Category Archives: Shipping

Top 20 U.S. Ports: Competition Heats-Up for Discretionary Cargo – Supply Chain 24/7

A summary of current outlook at US ports around the country.  Competition is fierce, and events may conspire again to force us to change supply chains.

http://www.supplychain247.com/article/top_20_us_ports_competition_heats_up_for_discretionary_cargo

Regional container growth in China

Different ports are growing at different rates. so says Theo Notteboom, from his new post at Dalian University in China.  PortEconomics.eu is a very valuable source of data on worldwide port and shipping affairs and data.

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PortEconomics.eu – Different speeds in regional container growth in China.

How low can Container Freight rates go?

It seems that big ships may be setting off a price war.  Only the last carriers standing will survive these.  That’s those who can scrape out a minuscule profit over marginal cost.  At these prices carriers are not getting up to average cost, in all likelihood.

This post comes via Richard Ward on linkedin, from Freight Investor Services, a firm dealing in derivatives– futures, forward pricing, swaps and options,  and the like.

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Container Freight – how low can they go? – Freight Investor Services