China's COVID curbs hit Toyota, Volkswagen and Apple supplier FoxconnChina's efforts to curb its largest COVID-19 outbreak in two years has forced companies from Apple supplier Foxconn to automakers Toyota an...
15 Mar, 2022, 09.57 AM IST
Container freight rates set to rise on more China lockdownsThe rapid spread of the omicron variant in China is increasing the pressure on already strained supply chains reeling from Russia’s invasio...
15 Mar, 2022, 09.00 AM IST
China’s covid lockdowns could threaten half of economyAuthorities on Sunday placed Shenzhen’s 17.5 million residents into lockdown for at least a week amid a surge of Covid-19 infections in the...
14 Mar, 2022, 01.04 PM IST
Ship arrivals to Shenzhen’s Yantian Port delayed by a weekShips arriving to the Yantian terminal are delayed by an average seven days at the moment, and the number of ships arriving from Europe and...
21 Jan, 2022, 09.21 AM IST
China's Omicron outbreak is bad news for the global supply chainSporadic outbreaks scattered across the country of both the delta and omicron variants have already triggered shutdowns to clothing factori...
12 Jan, 2022, 09.06 AM IST
View: The ‘new normal’ in supply chains includes geopolitical dynamics & climate changeA global shortage of containers and the chaos at ports has choked the movement of goods and hurt many businesses. Worse, semiconductor shor...
10 Dec, 2021, 11.35 PM IST
Worst ship traffic jam since August is new headache for supply chainBottlenecks at container terminals around the world have added to pressure on supply chains already struggling to keep up with demand.
13 Oct, 2021, 09.20 AM IST
China’s electricity crunch is world’s latest supply-chain threatLocal governments are ordering the power cuts as they try to avoid missing targets for reducing energy and emissions intensity, while some ...
28 Sep, 2021, 10.08 AM IST
World’s third-busiest port remains partially shut in ChinaShipping firm Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. warned clients of potential “port congestion” due to the partial closure in an advisory, whi...
17 Aug, 2021, 10.26 AM IST
China’s port shutdown raises fears of closures worldwideThe shutdown at Ningbo-Zhoushan is raising fears that ports around the world will soon face the same kind of outbreaks and Covid restrictio...
13 Aug, 2021, 09.41 AM IST
This shipping dashboard shows why you should Christmas shop earlyDozens of ships are queued up around Yantian and, by one estimate, more than 400,000 20-foot containers were brought to a standstill.
28 Jun, 2021, 10.03 AM IST
One of world’s busiest ports is back to business after Covid jamMajor shipping lines such as A.P. Moller Maersk A/S and Mediterranean Shipping Co. have been avoiding the port, where tighter health and sa...
24 Jun, 2021, 09.59 AM IST
‘Worrying and unceasing congestion’ in supply chain continues to affect global tradeSupply chain disruptions continue to be very present in global trade and may be the sign of the new normal.
18 Jun, 2021, 09.50 AM IST
China’s worse-than-Suez ship delays set to widen trade chaosEven without the Suez blockage or port backlogs, the global transportation system would probably still be struggling with maxed-out capacit...
18 Jun, 2021, 09.33 AM IST
Ships skip Singapore as China congestion snarls supply chainThe disruption is causing further pain for global shippers already struggling with interruptions to supply chains from the pandemic, and th...
12 Jun, 2021, 09.46 AM IST
Major shipping firms warn of worsening congestion at China's Yantian portGlobal container shipping rates have climbed to record highs in recent months due to bottlenecks caused by a surge in demand for consumer g...
04 Jun, 2021, 08.57 AM IST
One of world’s top ports expects delays on China Covid outbreakYantian is one of the busiest ports in the world, with a cargo throughput of 13.34 million twenty-foot equivalent unit in 2020, a standard ...
01 Jun, 2021, 09.57 AM IST