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Port of Los Angeles Surpasses 10 Million TEU in 2025 - Marking the Third Time in History

Phaata

23-01-2026

Despite tariff headwinds, the Port of Los Angeles closed 2025 with a throughput of 10.2 million TEUs – crossing this milestone for the third time in its history.

Vienna Airport Sets New Air Cargo Record in 2025

Phaata

22-01-2026

With total throughput reaching a record 313,763 tonnes in 2025, Vienna Airport continues to affirm its position as a key logistics gateway for Central and Eastern Europe.

CMA CGM Scraps Red Sea Plans for Asia-Europe Trade; Xeneta Warns of Supply Chain Unpredictability

Phaata

21-01-2026

CMA CGM has announced a return to Cape of Good Hope routings for Asia-Europe trades, reversing its recent decision to transit the Red Sea. Experts from Xeneta warn that this constant shifting creates instability for shippers, eroding trust in schedule reliability and increasing inventory management risks.

Pre-Lunar New Year Air Freight Peak: Shippers Urged to Book Early

Phaata

21-01-2026

Ahead of the Lunar New Year (February 17), leading freight forwarders such as Scan Global Logistics and Dachser are collectively warning shippers to book 1-2 weeks in advance. Extended factory closures and airline flight cuts are expected to cause severe capacity shortages across Asia.

Surging India-Iran Air Freight: Risk of 'Collateral Damage' from Proposed US 25% Tariffs

Phaata

20-01-2026

Air cargo volumes from India to Iran have surged nearly 200% over the past five years. However, this growth momentum faces significant challenges as US President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose a 25% tariff on Iran’s trading partners threatens to disrupt this burgeoning supply chain.

International Shipping and Logistics Market Update Week 3/2026 | Phaata

Phaata

19-01-2026

The international logistics marketplace platform Phaata provides an update on the international container shipping and logistics market for routes from Asia to North America, Europe, and more for Week 3 (from January 12 - 18), 2026.

Global Tanker Market Forecast 2026

Phaata

19-01-2026

Tim Smith, an expert from MSI, assesses that the tanker market enters 2026 on a solid footing driven by geopolitical instability and surging oil production. However, the wave of newbuilding deliveries commencing this year could exert pressure to reverse market trends in the 2027–2028 period.

Red Sea Restart: Signaling Lower Rates for Asia-US Shippers

Phaata

18-01-2026

Maersk’s decision to resume services via the Red Sea could release 6-8% of global shipping capacity, creating significant downward pressure on freight rates for Asia-US shippers as the market enters a crucial contract negotiation phase.

Wan Hai and Interasia Restructure NS5 Service and Launch New TVS Service Connecting Southeast Asia

Phaata

17-01-2026

Wan Hai Lines and Interasia Lines have announced plans to modify the NS5 service route starting next month, adding calls at Phuoc An (Vietnam) and Chiba (Japan). Simultaneously, the carriers are launching a new service, TVS, connecting Taiwan with key Southeast Asian ports.

CULines launches new services to Southeast Asia and Brazil

Phaata

02-07-2021

CULines - a Chinese container shipping company - will expand three new services to Southeast Asia and Brazil in July.

The schedule reliability of the world's shipping vessels is quite poor - Sea-Intelligence

Phaata

01-07-2021

According to the latest report by Sea-Intelligence, the reliability of shipping schedules worldwide is quite poor, as some ports and regions have been severely affected by port congestion.

Shippers have paid ridiculous fees, but their shipments are still being rolled and carriers want to collect more

Phaata

28-06-2021

Although the massively increased rates include a premium fee, to ensure that container equipment and space are available, some shippers complain that their cargo was still rolled.

Congestion at US West Coast ports will get worse before it improves

Phaata

25-06-2021

Congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on the US West Coast is expected to worsen in the coming months as imports increase rapidly.

Yantian Port is back to normal, but container backlog will take weeks to clear

Phaata

24-06-2021

Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) said it would return to normal operations on June 24, after weeks of disruption due to the Covid-19 outbreak among people coming to work at the port.

DSV Panalpina becomes world's largest forwarder after acquiring Agility

Phaata

23-06-2021

When the takeover of Agility GIL is completed, DSV Panalpina will become the world's largest freight forwarder by air freight and sea freight revenue, according to new analysis from Transport Intelligence ( Ti).

Container shortages in Chinese ports worsen as more vessels skip

Phaata

21-06-2021

Empty container shortages at China's southern ports continue to worsen as carriers skip shipments due to a wave of Covid-19 outbreaks in Guangzhou province.

Home Depot charters container ships to solve supply chain bottlenecks

Phaata

17-06-2021

As congestion, container shipping shortages continue to worsen, and freight rates soar, US retailer Home Depot has taken the bold step of chartering its own container ship.