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📢 X-Press bucks the trend with order for more new feeder vessels

The huge containership orderbook is significantly weighted towards larger vessels, with little investment in recent years in replacement tonnage for the ageing smaller sizes.

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X-Press bucks the trend with order for more new feeder vessels The huge containership orderbook is significantly weighted towards larger vessels, with little investment in recent years in replacement tonnage for the ageing smaller sizes. Indeed, according to the latest MSI Horizon Monthly Containerships Report, the feeder ship orderbook for vessels up to 3,900....

📢 US forwarders are complaining of a lack of effort to improve supply chain resilience to prepare for a surge in traffic.

Cargo flows are fairly smooth, but forwarders are concerned that a spike in volumes will overwhelm the system again, and plunge the industry into a repeat of the congestion seen between late 2020 and spring last year.

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US forwarders warn peak volume rise will resurrect congestion US forwarders are complaining of a lack of effort to improve supply chain resilience to prepare for a surge in traffic. Cargo flows are fairly smooth, but forwarders are concerned that a spike in volumes will overwhelm the system again, and plunge the industry into a repeat of the congestion seen be...