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China’s Northern Port of Dalian Begins New COVID-Related Lockdowns

The northeastern port city of Dalian in China is being a third round of lockdowns and quarantine as the city has been linked to a new wave of the Delta variant of COVID-19. Health officials have begun closing non-essential businesses including at least parts of...

Air Freight Handling Stressed at Multiple Airports

Sustained high demand, diminished capacity, COVID-safe work practices and apparent labour shortages continue to place immense pressure on global air freight hubs, creating congestion at multiple airports around the world. UK freight agent Metro Shipping said that, “while there are different situations at different airports, the...

Prime Freight Market Updates – November 2021

Traffic Backs Up along the Yangtze as Pilots Are Required to Quarantine Traffic along the Yangtze, China’s longest river and a massive source of cargoes both domestically and for export, is worsening. According to analysts at Singapore’s Eastport Research, traffic has been backing up at ports near...

Two-Thirds of All Containerships Are Behind Schedule: Sea-Intelligence

Global port congestion and backlogs continue to play havoc on liner schedules. According to new data from Sea-Intelligence schedule reliability remains at the low end of the range seen in 2021. In September, two out ever three vessels were behind schedule with the number of...

Prime Freight Market Updates October 2021

Suppliers in Vietnam Are Facing a Worker Shortage, Leading to Cancelled Orders Despite the Economy's Reopening Vietnam may have ended one of its longest lockdowns in the pandemic era on Oct. 1, but supply chains are still reeling from the effects. Four months of increasing restrictions meant to...

Containership Traffic Jam in Southeast Asia Worst Since April

Typhoon Kompasu has resulted in the worst container shipping traffic jam in months, one that now stretches throughout Southeast Asia and may take weeks to unravel. Although port operations are largely back to normal in Shenzhen and Hong Kong after the tropical storm’s passing, the total...

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