A key Canadian shipping corridor is the latest waterway struggling with decreasing water levels.

Parts of the St. Lawrence River near Montreal have hit 10-year lows, said Bryce Carmichael, hydraulic engineer and U.S. section secretary for the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board. Seaway managers in Canada and the U.S. are monitoring the conditions and considering boosting the flow …


 

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In ongoing extensive discussions with Microsoft, we discovered that the issue impacts other domains and not exclusively the Omnitrans emails.

This would affect automated distributions from the [email protected] account including billing,


 

A bout of covid-inspired lockdowns at the world’s largest port is having an impact on vessel traffic, despite Chinese authorities insisting volumes are normal.

A covid outbreak was first detected in Ningbo on Thursday last week, with a district, Daxie, quickly placed in lockdown over the weekend. By Monday, however, the outbreak had spread to Beilun, an area that …


 

Montreal

• Yard utilization remains high
• Congestion due to high port demand amidst declining labor availability

Halifax

• All terminals are operating normally
• Vessel berth wait time is 4 – 7 days
• Rail dwell time is averaging 5 – 8 days

Prince Rupert

• Vessel berth wait time is averaging 5 – 8 days
• Yard …


 

US retailers Friday said they now expect October imports to fall 9.4% year over year – essentially doubling their prior projection for the month’s decline.

In the Global Port Tracker (GPT) published in September, the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates predicted October imports would be down 4.8% from the year-ago month.

The growth in US import volume has …


 

Global container throughput dropped in the month of July compared to June, but the market continues to show signs of recovery compared to 2021 levels, according to recent data from Drewry.

The Drewry Global Container Port Throughput Index dropped 2.1% month-on-month (MoM) in July 2022 but was 3.3% higher year-on-year (YoY).

The performance since July was bolstered by the …


 

With the continued gradual improvement in schedule reliability in August 2022 and the resultant improvement in vessel delays, the global fleet that was unavailable due to these delays dropped to 7.9%, according to the latest report by Danish shipping data analysis company, Sea-Intelligence, while the peak of 13.8% was in January 2022.

“Keeping in mind the baseline unavailable capacity …


 

General airfreight spot rates have fallen as the air cargo market faces lower demand and more capacity.

According to the latest weekly market data from Xeneta-owned CLIVE Data Services, general airfreight spot rates fell 9% year-on-year in September, to below the 2021 level for the first time this year, as returning global cargo capacity continued to outpace air cargo …


 

CMA CGM is revamping its US Gulf–Brazil loops to bypass congested ports in Panama and starting a new string connecting the US East Coast with the West Coast of South America, the Marseille-based container carrier said in customer updates Monday.

Starting in November, CMA CGM will reconfigure its current Brazex1 and Brazex2 services into the New Brazex, a weekly …


 

Montreal

• Yard utilization remains high
• Congestion due to high port demand amidst declining labor availability

Halifax

• All terminals are operating normally
• Vessel berth wait time is 4 – 7 days
• Rail dwell time is averaging 3 – 5 days

Prince Rupert

• Vessel berth wait time is averaging 5 – 8 days
• Yard …