Quote Dear valued customer, As you may have picked up in the media, the national unions in Belgium are organizing regional and national strikes against the newly established Belgian government ‘Michel I’. The aim of this customer advisory is to inform you about the consequences (for port activity) of the [...]
OOCL presently circulates the following G6 news: Quote G6 Alliance announces Pacific Atlantic Service adjustment <Hong Kong> Members of the G6 Alliance today announced an adjustment to one of its Pacific Atlantic services in response to seasonal changes in market demand. The Pacific Atlantic 2 (PA2) service will temporarily stop calling European [...]
Hyundai informs as follows: Quote Transatlantic Trade Westbound, Sailing ex Hamburg 30.12.2014: Re : [AX1] Vessel cascade – Blank sailing wk 01/03 JFRX Discharging only 029E (phase-out) Please be informed that the Frankfurt Express will phase-out in Europe. 2. blank position wk01-wb / wk03-eb The position of the [...]
Drewry seems to be sceptical as to the development of the capacity and freight rates. Read here: Quote The Asia-North Europe trade faces a “huge” impact from the influx of more than 50 ultra-large container vessels over the next 15 months, matching that of the formation of new carrier alliances, [...]
Very surprising, but CMA is suspending their Port Congestion Surcharge for the US West Coast. We already asked ourselves, what the legal base was to charge customers now. Weeks ago customers shipped their cargo, were they warned at that stage that a possible congestion surcharge would be levied? Were customers aware of that [...]
We are always happy to present to you information about the situation in North America. OOCL is of great help: Quote Dear valued OOCL Customer, Rail Network A significant winter storm (first of the season) will be impacting Montana and the Northern Plains with very cold temperatures and snow. With [...]
We really appreciate any news that we get on the situation at the West Coast of the USA: Quote Further to our last update, and as has been widely reported, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union(ILWU) and Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) continue to negotiate a new contract for coverage of United States [...]
We published it already a few days ago as our own news, here now the NYK circular: Quote Announced Strike Actions in the Port of Antwerp 18th November 2014 Dear Valued Customer, NYK would like to inform you that in response to the latest coalition agreement as released by the Belgian Federal [...]
We had it already in our news, however, these seem to be the Transpac surcharges: Quote Transpacific Trade - Port Congestion Surcharge (PCS) Dear Valued Customer, Please be advised that after our review of the various factors contributing to the ongoing port congestion situation along the US West Coast, such [...]
Another attempt to get the rates up, this time from Europe to Asiao Quote Dear Valued Customer, Please be advised that NYK will implement 2014 Structural Revenue Recovery (SRR) program for Eastbound with effect from 1st December 2014(This SRR was originally intended to be effective from 6th November 2014 but differed to [...]
