has a longer tail.
MSC will extend its Piracy Risk Surcharge and Suez Canal Surcharge to additional destinations across the Mediterranean and North Africa. The carrier attributed the move to piracy risks around the Arabian Peninsula, which continue to affect vessel operations and transit routes. The following charges will apply from the proforma date of 19 October 2026 until […]
US officials in Washington have briefed the press that a third US Carrier Strike Group, led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), is on its way to t...
Colombo’s increasing popularity as a transhipment hub is heaping cost pressure onto forwarders and shippers on the India-US tradelane, the Sri Lankan gateway’s newfound revenue stream having provoked a worsening tide of congestion. Recognising India is facing its own congestion issues, particularly at Mundra and Nhava Sheva, CH Robinson said Colombo’s status as a transhipment hot-spot was elevating the risks of rolled cargo. “When mainline services omit Colombo to recover schedules, South ...
The beginning of China’s Golden Week national holiday yesterday appears to have coincided with a plateauing of the strong pricing peak that persisted on the transpacific trades throughout September. “Spot rates from Far East to the US ticked up again on 1 October, but we can say with a level of confidence that the market has reached its post-Hormuz crisis peak in 2026,” said Xeneta chief analyst Peter Sand. The data signals ...
The tanker captain summoned his years of experience when he saw the blast in front of him. He veered his 300-meter-long ship around the vessel ahead and could see a fire had started. He called the US Navy to tell them of the attack.
Kuwait Oil Tanker Company has suffered its second VLCC strike in four days, while a separate projectile attack at Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu port briefly disrupted loading operations, piling fresh security pressure on two of the Middle East’s key oil export routes. Maritime security firm Vanguard Tech identified the latest Hormuz casualty as the Kuwait-flagged Kazimah …
For an industry that has spent much of the 2020s making extraordinary money from things going wrong, this week brought an unfamiliar threat: things starting to go right. Some of shipping’s most important pressure points showed signs of easing. At the Panama Canal, for instance, improving rainfall allowed the authorities to announce this week an …
Hormuz no longer works as a single waterway where transit, identity, custody and finance travel together in one hull. Control has shifted from the waterway to the network built around it.
Amidst severe regional port congestion, container vessel schedule reliability in Asia dropped to 32.3% in August 2026, with the average delay for late vessel arrivals rising to 7.28 days. Figure 1 shows the country‑level vessel arrival schedule reliability for both July and August 2026, along with the Y/Y changes in each month. For nearly all […]
The attack on 1 October follows strikes on four tankers in 24 hours on 28 -29 September
Observers have noted that a large vessel backlog appears to be building in the Baltic and the Gulf of Finland as vessels wait to reach Russian ports....
A tanker has been struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the latest in a string of attacks that have emerged over the past several days...
The Trump administration expanded its economic campaign against Iran on Thursday, targeting the country’s rail system, major industrial companies and a Russia-linked shadow banking network that U.S. officials say has...
Strait of Hormuz transit data for the month of September reveals how the oil and container markets are tactically adjusting to the U.S./Israel war on Iran.
October will see almost all global ocean carriers make a tentative return to Suez transits on Asia-Europe sailings, after revised pro forma shipping schedules show the Premier Alliance is set to send one of its vessels on the route through the Red Sea and Egyptian waterway.
The expansion of the US manufacturing sector could drive up demand for project cargo logistics, including heavy-haul trucking and inland waterway transport.
Israeli authority overseeing state’s special share in Zim has stopped processing the merger request, Hapag-Lloyd intends to resubmit revised terms.
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