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Analysis: Today’s Global Economy vs. Global Container Shipping

MTS Logistics

For example: The global GDP growth rate for 2021 was 6.02%, a 9.1% Fleet Overcapacity The container shipping industry has experienced significant growth in recent years, leading to an increase in vessel capacity. Considering higher capacity, with reduced demand, these tools have barely any impact. increase from 2020.

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Analysis on 2021 Container Shipping Delays

ShipLilly

The coming months are going to be a real test of the shipping industry in terms of how it can manage capacity and coordinate to meet the needs of customers. Chinese factories are facing challenges of meeting excessive orders that are way beyond their current capacity. The statistics are startling.

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Global Logistics Market Analysis: 2022 Summer Edition

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Last year was marked with capacity issues and high prices, but today, freight prices have decreased, while capacity has increased. For example, recently Target was forced to write down the value of excess inventory that’s stuck in warehouses. consumer demand despite increasing inflation. Furthermore, T.J.

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Navigating the Global Air Freight Capacity Crunch

Now, That's Logistics

Securing capacity for global air shipments has become more difficult this year as total freight volumes receded and as carriers reduced their flights as a way to offset that drop in volume. According to IATA’s most recent Air Cargo Market Analysis , August 2020 air cargo traffic is “recovering slowly amid insufficient capacity.”

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FreightWaves SONAR releases Capacity Trend Indices

FreightWaves SONAR

FreightWaves SONAR is releasing new indices – Capacity Trend Market Scores and Capacity Trend Market Direction – to help shippers, carriers and brokers prioritize specific routes daily. Capacity Trend Market Scores Capacity Trend Market Scores are divided into two perspectives – shipper/broker and carrier.

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Analysis: Why Upcoming ILWU Contract Negotiations are Making Importers Uneasy

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Across the world, there are 53 automated container terminals, which is about 4% of total container capacity. For example, for a small container ship between 0 and 4,000 TEUs, the unloading and loading time is three times higher than the most-efficient port. To give one example of the labor cost on the U.S. ports are quite low.

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SONAR Indices & Insights: Plan and Measure Refrigerated Shipping Capacity & Rates

FreightWaves SONAR

In this article, you learn what are the various reefer freight data indices available in SONAR, who in the freight market relies on these indices, what the indices tell freight market participants, and real-world scenario analysis of using SONAR refrigerated shipping indices to better understand the freight market. RHAUL.ATL = 50.