Panama Canal Panama Canal’s overall transit trends are down by 42% year-on-year in December, but container shipping is seeing a rise in transits as other vessel types divert from the waterway. In its latest report on the Panama Canal this week, Drewry Shipping Consultants reports that December 2023 transits fell by 25% to 746 transits […]

Truckparkings Rotterdam Exploitatie (TRE) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority opened the first charging station for electric trucks in the Dutch port. The new station is located at the Bodaanweg truck park in Waalhaven. TRE has worked with the Port of Rotterdam Authority to install the first five charging points in the truck park, which […]

Suez Canal Sea-Intelligence reports that the Red Sea crisis has been going on for a month now, and the current service networks are clearly in flux, with a lot of uncertainty, especially on the services going from Asia to Europe. Danish analysts noted, “Using our Trade Capacity Outlook report, we can compare the present changes […]

Port of Long Beach in California, US The conclusion of 2023 saw the Port of Long Beach (POLB) handle 8,018,668 TEUs, marking a 12.2% decrease from the previous year, but surpassing pre-pandemic levels reported in 2019. Import volumes at the Californian port declined by 12.7% to 3,804,356 TEUs, while exports experienced a 9.4% drop to […]

In an unfortunate incident on 17 January, ZIM’s office in Piraeus, Greece, fell victim to a bomb planted by pro-Palestinian activists. The explosive event occurred during the early hours of 17 January, resulting in minor structural damage to the office building of the shipping company. Fortunately, no injuries were reported as a result of the […]

Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) Photo: APM Terminals Verifiable costs for transiting the African Cape rather than the Suez Canal are around US$1,000 per box according to Xeneta chief analyst Peter Sand, who was responding to questions on how western bombing had changed the maritime supply chain seascape. Speaking after coalition forces bombed targets in […]

Maersk reefers at APM Terminals Aarhus / Source: APM Terminals Maersk has unveiled new peak season surcharges worldwide, which are going to take effect in January and February. The Danish ocean carrier is introducing a Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) as per the below table with the effective date of 8 January, excluding Vietnam and Taiwan. The […]

Source: LSS-SAPU The MV Lila Norfolk, a Liberian-flagged cargo ship, was hijacked in the Arabian Sea, off the Somalia coast, on 4 January. Reports said the bulk carrier had about 15 Indian crew members on board. Indian Navy immediately despatched a frigate and an aircraft in response to a distress call from the ship. “Responding […]

Source: International Maritime Organisation (IMO) The number of incidents of piracy and armed robbery in ships in Asian waters reached 100 this year (until 27 December), up from 84 in the entire last year and a total of 82 in 2021, according to data available with the ReCAAP information sharing centre (ISC), a regional inter-governmental […]