Trump’s tariffs roil trade: Container freight rates set to stay weak through FY25Container freight rates are projected to remain low due to global trade uncertainties caused by US tariffs. Exporters accelerated shipments...
20 Sep, 2025, 12.26 AM IST
Tariff truce spurs Pacific trade rush, boosting global shippersA temporary trade truce between the US and China is expected to trigger a surge in transpacific shipping, benefiting major carriers like Ma...
17 May, 2025, 09.32 AM IST
Global container shipping volume to fall 1% on Trump trade policies, Drewry saysThe Trump administration's tariffs on goods from China and other nations are prompting businesses to shift production to countries with low...
25 Apr, 2025, 10.11 AM IST
Surging shipping costs give companies a sinking feelingThe global shipping industry faced significant challenges, with spot freight rates increasing by around 105% in three months. Companies lik...
27 Jul, 2024, 07.44 PM IST
View: March madness is coming for the global shipping gameIn the low season, global logistics industry negotiates long-term contracts. Game theory is involved. War, pandemics, and financial crises ...
13 Mar, 2024, 06.39 AM IST
Shipping CEO sees ‘green shoots,’ says container rates must riseOcean-cargo firms that haul four-fifths of the global merchandise trade brought in windfall profits in the year 2021.
11 Aug, 2023, 09.49 AM IST
Charting the global economy: India's job scene improves, Euro-zone returns to growthThe euro-area economy returned to growth while underlying inflation pressures persisted — supporting early arguments for the European Centr...
06 Aug, 2023, 10.16 AM IST
Shipping companies are on a spending spreeMajor shipping firms are spending record profits on new models mostly from shipyards of Korea and China.
01 Aug, 2023, 09.37 AM IST
Weaker demand for goods from Asia marks end of shipping bonanzaIn what’s typically the peak season for seaborne trade, global demand for Chinese goods is waning instead as consumers cut back spending be...
26 Sep, 2022, 09.06 AM IST
As snarls mount, economists take a walk on the supply sideBefore the pandemic, the supply of goods and services was what economists would generally call “elastic” — flexing easily to match demand.
01 May, 2022, 10.56 AM IST
This port logjam has enough containers to cross half the USOutside the neighboring ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, the queue as of late Thursday had lengthened by 10 vessels over th...
19 Sep, 2021, 11.36 AM IST
No respite to the shipping crisis and that’s bad news for Indian SMEsIn India, October is the onset of the holiday season, similar to that in the US. Hence, it is usually the time when demand for certain manu...
28 Jun, 2021, 10.28 AM IST
A summer of sold-out ships awaits as sea cargo chaos intensifiesAny hope for a return to more normal conditions this year was quashed with the beaching of the Ever Given that stalled traffic through the ...
04 May, 2021, 09.16 AM IST
- DP World becomes third-largest ports company
Dubai Port World (DP World) has become the world's third-biggest ports operator with 50 terminals and 11 new developments across 31 countri...
06 Sep, 2010, 02.07 AM IST
- Drewry hopeful of global container cargo growth
London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants said the industry will know more if the world recession is on the run in the next six weeks after ...
12 Jul, 2010, 12.32 AM IST
- Drewry punches holes in box recovery story
Drewry Shipping Consultants' latest Container Forecaster has identified a number of weaknesses in the ocean liner industry that banish hope...
20 Jul, 2009, 02.39 AM IST
- Drewry draws a bleak 2009 for shipping
Drewry Shipping Consultants has painted an alarming picture of global shipping in its latest quarterly Container Forecaster. The current ye...
19 Jan, 2009, 12.19 AM IST