Understanding the Disparity Between the Different Container Indexes

There’s no shortage of indexes telling you how much it costs to ship a container load from A to B. Unfortunately, each one gives you a different answer. The disparity between the different indexes grew...

Global Supply Chains Frail With Ships Getting Bigger

Severely disruptive events often expose previously unseen or underappreciated vulnerabilities. As a result, trend towards increasingly mammoth vessels is making global supply chains even more fragile, writes Jarek Klimczak for Seatrade Maritime News. When national...

How Ports Ameliorate Shipping’s Zero-carbon Transition

A number of ports are collaborating with multiple stakeholders to help de-risk projects to help meet 2050 ambitions, reports Lloyd's Register. Meeting IMO 2050 targets Shipping produces about 2.9% of the world’s man-made emissions of carbon...

Dual-Fuel LNG Carrier Diamond Gas Victoria Delivered

  new LNG carrier Diamond Gas Victoria delivered Diamond Gas Victoria is equipped with a state-of-the-art WinGD-made dual-fuel slow-speed diesel engine The new dual-fuel LNG Carrier Diamond Gas Victoria, which will be will transporting LNG from British Columbia for...

Meet the ‘Biodegraders’ That Take Over Plastic!

A new fungus that can tackle plastic waste has been discovered, the BBC reported. Fungus 'eating' plastic The fungus, discovered by accident by Dr Samantha Jenkins, was being sealed in a plastic sponge, only for it...

BIMCO Covid 19 Weekly Report

The BIMCO Maritime Information department informs members on a weekly basis, updates about the COVID-19 in relation to implementation measures imposed by governments for sea transport including for crew change as well as from...

Emergence of Immune Escape COVID Strain is Certain, Say UK Scientists

  Scientists write that because eradication of the virus is “unlikely”, they “have great confidence” that variants will continue to emerge. It is “almost certain” that there will be “a gradual or punctuated accumulation...

$32,000 Container Move From China To LA

shipping rates have begun reaching record highs for months $32,000 container move from China to LA Container rates have hit the stratosphere this year. It's a function of too many shipments says an article...

[Watch] NYK Takes Delivery of New Dual-fuel LNG Carrier

Japan's NYK Line, as part of Diamond LNG Shipping 6 consortium, took delivery of the Diamond Gas Victoria LNG gas carrier, says a press release published on their website. Time charter contract The LNG carrier will...

Air Cargo Peak To Get Intense

Air cargo peak looms, Flexport warns – or here already and getting intense a lot of shippers are waiting to replenish their inventories, consumers have saved $3trn in the US alone, and they...