A perfect storm in global trade is creating a shipping container capacity crunch, fueling a sudden and surprise spike in ocean freight rates. The beginning of peak shipping season, coupled with the ...

The container shipping market has become used to cyclicality over the decades, and it experienced an unprecedented peak in 2021 and 2022 with record rates and profits for liners. But with consumers ...

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While drama in the container shipping sector has calmed a bit, container carriers still wrestle with unexpected drops in demand. Peter Sand, Xeneta, discusses vessel capacity moves and their likely ...

In recent years, market analysts have considerably widened the parameters they track to assess growth in countries, regions, and globally as far as container shipping goes. One often-overlooked ...

The Georgia-based port has approved several projects that will add more container units this year. The Georgia Ports Authority has approved capital improvement projects that will expand shipping ...

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An ocean container capacity crunch has hit global trade just as peak shipping season starts, with freight spot rates up some 30% over the past few weeks and heading higher. Bad weather, longer ocean ...