Global Logistics

Higher Shipping Costs Are Here to Stay, Sparking Price Increases

April 12, 2021

Stubbornly high shipping expenses for businesses are getting sealed into contracts for the next 12 months, forcing companies to pass the extra costs on to consumers.

Commodity Shipping Rates Are Surging Amid Uneven Recovery

April 8, 2021

Bloomberg

For a glimpse of how quickly and unevenly economies are recovering from the pandemic, look no further than the market for shipping raw materials.

End of Suez Snarl Marks Beginning of New Stress on Global Trade

March 31, 2021

Bloomberg

The Ever Given leaves in its wake several weeks or months of disruptions across a world economy where the pandemic revealed both the sturdy backbone of global trade and an Achilles’ heel.

The Suez Crisis Is Over. Now Time to Add Up the Damages.

March 30, 2021

Bloomberg

The Suez Canal may be open again, but the battle over damages from the waterway’s longest closure in almost half a century is just beginning.

Ships Get Moving Through Suez as Giant Ever Given Is Freed

March 29, 2021

Bloomberg

Ships started moving again through the Suez Canal on Monday after the giant container ship that lay stranded across the critical waterway for a week was finally tugged free.

Suez Mess Adds to Global Economic, Supply-Chain Stress

March 29, 2021

Bloomberg

The backlog is one more strain for global supply chains already stretched by the pandemic.

Blocked Suez Forces Ships to Look at Long Trip Around Africa

March 25, 2021

Bloomberg

A massive container ship blocking the Suez Canal showed no signs of budging for a third day, forcing container carriers and other vessels to weigh costly and time-consuming voyages around Africa that threaten to destabilize the already fragile underpinnings of global trade.

What’s Backed Up at the Suez Canal? Live Animals, Oil and Food

March 25, 2021

Bloomberg

Crews are still struggling to remove Ever Given, a stranded container ship longer than the Eiffel Tower, and a look at the type of cargoes waiting to pass show the shipping delays will affect a range of industries.

In Race for Speed, Massive Cargo Ships Are Outrun by Nimble Vessels

March 25, 2021

Bloomberg

Running full steam has revealed how temperamental the backbone of the global trading system is when stretched.

Fight Between Commodities Giants and Shippers Leaves Seafarers Stuck

March 23, 2021

Bloomberg

A standoff between commodities giants and shipping companies is prolonging the labor crisis at sea, with an estimated 200,000 seafarers still stuck on their vessels beyond the expiration of their contracts and past the requirements of globally accepted safety standards.

Global Logistics

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