With maritime supply chain disruptions increasingly featuring in the news, whether in the Suez Canal, or in San Pedro Bay, California, the anchorage for Los Angeles and Long Beach, a webinar featuring Carl Bentzel, Commissioner at the US Federal...
This issue of Seatrade Maritime Review examines how the global pandemic has served to overshadow some of the other vital issues facing the shipping industry – most notably the environmental challenge, the main theme of this issue.
There was something reassuringly positive about that ancient phrase found in charter parties which required the chartered vessel to “proceed with utmost despatch and without deviation” to her eventual destination.
Congestion at US ports has become a mainstream issue not simply confined to shipping people. Retail supply chains, which gets to the items that consumers are buying in stores - or, these days, through online shopping - have been greatly impacted.
The ports in Florida have still been smarting from the cessation of cruise traffic, and the landside benefits around port areas, but the good news is that cargo volumes have come back
Shipping stocks in the US are drawing a new found interest and volume and analysts believe that the market could be headed for a multi-year upturn.
A meeting of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sub-committee saw the issues of stevedores as key workers for vaccinations, queues of containerships on the US West Coast, and the country’s shipyards in focus.