Far East Maritime
A new approach is needed to tackle excess tonnage and volatile rates, but are the lines willing to change.
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5/17/2012 11:31:03 PM | with
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Don’t expect anything good this year is the bleak assessment from the world’s largest box carrier.
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5/16/2012 4:52:49 AM | with
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Just days after shippers on the transpacific were warned of an impressively high peak levy, peak season surcharge fever has arrived on Asia-Europe.
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5/10/2012 8:37:26 PM | with
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Never slow to seize a revenue-gathering opportunity, transpacific carriers expecting cargo to build through the summer were swift to slap down the peak levy.
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5/8/2012 11:35:39 PM | with
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Here’s a question for US ports: Would it be possible to get planning approval to reclaim 220 square kilometres of land?
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5/4/2012 3:59:11 AM | with
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The port of the future will need to take into account the capacity problems plaguing their customers.
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5/2/2012 10:12:42 PM | with
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Taiwan’s biggest container shipping line has seized an opportunity to ramp up its orderbook at fire sale prices.
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4/26/2012 9:33:22 PM | with
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Reporting on the mainland can be tricky even for shipping media hacks, as I found out in Chongqing recently.
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4/25/2012 12:12:09 AM | with
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When it comes to maritime hubs, Hong Kong has fallen well behind Singapore.
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4/20/2012 5:48:07 AM | with
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Rates are sticking and capacity management appears to be improving. But how long can it last?
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4/18/2012 1:32:15 AM | with
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This year will see the weakest Chinese growth rate since 2001, is the grim prediction from HSBC’s aptly named chief economist Stephen King.
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4/13/2012 10:52:01 AM | with
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Just as the carriers finally bend the supply demand curve back into shape, they appear ready to blow it out all over again.
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4/10/2012 10:56:06 PM | with
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Mercifully, the 2011 reporting season is almost over and soon will be consigned to the scrapheap of history, or better still, wrapped in a shroud and dumped overboard.
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4/3/2012 8:01:29 PM | with
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With not much going on in the mainland export markets, the world’s transport and logistics operators are fast moving into the country’s domestic distribution arena.
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3/28/2012 2:51:20 AM | with
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The steady fall in China’s manufacturing activity over the past few months is raising a giant red flag.
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3/22/2012 9:39:47 PM | with
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The Factory of the World is on a go slow, and the thick cluster of container terminals in South China are nervously contemplating a steady fall in traffic.
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3/15/2012 10:39:08 PM | with
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The container shipping line mantra over the past few years has been “get big or go home”, but the size of ships on a bloated orderbook threatens to create havoc on Intra-Asia trade.
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3/14/2012 3:16:34 AM | with
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The numbers may have changed, but the issues that keep transpacific container shipping lines and their customers at each other’s throats remain the same.
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3/7/2012 7:48:59 PM | with
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They don’t call shipping a cyclical business for nothing, so by definition the bad times can’t last forever.
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3/2/2012 1:08:35 AM | with
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Unless there is a mass withdrawal of capacity, the container shipping business is going to have a very unhappy 2012.
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2/28/2012 6:32:48 PM | with
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Russia’s transportation officials are failing to address the country’s vast infrastructure shortcomings, bureaucratic snafus and general mismanagement.
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2/24/2012 4:23:02 AM | with
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The bad news is that this year will not be a good one, and probably not next year, either. The good news is that the future is so bright HSBC’s trade analysts have all flipped down their welding helmets.
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2/22/2012 1:12:29 AM | with
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The real growth in Hong Kong lies in the double counting of transhipment cargo barged down the Pearl River or fed in from regional ports.
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2/16/2012 9:48:25 PM | with
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In the parallel universe occupied by container shipping lines, the steep rate hikes are unrealistic and a desperate attempt to raise profitability before signing annual contracts.
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2/14/2012 10:23:22 PM | with
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Summer can’t come fast enough for the frozen northeast.
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2/10/2012 2:18:13 AM | with
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The traditional government inertia means Hong Kong’s inexorable transition to a transshipment port will continue.
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2/2/2012 10:29:33 PM | with
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As the losses pour in, it is hardly surprising to see container carriers preparing to hit shippers with hefty GRIs.
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2/1/2012 4:21:37 AM | with
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Rail remains the south China port’s best bet as export-producing factories move away from the coast.
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1/26/2012 7:03:26 PM | with
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The greatest threat to Beijing’s Go West initiative is emerging as a lack of water in the parched inland provinces.
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1/25/2012 9:01:51 PM | with
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You don't have to be an accounting guru to predict dismal 2011 results, but China Shipping's expected financials give an indication of the depth to which container carriers can expect to sink.
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1/20/2012 2:30:10 AM | with
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