If it seems like shipping delays and soaring delivery costs aren’t getting any better, it’s because they’re both getting worse.Throughout the pandemic, blame for global supply-chain disruptions has bounced from...
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U.S. 1st 3D commercial ship under construction
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Robert Allan (RAL), Signet Maritime Corporation and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) have developed a commercial vessel using an end-to-end 3D design process.The vessel,...
Chinese port difficulties amid a Covid outbreak further snarl global trade.
The Yantian port in Shenzhen, China, last year. Efforts to control a coronavirus outbreak have caused big delays for vessels seeking to pick up goods for North America, Europe and...
ZIM and Alibaba extend commercial partnership
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. , a global container liner shipping company, and Alibaba.com, the world's leading B2B eCommerce platform and a business unit of Alibaba Group , announced that...
Mounting evidence that container crunch will persist until 2022
Retail inventory-to-sales levels still historically low despite higher spending on services A widely held theory on pandemic spending is that container imports surged because Americans bought a lot more goods...