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This Week in Logistics News (July 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Toasts Not Tariffs has urged the US government to secure an agreement with the EU to avoid the return of retaliatory tariffs on American whiskey, which would be 50 percent in 2024. Interact Analysis research indicates warehouse construction is showing signs of recovering following a slowdown in 2022 and 2023.

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Container Ship Orders Rise to 5.3 Million TEUs

MTS Logistics

According to BIMCO’s analysis of new shipbuilding orders, a total of 381 container ships with a nominal capacity of 3.44 million TEUs ordered at the end of 2008. In both 2023 and 2024, BIMCO estimates that 1.5 381 container ships have been ordered in 2021! million TEUs were ordered in 2021. million TEUs will be delivered.