Gas Still Has a Bright Shipping Future in a Much Cleaner World

Liquefied gas has a strong future as a marine fuel, even if shipping’s global regulator adopts stricter emissions targets. That’s according to DNV AS, which sets ship safety standards. It sees liquefied natural gas having a significant role in fueling the industry that transports more than 80% of world trade ...

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U.S. Retail Lobby Sends S.O.S. to Congress on Supply-Chain Chaos

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S.’s biggest retail lobby asked Congress to pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package as well as update shipping and trucking laws to ease a supply-chain crisis that’s raising prices and causing shortages....

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Lost in Transit: Major Delays Plague China-U.S. Shipping

According to freight booking platform Freightos, container ship pileups at ports on both ends of the journey are significantly increasing the transit time and are adding to the global container shortage that has seen shipping boxes pile up in the U.S. and Europe as the stream of wares coming out of Asia intensified ...

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Empty shipping containers pile up in LA while China has shortage

The Port of Los Angeles with containers, ships and trucks is shown on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 13, 2021. President Joe Biden announced a deal to expand operations at the Port of Los Angeles in hopes of ending the logjam of ships waiting to unload. The supply chain squeeze has caused climbing prices and delays in ...

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Shipping drifts off net-zero course without carbon levy -study

COPENHAGEN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The global shipping industry is on course to see its greenhouse gas emissions rise by around a fifth by 2050 if action including introducing a carbon levy on fuel is not taken, new research backed by industry leaders shows....

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Ugly Christmas sweaters may be in short supply this year, as the shipping crisis has left them stuck on delayed container ships, a report says

Ostentatious holiday sweaters have been growing in popularity for years. There are ugly-sweater fun runs held around the world. Rent the Runway launched a capsule collection. A Popeyes version sold out in hours. Office Christmas parties use them as a theme. And there are many, many lists — here are three from Insider ...

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Supply chain crisis prompts city officials to suspend shipping container stacking limits

In response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order calling on agencies to do their part in alleviating unprecedented congestion at the state’s ports, Long Beach officials today announced the temporary suspension of a section of the municipal code that restricts shipping container stacking. The suspension was ...

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Container shipping rates entering extended period of volatility

The global container shipping industry is entering a period of volatility that will extend long after the current peak shipping season, with a return to pre-pandemic market conditions almost certainly out of reach, according to consultancy Vespucci Maritime CEO Lars Jensen....

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Investments in deep-water ports helps paying off in Viet Nam

Data from the General Statistics Office shows that in the first half of this year seaports in southern provinces like Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Tien Giang and An Giang achieved high growth rates....

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Shipping on Northern Sea Route has course for 35 million tons in 2021

There is considerable growth in shipments on Russia s remote Arctic route, but shippers will have to boost deliveries by more than 100 percent in only two years if they are to reach the target set by the Kremlin....

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