TOC Asia 2019 – back at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
The Pan Asia event for people who own, move & handle containerised cargo A high-level conference attended by representatives of the whole container supply chain that will enrich your knowledge...
View ArticleCarriers making heavy weather of punctuality – but it’s not all their fault
Typhoons and other adverse weather events are playing havoc with carrier schedules, presenting a “major challenge” to the industry as it aims to recover from the record low levels of schedule...
View ArticleIMO 2020 doomsday predictions are overblown, claim – ‘box lines will cope’
Doomsday predictions surrounding the IMO 2020 sulphur fuel cap and its impact on container lines are unfounded, according to Alphaliner chief analyst Tan Hua Joo. Speaking yesterday at the TOC Asia...
View ArticleShippers should be ‘careful what they wish for’ on block exemption regulations
Shippers should think twice about lobbying the EU to lift the block exemption regulation (BER) for liner shipping, it was claimed yesterday. Wading into the recent war of words between shippers and...
View ArticleBoxing clever can help reduce the growing cost of empty container repositioning
Costly empty container repositioning has been exacerbated by the US-China trade war, as more empty boxes than ever before head back to Asia. However, artificial intelligence (AI) and the digitisation...
View ArticleJIT shipping could cut surging fuel costs and boost schedule reliability
Just-in-time (JIT) vessel arrivals could answer two of container shipping’s most pressing problems: surging fuel costs and poor schedule reliability. Vessel tracking specialist MarineTraffic is working...
View Article‘ASEAN tiger’ shippers say they don’t need ULCVs on the intra-Asia trade
As the ASEAN “tiger economies” continue to reshape the world’s largest container trade, some domestic shippers are questioning the industry’s march towards ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs). With...
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