Carl Bentzel, a commissioner at the Federal Maritime Commission in Washington DC, has published a 28-page report following his year-long investigation into the stranglehold Chinese companies have in the manufacturing [...]
SHANGHAI, March 29 (Reuters) – Danish shipper Maersk said the Shanghai lockdown will severely hurt trucking services and increase transport costs, as China’s intensifying efforts to fight the spread of COVID-19 further rattles global supply chains. The Chinese coastal city, home [...]
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned that global economic growth will decrease to 2.6% from 3.6% for 2022 due to the Ukraine war. Additionally, the United [...]
The Russia-Ukraine war is the kind of geopolitics-altering event that should shake up trade flows for years to come, promising big repercussions for shipping shares. A month into the conflict, [...]
A new Covid-19 outbreak in Shanghai has given rise to concerns that the world’s busiest container port may see growing vessel queues. On 21 March, just as the Chinese government lifted [...]
Georgios Plevrakis from ABS runs the numbers on what owners will have to pays Brussels per ship type once new European emissions legislation kicks in. If, as expected, the European [...]
The 11,850 TEU container vessel Ever Forward has run aground in the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, US bringing back memories of Ever Given's accident in the Suez Canal, which caused global [...]
We are excited to announce that our logistics network just expanded with a new member in: Dhaka - Bangladesh We want to welcome our newest member to the Alfa Logistics [...]
We are excited to announce that our logistics network just expanded with a new member in: Amsterdam - Netherlands We want to welcome our newest member to the Alfa Logistics [...]
The Biden Administration and Department of Transportation announce Tuesday the launch of a new data sharing initiative aimed at helping speed up delivery times in the supply chain, reduce delays, [...]
