Shipping
Biden administration prepares for a possible railroad worker strike
The White House has been preparing contingency options to hold crucial products moving and transportation traces open up if union railroad staff strike later this week, White House Push Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated Tuesday. “We are functioning with other modes of transportation including shippers, truckers and air freight to see how they can action in […]
Read More
Ocean shipping’s major bets on likely eco-friendly, from wind electricity to methanol and liquid hydrogen
Airseas, the maritime device of France’s Airbus, has designed a gigantic, automated kite referred to as Seawing, which fundamentally tows a ship. Airseas The delivery marketplace accounts for just about 3% of the world’s overall greenhouse gasoline emissions, making as considerably artifical carbon dioxide as all the coal-fired ability plants in the U.S. combined. Continue […]
Read More
How China’s strict Covid policies led to supply chain bottlenecks
At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, China’s strict “zero-Covid” policies managed to keep Covid-19 at bay. More than two years later, the country’s ongoing controls are still weighing down its economy and stalling global supply chains. “Zero-Covid has become one of the select drivers of global recession,” Steve Morrison, senior vice president at the […]
Read More
BofA upgrades beverage company Vita Coco, citing declining ocean freight costs
Bank of America sees a stabilizing ocean freight market as a positive catalyst for Vita Coco going forward. The firm on Friday upgraded the beverage company’s stock to buy and raised its price target to $12 from $10. The stock jumped more than 17% Friday to trade at about $11.60 per share. The price change […]
Read More
There’s a battle over inflation-linked pay adding to European port contagion
The growing congestion at ports in Germany and the Netherlands, which could delay car and furniture shipments to the U.S. for weeks, shows no signs of clearing up as the latest round of labor negotiations between the Central Association of German Seaport Companies (ZDS) and ver.di, the German labor union, ended with no agreement. A […]
Read More
Congested Port of Oakland slashing free wait time for import containers
In an aerial view, shipping containers sit on the dock at the Port of Oakland on May 20, 2022 in Oakland, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Port of Oakland has had enough of the long-dwelling import containers clogging its ports. On July 1, Oakland is reducing the tariff-free time from seven days to […]
Read More
The housing market slowdown is showing up in shipping data from China
Spending cutbacks by the consumer already led to a decrease in Chinese manufacturing orders by U.S. importers of 20-30%, as recently reported by CNBC, and more recent data from U.S. shippers shows the housing market slowdown is now showing up in the Asian supply chain data too. “We are seeing the impact and slowdown across […]
Read More
World’s largest hybrid ship set to ferry passengers between Britain and France
An artist’s impression of the Saint-Malo at sea. According to Brittany Ferries will have a battery capacity of 11.5 megawatt hours. Brittany Ferries A ship set to carry passengers between the U.K. and France in the next few years will be the largest hybrid-vessel ever built, according to operator Brittany Ferries. In a statement Tuesday, […]
Read More
1980s-era rate hikes designed to fight inflation will create more market turmoil, Canaccord’s Tony Dwyer predicts
Stocks may go into a deeper tailspin. Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer predicts 1980s-era interest rate hikes will exacerbate the turmoil and make a recession seem increasingly more likely. “Typically, I’ve been bullish over the years. But there’s a money availability problem,” the firm’s chief market strategist told CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Monday. “Ultimately, you have […]
Read More
Silicon Valley supply chain fixer Flexport tops the 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 list
After a year in which supply chain bottlenecks roiled the global economy, Flexport, which uses technology to improve supply chains, reaches the top of the CNBC Disruptor 50 list. Freight forwarding, the official name for the industry Flexport is disrupting, is the centuries-old, trillion-dollar global business of matching companies that make stuff with companies that […]
Read More