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How General Average Could Ruin Your Ocean Cargo Deliveries

CH Robinson Transportfolio

How General Average Could Ruin Your Ocean Cargo Deliveries | Transportfolio. Start by building your knowledge of how general average works, how it can impact your shipments if general average is declared, and how marine cargo insurance can help you sleep like a baby at night. Ship owners have a lien on the ship’s cargo.

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10 Controversial Freight Predictions for 2016

Freightos

50% increase in major rail and road projects , widening of both the Suez and Panama canals), and with freer trade (e.g. The 2008-12 global recession, dampened demand, stoking TEU overcapacity, so plunging freight rates, and therefore forwarders’ margin. Rumors are flying of an Amazon air cargo operation. The best recent example?

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10 Controversial Freight Predictions for 2016

Freightos

50% increase in major rail and road projects , widening of both the Suez and Panama canals), and with freer trade (e.g. The 2008-12 global recession, dampened demand, stoking TEU overcapacity, so plunging freight rates, and therefore forwarders’ margin. Rumors are flying of an Amazon air cargo operation. The best recent example?

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Interoceanic Passages

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In reality, appointment and price systems must be used to control capacity for interoceanic canals like the Panama and Suez. The four most significant interoceanic passes in the globe are the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal, and the Strait of Panama. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5 meters in 2001.

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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

Climate change is affecting another crucial waterway, the Panama Canal. Journalist Andrew Freedman explains, “Geopolitical risks in the Red Sea and extreme weather in Central America are converging, jostling global supply chains fed by the Suez and Panama Canals.”[3] 3] Neither security risks nor climate risks are easily addressed.

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Six Logistics “Facts” That Are Wrong

Freightos

Niche specializations in routes or types of cargo can still win over shippers that are looking for reliability first and foremost. Construction work to widen the Panama Canal. The New Panama Canal Means Larger Ships Docking In New York. This attitude, prevalent until 2008, may have once been warranted.