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4 days ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
Perishables shippers want more reliability on South America trades after Q1 figures mirror uncertainty, according to a Sea-Intelligence analysis on deviations between scheduled and actual transit times for tradelanes connected to the continent. In its Sunday Spotlight, the maritime intelligence platform analysed port pairs that had 13 or more connections in the first t hree months of the year.
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4 days ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
In this episode of The Loadstar’s News in Brief Podcast, host and news reporter Charlotte Goldstone recaps last week’s supply chain news, including a possible end to the Red Sea crisis and a depressing outlook for US truckers. The Loadstar’s managing editor, Gavin van Marle, tells listeners about the diverging strategies between the shipping alliances when it comes to organising their networks amid a demand slump.
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1 week ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
A “cautious” Hapag-Lloyd has warned it will not accept bookings if port congestion leaves cargo “stranded” at transhipment hubs, leaving Canadian forwarders struggling to secure space to the Middle East. In a briefing yesterday by Hapag-Lloyd and the Canadian port of St John, one forwarder said “many in Canada are experiencing challenges securing space to key Middle East destinations until late June to early July”.
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1 week ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
The UK Road Haulage Association (RHA) and British International Freight Association (BIFA) have called on government to change “deeply unfair” rules relating to stowaways found on HGVs, as hauliers and forwarders are being hit with “additional costs, damage to vehicles, and delays”. A recent inspection by the chief inspector of borders and immigration (ICBI) revealed “a number of flaws” in how the UK Clandestine Entrant Civil Penalty Scheme (CECPS) is managed.
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1 week ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
Misdeclared shipments are causing delays at US borders, with full truckloads being turned away if just one item is non-compliant, Canadian shipping company ChitChats warned this week. “As you know, China-origin goods have been excluded from de minimis entry into the United States. Our border crossings on 2 May and 3 May were denied due to some shipments being misdeclared, but were in fact of Chinese origin,” said ChitChats.
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1 week ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
Airlines have already significantly cut freighter capacity since last week’s de minimis change in the US, and there will likely be more to come, warned Derek Lossing, founder and senior industry advisor of ecommerce and transportation at Cirrus Global Advisors (CGA). CGA reported yesterday there had been an average of 19 fewer aircraft every day into the US after Friday’s revocation of de minimis privileges for packages valued at less than $800 from China and Hong Kong. “This is in addition to ...
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1 week ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
In this episode of The Loadstar’s News in Brief Podcast, host and news reporter Charlotte Goldstone recaps last week’s supply chain news, including the latest changes to de minimis rules in the US. Ms Goldstone concludes the episode as usual by giving you a heads-up on what to look out for this week.
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2 weeks ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
Ocean carriers “need a big nudge” to get their global on-time performance (OTP) back to pre-pandemic levels, according to today’s data from maritime analysts at eeSea. Last month, global OTP was just 30%, and this was “slightly improved” from the 28% in March and February and 25% in JanuaryPre-pandemic norms were around 72% and, according to eeSea data, ocean liner schedule reliability has not managed to achieve more than 34% in well over a year. However, says eeSea, it seems unfair ...
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2 weeks ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
Shippers and forwarders with long-term commitments for transpacific aircraft capacity could find themselves in a turbulent situation if airlines don’t make concessions as the US de minimis exemption is lifted this week. Tomorrow, the US will revoke de minimis customs exemption for all postal items from China or Hong Kong valued less than $800. The packages will be subject to one of two duty rates elected by the carrier ? 120% of the item’s value or $100 per item. And from ...
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2 weeks ago | 
theloadstar.com | Charlotte Goldstone
The year got off to a good start for liners Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express (ONE), but they believe it could be downhill from here. In its Q1 25 earnings statement, Hapag-Lloyd revealed an operating result “significantly up, compared with Q1 24”, reporting a 17% increase in ebitda, to $1.1bn, and ebit up 24%, to $500m. The German carrier attributed the main drivers to be strong demand, which resulted in a transported volume of 3.3m teu, and an improved average freight rate, ...
