Current market conditions are caused by a huge surge in the demand for container transport. On the supply side, box port congestion and poor container port performance are reducing the supply of shipping. The costs to operate a ship are … [Read more...]
Container ports and landside must solve their problems to resolve freight crisis
New analysis from internationally respected maritime analysts, Sea Intelligence, has conclusively demonstrated that the big, un-tackled problems in the ongoing freight crisis can be found at ports and on the landside. Bottleneck problems in … [Read more...]
Congestion is causing vessel delays that are equal to removing ALL ultra-large container ships from the market
Unprecedented congestion and the resulting delays to vessels have the effect of removing vast amounts of capacity from the world container shipping fleet, internationally respected maritime analyst company Sea-Intelligence has indicated. Using … [Read more...]
Dreadful performance of Australia’s container ports is revealed
Australia's container ports are near-completely failing Australian exporters, importers, shippers, shipping lines and society in general because they have terrible on-the-job performance. That's the only conclusion that can be drawn from a … [Read more...]