The Loadstar

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – It was just over a month ago that forwarders began to realise significant disruption was on the way for the

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The sense of genuine anger amongst North European shippers and freight forwarders was palpable this week as they

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Despite the large tranches of new container shipping capacity hitting the water in recent months, Asia-Europe

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – “You take away all sense and rationale. And whatever is left, is the container shipping market,” said Peter

By Alex Lennane (The Loadstar) – Forwarders are warning customers that demand on Asia-Europe ocean trades is beginning to look a lot like the pandemic

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – A strengthening demand scenario on the Asia-European trades appears to have caught carriers and forwarders by

By Charlie Bartlett (The Loadstar) – The Saudi Arabian hub port of Jeddah is reporting a two-thirds drop in calls from the top ten carriers, as

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – The main US ports enjoyed another stellar month in March, according to new figures from noted analyst John McCown

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Hong Kong fell out of the world’s top 10 container ports last year, for the first time in the history of container

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – While container spot rates on the Asia-Europe and Asia-North America trades continued to remain elevated, year on

By Charlotte Goldstone (The Loadstar) – The past week has seen an increase in attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, and a Houthi spokesperson has sparked

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Container spot freight rates on the main deepsea east-west trades continued their gentle descent over the course of

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – MSC, Maersk and Zim are the three carriers most exposed to the supply chain disruption stemming from the collapsed

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Japanese carrier ONE and Taiwan’s Yang Ming today issued a transpacific network update to apply following the

By Martina Li in Taiwan (The Loadstar) – To reassure shippers that its transpacific coverage will remain strong, THE Alliance (Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, HMM and

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Based upon initial feedback to The Loadstar, there appears to have been only a handful of shippers,

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Yang Ming slid into the red in the final quarter of 2023, with a net loss of $43m after a profit of $483m in

By Gavin van Marle in Long Beach (The Loadstar) – The question of rates and annual contracts – and the effects of the Red Sea crisis on both – may

By Mike Wackett in Long Beach (The Loadstar) – Some 4,000 container shipping industry attendees are assembling at the Long Beach Convention Center in

By Mike Wackett The Ocean Alliance east-west liner services vessel-sharing agreement between CMA CGM, Cosco, OOCL and Evergreen, has been extended until 31