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Are You Shipping Me?!? $32,000 Container Move From China To LA
The blows to the global supply chain never seem to end in 2021, resulting in delays that have sharply reduced the system's effective capacity and put upward pressure on shipping rates that began reaching record highs months ago.
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Port Of Savannah Sets Another Record, But Growth Seen Slowing
After reporting another record fiscal year of volume growth, the Port of Savannah's near-term encore is likely to be somewhat muted.
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EDRAY Receives $7M To Improve Port Logistics Through Flow Stacking
EDRAY, a drayage platform, is looking to revolutionize the way technology executes port logistics.   The company announced Tuesday it is looking to accelerate its growth and expand its suite of drayage solutions with a recent $7 million investment from logistics entrepreneur and investor Andrew Leto.
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Daily Infographic: Port Houston Posts 39% Year-Over-Year Container Volume Growth
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Full Steam Ahead: Why Container Ships Are Racing Across The Pacific
There are almost no container ships in the world left for liners to charter. Secondhand purchase prices are through the roof. It takes two years or more to get a newly built ship. How can liners find more capacity? There is a way — without adding ships — for liners to move more cargo and take even greater advantage of today's stratospheric rates: speed up.
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Port Of Houston Posts 39% Year-Over-Year Container Volume Growth
Port Houston's container activity in June surpassed the record level of twenty-foot equivalent units for the same month last year, despite a decline in steel and auto volumes. Total June container volume was 292,627 TEUs, a 39% increase compared to the same month in 2020.
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Disunified Chassis Leasing System Exacerbates Port Congestion
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12 HMM Container Ships' Sticker Price $1.57 Billion
HMM announced Tuesday that it will pay $1.57 billion for 12 container ships that each can carry 13,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. 
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Florida's JAXPORT Boasts Record Container Volumes In May
May was a record month for container volumes at JAXPORT, the Florida port serving the greater Jacksonville area and beyond.
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Daily Infographic: Container Ship Fleet Size
Port Of LA Reaches 10 Million-Container Milestone
The Port of Los Angeles on Thursday became the first port in the Western Hemisphere to process 10 million container units in a 12-month period.
Container Ship Scores 'Off The Charts,' 'Fantasy' Charter Rate: $135,000/Day
In a sign of just how frenzied the container market has become, a freight forwarder is reportedly paying $135,000 per day for a short-term charter of the S Santiago, a container ship with a capacity of 5,060 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). "Charter rates for short employment … have gone out of control," said Alphaliner in its new weekly report.
Benefits For All: How Standardization Is Bridging Container Shipping's Digital Divide
The digital revolution has changed the way the world does business. That change has been more evident and more rapid than ever before over the past year as all industries grapple with the challenges of COVID-19. Container shipping is no exception to the digital revolution, but the pace and benefits of that change have not always been equally felt by all participants.
Port Of Savannah Year-Over-Year Container Volume Up 38%
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) reported this week the Port of Savannah had achieved its busiest April on record and its second-busiest month ever. The busiest occurred just one month earlier.
Hapag-Lloyd Raises Box Order To 'Counteract The Container Shortage'
Hapag-Lloyd has increased its container order by 60,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
American Shippers Want FMC Container Availability Rule Published
East Coast Ports Poised To Poach Even More Boxes From West
Drewry: Container Freight Rates Could Rise In Coming Months
Port Of Los Angeles OKs Report For West Basin Container Terminal
Port Report: Break Bulk Markets Squeezed By Ports And Alternative Competitors
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