News in Brief podcast | Week 30 2024 | Surcharges, strikes and IATA's stressful settlements
In this episode of The Loadstar’s News in Brief Podcast, host and news reporter Charlotte Goldstone ...
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As the strike in Hong Kong’s container terminals continues, it has pushed one of shipping’s more media-shy companies, Hutchison Port Holdings, firmly into the spotlight, which is the last place it normally likes to find itself. Its famously taciturn boss John Meredith even published an opinion piece in the South China Morning Post this week, arguing that the net effect of the action is simply to push cargo to other ports. However, this fine analysis by Hong Kong-based maritime journalist Greg Knowler argues that cargo leakage from what used to be the world’s largest box port has been underway for some time.
Foreign airlines react to sudden new US rule tightening air cargo security
'Forwarders hope DSV will win DB Schenker'
Container manufacturers tell customers they are ‘sold out’ until mid-October
Transpacific rates war breaks out as new arrivals undercut major liners
Threat of more strikes at German ports as workers reject 'inadequate' offer
Bust-to-boom-to-bust: the cyclicality of air cargo growth patterns
Strike at major Indian ports called off, but supply chain challenges remain
Transhipment boom at port of Colombo fades as the competition grows
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