Alphaliner published an interesting note this week which looked at the extraordinary performance of container freight rates, but at a granular level.
Analysing the recent gains on the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index – which charts nine deepsea trades out of …

Money doesn’t grow on trees, my late grandma used to argue – vehemently, day in day out.
When a major competitor reports preliminary numbers that suck and that rival is also the global market leader in a highly fragmented segment …

The South China Morning Post reports:
– Exports grew by 18.1 per cent in December from a year earlier, down from 21.1 per cent growth in November
– Imports grew by 6.5 per cent in December from a year earlier, …

SUPPLY CHAIN DIVE reports:
The supply chain landscape began the year absent of a familiar name. Damco is no more, after Maersk announced in September it would dissolve the freight forwarder brand by the end of 2020. Maersk absorbed Damco’s …

REUTERS reports:
German logistics group DB Schenker said it would stop accepting Britain-bound goods for the time being after the Brexit trade deal between the European Union and Britain left customers confused over customs requirements.
The haulier, a subsidiary of …

Barron’s writes:
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine offers enormous promise as a pathway out of the worst of the pandemic. Delivered as a single dose, without the extreme storage requirements of the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, it could speed …

2020 was another record-busting year for rail volumes on the New Silk Road, but a persistant bottleneck at the Kazakhstan border means lengthy delays for both rail and road freight.
According to Chinese media, China-Europe rail volumes reached 1.14m teu …