Tag: imports

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Shipping Analyst, Filipe Gouveia, examines the outlook for global soya bean exports and imports this year and in 2025, which could be influenced by tariffs and China’s plans to reduce overall animal feed import dependency.

A 'shadow fleet,' or 'dark fleet,' has continued transporting Russian oil despite sanctions, explains the World Economic Forum (WEF) in a recent article. The oil revenue it provides helps fund Russia's military aggression.

Gasunie and Vopak announced that they have entered into a cooperation agreement in order to jointly develop future terminal infrastructure projects that will facilitate the necessary imports of hydrogen into Northwest Europe via Dutch and German ports.

The House of Representatives in Washington DC passed a bipartisan bill designed to strengthen shipping supply chains.

In an effort to improve cargo movement amid congestion and record volume, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will begin assessing a surcharge to ocean carriers for import containers that dwell on marine terminals.

South Africa’s operator Transnet declared a force majeure at Richards Bay Bulk Terminal, following a recent fire that broke out at the port.

Australia’s agricultural exporters are losing business because of increasing shipping delays and costs, prompting fresh calls for tighter regulation of container carriers.

COSCO SHIPPING shake hands with Anhui Provincial Port & Shipping Group and introduced a blockchain-based paperless import cargo platform for China’s inland ports.

Despite the COVID-19 major impacts on the economy, Port of Rotterdam managed to be fully operational amid the pandemic and achieved throughput of 218.9 million tonnes in the first six months of 2020.

Amid COVID-19 crisis, National Retail Federation along with Hackett Associates issued the Global Port Tracker report, highlighting that U.S. retail container ports appear to be slightly easing from the pandemic.