Archive: November 2023

November 29, 2023


Carriers Set Course for New Shores in Search of Profitable Growth

Ocean carriers are refocusing their strategies away from the traditional, but oversupplied, east-west routes, seeking growth in north-south trades – although the burgeoning Indian export market is an outlier. According to a survey by Alphaliner, African trades recorded the highest…

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November 20, 2023


US East Coast Ports See Imports Turn West

The US west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach reported strong import container throughput in October, as some holiday season cargo owners shied away from routing via the east coast gateways (source: the Loadstar).

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November 17, 2023


Panama Canal Crisis Detours US Farm Exports Through Suez

As a record-setting drought throttles transits through the Panama Canal, most of the focus has been on higher-capacity ships: the container vessels, liquefied natural gas carriers and liquefied petroleum gas carriers that use the larger Neopanamax locks. But there’s another shipping…

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November 7, 2023


$653 Million Earmarked for US Port Development

The US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has announced over $653m to fund 41 port improvement projects across the nation under the Port Infrastructure Development Program (source: Splash 247).

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