On Monday July 21st, Belgium is celebrating a public holiday! All container terminals will be closed so that no pick up or drop off of containers will be possible!

This is what we got from Hanjin:   Raise Awareness of Possible Port Congestion From / to /via Port Said/ Egypt on Asia – Europe Trade Please kindly note that heavy port congestion in Port Said / Egypt (EGPSD) affects feeder and trunk vessel utilization on our operating partners’ vessels. This may result in long-staying shipments for [...]

Please find here below some important questions and answers on the US West Coast Labor Negotiatons: Why is there concern about possible disruption at U.S. West Coast ports? Negotiations for new longshore labor agreements on the West Coast, indeed at ports generally, are when the risk of disruption is at its highest. West Coast longshoremen [...]

Please note the latest circular of Hapag Lloyd: While suspending their peak season surcharge as of August 4th, Hapag announces a low water suracharge for Canada as per below: In line with our pre advice announced on April 11, 2014 we would like to inform you that with effect from July 28, 2014 Hapag-Lloyd will [...]

We got the following MOL announcement for the Far East to Euro Trade. The Peak Season Surcharge is supposed to start as of August 1st! Quote We would like to inform you that MOL has decided upon the implementation of a Peak Season Surcharge (PSS) for cargo moving from Far East Asia (including South East [...]

This is a nice experiment and we are very curious to see, if it succeeds! Evergreen just announced a  GRI for the Transatlantic westbound trade in the middle of the strongest summer month, in August! See here the details:   Trade: Europe to USA & Puerto Rico (EGLV 615) Effective date: August 15, 2014 (carrier's [...]

  To all customers, carriers and friends of the OL Network Transatlantic Again the shipping world  keeps on being very interesting and often even the insiders are missing the logic behind the business, the volumes, the rate levels etc.   Reading the Drewry report we are surprised to learn the the volumes across the Atlantic [...]

NYK informs as follows:   Quote In view of the prevailing heavy congestion faced in Manila port, operating vessels have been seriously delayed. In order to cover the additional cost of maintaining a regular service, NYK would like to implement   Origin Cost Recovery Surcharge at USD 100 per teu on all exports from Manila port     as [...]

More and more that carriers are passing on the additional costs that the truckers incurr in trying to get through the constant traffic chaos in Hamburg.   Pls keep that in mind, that surcharge is more or less Euro 50 per move, depending on the carrier and the trucker.    

We received the following annoucement from NYK on the dramatic trucking situation in and around Hamburg: quote NYK would like to announce an implementation of an emergency truck transport congestion surcharge effective from the 25th July 2014, applicable for all carriers’ haulage transports via Hamburg terminals. Quantum – EUR 50 per container We will closely monitor [...]