News in Brief Podcast | Week 7 | Tariff pandemonium and port congestion
In this episode of The Loadstar’s News in Brief Podcast, host and news reporter Charlotte Goldstone ...
Shanghai Shipping Exchange (SSE) and software solutions provider Cargosmart have teamed up to tackle vessel reliability concerns among shippers.
They will work together to develop a new method of calculating schedule reliability on key tradelanes to help shippers optimise their supply chains.
Vice president of SSE Yao Weifu said they aimed “to deliver a new shipping index that increases transparency to ocean carrier performance”.
According to reports, global containership reliability hovers at an embarrassing 80%, and chief commercial officer of Cargosmart Lionel Louie believes this can be bettered.
The software provider has 20 years’ experience in ...
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